Theory of the Solitary Sailor

Gilles Grelet

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Urbanomic Media Ltd
08 November 2022

Philosophy

Series: Urbanomic / Mono

Grelet's solitary sailor is a radical theoretical figure, herald angel of an existential rebellion against the world and against philosophy's world-thought.

Grelet's solitary sailor is a radical theoretical figure, herald angel of an existential rebellion against the world and against philosophy's world-thought.

Over a decade ago, Gilles Grelet left the city to live permanently on the sea, in silence and solitude, with no plans to return to land, rarely leaving his boat Theor me. An act of radical refusal, a process of undoing one by one the ties that attach humans to the world, for Grelet this departure was also inseparable from an ongoing campaign of anti-philosophy. Like Fran ois Laruelle's ""ordinary man"" or Rousseau's ""solitary walker,"" Grelet's solitary sailor is a radical theoretical figure, herald angel of an existential rebellion against the world and against philosophy's world-thought, point zero of an anti-philosophy as rigorous gnosis, and apprentice in the herethics of navigation.

More than a set of scattered reflections, less than a system of thought, Theory of the Solitary Sailor is a gnostic device. It answers the supposed necessity of realizing the world-thought that is philosophy (or whatever takes its place) with a steadfast and melancholeric refusal. As indifferently serene and implacably violent as the ocean itself, devastating for the sufficiency of the world and the reign of semblance, this is a lived anti-philosophy, a perpetual assault waged from the waters off the coast of Brittany, amid sea and wind.

By: Gilles Grelet
Imprint: Urbanomic Media Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm,
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781913029968
ISBN 10: 1913029964
Series: Urbanomic / Mono
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 08 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Formerly a skipper and trainer of sailing instructors in the Glenan Islands, Gilles Grelet has lived aboard his boat since 2010. He is the author of Declarer la gnose- D'une guerre qui revient la culture, Le theorisme, methode de salut public, and Citations pour le president Sarkozy (with Juan Perez Agirregoikoa), and editor of the collection Theorie-rebellion- Un ultimatum.

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"""Imagine a system manual, with cryptic, occasionally humorous pronouncements among severe maxims about the life of the mind on a boat, and you have an idea of this book. What does it really mean for the mind to be at sea? How does sailing work as a genuine practice of thought […] not simply a metaphor or analogy for thought?"" —Ben Carver, European Review of Books"

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