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A N G E L A K I journal of the theoretical humanities volume 8 number 2 august 2003 introduction peter hallward Born in Algiers in 1949, Christian Jambet specialises in Islamic philosophy. He emerged in the late 1970s as the most brilliant of Henry Corbin’s students, and has now taught philoso- phy for many years at the lycée Jules Ferry, at the Institut d’Études Iraniennes (University of Paris III) and the École Pratique des Hautes christian jambet Études. Influenced by Mao and Lacan, the trans- lator of Rumi and Oscar Wilde, an attentive reader of Foucault, Deleuze, and Badiou, Jambet’s range of interests makes mainstream translated by andrew asibong work in comparative philosophy look positively parochial. Whatever its immediate occasion, a genuine “philosophical act takes place when its SOME COMMENTS ON subjects overturn their conception of the world,” when, breaking with prejudice or habit, they THE QUESTION OF devise ways of thinking along lines indifferent to THE ONE all received representations of the world. Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge or opin- ion, it is not a matter of internalising “correct” immediate occasion for his early collaborative ideas: it is a reflexive work of transformation writings with Guy Lardreau. The uncompromis- applied upon oneself, an entering into “discord ing or “angelic” theory of subjectivity developed with oneself” so as to accord with a way of think- in their books L’Ange (1976) and Le Monde ing that holds, in principle, for anyone at all.1 (1978) is designed to preserve a purely revolu- As a student, inspired by the events surround- tionary commitment, one that is both irreducible in