""A valuable contribution to the field. The controversies he identifies are only going to become more deep-set in our increasingly multi-polar world, and given the current geo-political climate we need more than ever to agree on the role that universal Human Rights may play in an increasingly globalised world." LSE Review of Books "François ... Read moreJullien poses the question of dialogue between cultures in a way altogether different from the loose talk that tends to surround this topic, re-examining, in an insightful and rigorous fashion, the problem of the universal – an ambition hardly surprising in an author who is both a philosopher and a sinologist.  If there is a problem, explains Jullien, it is because the universal – that emblematic category of Western civilization, the source of its vitality for centuries – continues to be challenged and to find itself in opposition to the rights linked to the irreducible singularity of cultures ... Here we find a rich and agile thought, harvesting new ideas from philosophical tradition, drawing on a detailed knowledge of cultures and clearly interrogating the founding ideological moments of European civilization." Etudes: Revue de culture contemporaine Show Less