Gilles Grelet
Gilles Grelet ({{IPA|fr|gʁəlɛ|lang}}) is a French theorist and former student of the French philosopher François Laruelle. He is the author of books and pamphlets which develop the main tenets of Laruellean non-philosophy. Following years of teaching, he now lives permanently at sea aboard his boat Théorème.Gilles Grelet, Theory of the Solitary Sailor (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022)
Thought
Grelet's theory of rebellion draws most conspicuously on the work of Guy Lardreau and Christian Jambet, whose 1976 jointly authored book L'AngeLardreau, Guy and Jambet, Christian, L'Ange : ontologie de la Révolution, tome 1 (Paris: Grasset, 1976). marries Lacanian psychoanalysis and Maoism.
Aside from his published writings, Grelet has collaborated with French underground filmmakers [https://web.archive.org/web/20080430084859/http://www.terater.net/dojocinema/ Dojo Cinéma].Une bonne manière de commencer, c'est de se donner un mythe, directed by Eric Banse, Laurent Bruel, Inigo Cabo, Hugues Choplin, Martin de Torcy, Rudolf di Stéfano, Gilles Grelet, Vincent Laisney, Clément Pelzer, Sol Suffern-Quirno. 2006.
He co-founded with François Laruelle and Ray Brassier a book collection, Nous, les sans philosophie,{{cite web | url=http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=result | title=Livres }} published by L'Harmattan, comprising key works by exponents of Laruelle's non-standard matrix of theory (Jacques Fradin, Hugues Choplin, Patrick Fontaine, Patrice Guillamaud...).
Laruellean scholar Ekin Erkan details the Marxist/political praxis of an amalgam of François Laruelle's students, noting that "[i]t is mirthless to seek a revolutionary ethos in Laruelle – his critique solely provides us with the appropriate tools and [ . . . ] the ethics with which to problematize philosophy. Laruelle’s contemporaries, such as his anarcho-Maoist student, Gilles Grelet, have weaponized Laruelle to radicalize non-philosophy and pose an antiphenomenological practice."{{cite journal |last1=Erkan |first1=Ekin |title=François Laruelle. A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities |journal=Cincinnati Romance Review |date=Spring 2019 |volume=46 |pages=119–23 |url=http://www.cromrev.com/current/R05-Erkan.pdf |accessdate=17 July 2019}}
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Bibliography
= Original works =
- [http://www.harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=5123 Déclarer la gnose. D'une guerre qui revient à la culture] (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002).
= Co-authored works =
- [http://www.matiere.org/citations_uk.html Citations pour le Président Sarkozy], with illustrations by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa (Montreuil: Editions Matière, 2009).
- [http://www.matiere.org/fpr_tsmp_uk.html Le théorisme, méthode de salut public/Faible passion du réel], with illustrations by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa (Montreuil: Editions Matière, 2006).
- [http://www.editionspetra.fr/ouvrage/50 Discipline hérétique], with François Laruelle, Danilo de Almeida and Tony Brachet (Paris: Kimé, 1999).
= Edited works =
- [http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=20036 Théorie-rébellion. Un ultimatum] (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005). (Includes contributions from Jason Barker, Ray Brassier, Oliver Feltham and François Laruelle).
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