Erwin Landrichter

The discomfort with the pathetic "I love you" is the same as with the word "relationship": the market of love in the Western world is loud enough to drown out essential aspects of love as they have manifested throughout history. François Jullien develops a concept of "intimacy" in contrast to that of love and the idea of a second, different love, even a second, different life, a "seconde vie," which can arise from detachment from the importance and concerns of the previous life. In a "de-coincidence" with the demands of the previous life, opportunities arise to perceive the "unheard." Jullien's theories have been translated into many languages in their individual elaborations. Their connection in this volume makes the fundamental outline and inner coherence of Jullien's thought recognizable.