Theory of the solitary sailor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grelet, Gilles.

Series:

Urbanomic / Mono

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grelet, Gilles, 1971-.

Grelet, Gilles.

Philosophy.

Sailing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (100 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Urbanomic, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Cover

Epigraph

Notice

Dedication

Canon of Circumscription: The Deepest Secret of Humanity (Anti-Politics)

Organon of Sailing: To Traverse and Allow Yourself to be Traversed (Anti-Erotics)

Coda

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Grelet, Gilles Theory of the Solitary Sailor

ISBN:

9781913029166

OCLC:

1343247481