Gilles Grelet () is a French theorist and former student of the French philosopher

François Laruelle François Laruelle (; ; born 22 August 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly of the Collège international de philosophie and the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Laruelle has been publishing since the early 1970s and now has around twenty b ...

. He is the author of books and pamphlets which develop the main tenets of Laruellean

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. Following years of teaching, he lives as a sailor.

Thought

Grelet's theory of rebellion draws most conspicuously on the work of Guy Lardreau and Christian Jambet, whose 1976 jointly authored book ''L'Ange'' marries

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and

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. Aside from his published writings, Grelet has collaborated with French underground

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He co-founded with

and

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a book collection, Nous, les sans philosophie, published by L'Harmattan, comprising key works by exponents of Laruelle's non-standard matrix of theory (

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, 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 " is mirthless to seek a revolutionary ethos in Laruelle – his critique solely provides us with the appropriate tools and

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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."

References

Bibliography

Original works

''Déclarer la gnose. D'une guerre qui revient à la culture''
(Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002).

Co-authored works

with illustrations by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa (Montreuil: Editions Matière, 2009).

with illustrations by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa (Montreuil: Editions Matière, 2006).
''Discipline hérétique''
with

, Danilo de Almeida and Tony Brachet (Paris: Kimé, 1999).

Edited works

''Théorie-rébellion. Un ultimatum''
(Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005). (Includes contributions from

Jason Barker Jason Barker (born 1971) is a British theorist of contemporary French philosophy, a film director, screenwriter and producer. He is a professor of cultural studies at Kyung Hee University in the Graduate School of British and American Language an ...

Oliver Feltham Oliver Feltham is an Australian philosopher and translator working in Paris, France. He is known primarily for his English translations of Alain Badiou, most notably Badiou’s magnum opus ''Being and Event'' (2006).François Laruelle François Laruelle (; ; born 22 August 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly of the Collège international de philosophie and the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Laruelle has been publishing since the early 1970s and now has around twenty b ...

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