A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia - Softcover

Deleuze, Gilles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816614024 ISBN 13: 9780816614028

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1987

Synopsis

A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important place at the center of the debate reassessing the works of Freud and Marx, advancing an approach that is neither Freudian nor Marxist but which learns from both to find an entirely new and radical path. It presents an attempt to pioneer a variety of social and psychological analyses free of the philosophical encumbrances criticized by postmodern writers. A Thousand Plateaus is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.

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Review:

"'A rare and remarkable book, which offers us a new metaphysics.' Times Literary Supplement"

About the Author:

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Felix Guattari (1930-1992) also coauthored Anti-Oedipus and Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature. Among Deleuze's other books are Essays Critical and Clinical, Foucault, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. All of these works are available from the University of Minnesota Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0816614024
• ISBN 13: 9780816614028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 632