Gilles Grelet


Gilles Grelet is a French theorist and former student of the French philosopher François Laruelle. He is the author of books and pamphlets which develop the main tenets of Laruellean non-philosophy. 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 Lacanian psychoanalysis and Maoism.
Aside from his published writings, Grelet has collaborated with French underground filmmakers .
He as co-founded, with François Laruelle and Ray Brassier a book collection, "we, ones without philosophy", published by L'Harmattan, where are edited the key authors whose thought takes place near Laruelle's non-standard matrix of theory.
Laruellean scholar Ekin Erkan details the Marxist/political praxis of an amalgam of François Laruelle's students, noting that "t is mirthless to seek a revolutionary ethos in Laruelle – his critique solely provides us with the appropriate tools and 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."

Original works