Gilles Grelet (French: [gʁəlɛ]) 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.[1]
Thought
editGrelet's theory of rebellion draws most conspicuously on the work of Guy Lardreau and Christian Jambet, whose 1976 jointly authored book L'Ange[2] marries Lacanian psychoanalysis and Maoism.
Aside from his published writings, Grelet has collaborated with French underground filmmakers Dojo Cinéma.[3]
He co-founded with François Laruelle and Ray Brassier a book collection, Nous, les sans philosophie,[4] 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."[5]
References
edit- ^ Gilles Grelet, Theory of the Solitary Sailor (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022)
- ^ Lardreau, Guy and Jambet, Christian, L'Ange : ontologie de la Révolution, tome 1 (Paris: Grasset, 1976).
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Livres".
- ^ Erkan, Ekin (Spring 2019). "François Laruelle. A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities" (PDF). Cincinnati Romance Review. 46: 119–23. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
Bibliography
editOriginal works
edit- Déclarer la gnose. D'une guerre qui revient à la culture (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002).
Co-authored works
edit- Citations pour le Président Sarkozy, with illustrations by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa (Montreuil: Editions Matière, 2009).
- Le théorisme, méthode de salut public/Faible passion du réel, with illustrations by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa (Montreuil: Editions Matière, 2006).
- Discipline hérétique, with François Laruelle, Danilo de Almeida and Tony Brachet (Paris: Kimé, 1999).
Edited works
edit- Théorie-rébellion. Un ultimatum (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005). (Includes contributions from Jason Barker, Ray Brassier, Oliver Feltham and François Laruelle).