La Chine hors de la philosophie : essai de généalogie à partir des traditions sinologique et philosophique françaises au XIXe siècle

摘要

China out of philosophy. An attempted genealogy from the perspective of the French sinological and philosophical traditions in the 19th century During the 18th century, the intellectual tradition of China was listed among the materials collected to set up the past of philosophy. Nowadays, it has nearly disappeared altogether from this history. The article reviews the first decades of the French 19th century to focus on the beginnings of this evolution : when philosophy and sinology are instituted as sciences and standardize their contents as educational subjects, they settle for the first time the question of a " Chinese philosophy " at the crossroad of the two disciplines. The hypothesis is that the way we currently think out the problem has not evolved since then, and that we are still depending on notoriously outdated determinations, such as history and territory, nature and value of philosophy.