Gerard Larnac

Gerard Larnac is an essay writer, writer and French journalist born in 1960.

It opens, starting from the historical report of the bankruptcy of the reason during the XXe century (after Auschwitz, Hiroshima), of the new prospects on our report/ratio in the world. Mingling his accounts with voyages (N.R.F Gallimard) with philosophical tests, the author outlines a wandering thought around concept like that of Outside and meeting. Reality no longer like distrust but like occasion and hospitality. Its polemical test on the Police force of the Thought is a heavy load against the effect of than it calls " propaganda blanche" and the obliteration of the thought in the modern democracies. Inherited Kerouac as much as Hannah Arendt, but also inspired by the Eastern Masters, his work in margin of the institutions is an attempt buissonnière to release the spirit of its commonplaces, to propose the alternative of a true thought of the movement, in-alley. To think between the worlds: " I would like to treat our report/ratio with the pseudo-otherness of the world as with the emigrant one in the evening tells his native soil around the table commune".

Works

After Shoah - instrumental reason and cruelty (Ellipses, 1997).
the Temptation of the Outside - small test of wandering ontology (Ellipses, 1999).
the Police force of the thought - white propaganda and new world order (Harmattan, 2001).
the modernistic dazzling - changes of the glance through the contemporary art (CLM, 2004).
the Glance exchanged - a cultural history of visible (Pond & Martin, 2007).

Resources

Poetic in progress, the blog of the http://poetaille.over-blog.fr author

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