sentences:  He put forward such a conception, at first as a means to understand from the inside some important aspects of Chinese thought, and later for its own sake.He sketched it out in a philosophical essay titled "Un Paradigme "("A Paradigm"), published in 2012, and elaborated it further in his "Esquisses "("Sketches") in 2016.This second essay discusses the political significance of his conception of the subject.