This book has set the agenda for contemporary Continental philosophy, arguing for a new theory of radical democracy in politics and art. A Thousand Plateaus completes the landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which Deleuze and Guattari began with Anti-Oedipus.
Offers essays, interviews, and short texts that present a scope to Guattari's thinking from 1977 to 1985. This book provides interviews and essays on a range of topics including adolescence and Italy, dream analysis and schizo-analysis, Marcel Proust and Jimmy Carter, and autobiographical documents such as I Am an Idea-Thief and So What .
Features notes and journal entries that document Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's collaboration on their 1972 book, Anti-Oedipus. The papers reveal Guattari as an inventive, highly analytical, mathematically-minded conceptor, arguably one of the most prolific and enigmatic figures in philosophy and sociopolitical theory.
Is the first volume of the landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Together with the second volume, A Thousand Plateaus, it is widely regarded as the single most brilliant work of Continental philosophy of the last forty years.
This work examines what it means to be a philosopher and attacks the sterility of modern philosophy. Part One explores the nature and scope of philosophy and its relation to social and economic development. Part Two considers other forms of thought: science, art, literature and music.
Argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are the direct result of the expansion of a form of capitalism and that an ecosophical approach must be found which respects the differences between various living systems.
A collection of essays, which offer an introduction to Felix Guattari's theories of schizo-analysis : a process meant to replace Freudian interpretation with a more pragmatic, experimental, and collective approach rooted in reality.
A post-'68 psychoanalyst and philosopher visits a newly democratic Brazil in 1982. This work documents the conversations, discussions, and debates that arose during the trip. Through these exchanges, it cuts through to the shadowy practices of globalization gone awry and charts a revolution in practice.