On the Universal: The Uniform, the Common and Dialogue Between CulturesFran ois Jullien, the leading philosopher and specialist in Chinese thought, has always aimed at building on inter cultural relations between China and the West. In this new book he focuses on the following questions: Do universal values exist? Is dialogue between cultures possible? To answer these questions, he retraces the history of the concept of the universal from its invention as an aspect of Roman citizenship, through its neutralization in the