Theory of the Solitary Sailor

<b>Grelet's solitary sailor is a radical theoretical figure herald angel of an existential rebellion against the world and against philosophy's world-thought.</b><br><br>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 <i>Th&#233;or&#232;me</i>. 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&#231;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 <i>herethics</i> of navigation.<br><br>More than a set of scattered reflections less than a system of thought <i>Theory of the Solitary Sailor</i> 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.