Theory of the Solitary Sailor

Name: Theory of the Solitary Sailor
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By Gilles Grelet

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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 Théorème. 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 François 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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 128
Release Date:: 2022-08-09
Publication Date:: 2022-09-20
Publisher:: MIT Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1913029964
ISBN13:: 9781913029968
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 120 g
Height:: 112 cm
Width:: 172 cm
Thickness:: 12 cm

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