- Paperback: 619 pages
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (1 Dec 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0816614024
- ISBN-13: 978-0816614028
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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"'A rare and remarkable book, which offers us a new metaphysics.' Times Literary Supplement"
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (works not included). Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Chapters: Anti-Œdipus, a Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Excerpt: Anti-dipus (1972) is a book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. It is the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the second volume being A Thousand Plateaus (1980). It presents an analysis of human psychology, economics, society, and history, showing how "primitive", "despotic", and "capitalist regimes" differ in their organization of production, inscription, and consumption. It describes how capitalism channels all desires through an axiomatic money-based economy, a form of organization that is abstract, rather than local or material. Michel Foucault, in its renowned preface, remarked how this works' primary focus is the fight against contemporary fascism. In the family, the young develop in a perverse relationship, wherein they learn to love the same person that beats and oppresses them. The family therefore constitutes the first cell of the fascist society, as they will carry this love for oppressive figures in their adult life. Deleuze and Guattari's book, in its analysis of the dynamics at work within a family, consist in the "tracking down of all varieties of fascism, from the enormous ones that surround and crush us to the petty ones that constitute the tyrannical bitterness of our everyday lives". Michel Foucault writes in the introduction, "...Anti-dipus is an introduction to the nonfascist life." Where capitalist society trains us to believe that desire equals lack and that the only way to meet our desires is to consume, Anti-dipus has a different take: desire does not come from lack, as in the Freudian understanding. On the contrary, desire is a productive force. "It is not a theater, but a factory". The opposition to the notion of lack is...
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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A Thousand Plateaus is an absolute necessity for any
serious reader of contemporary philosophy. Deleuze and
Guattari correctly predicted the intensification of the
stratification of "civilized society" by 1980; they also
presaged the World Wide Web and declared their deep
suspicions about any and all massive systems for networking
humankind before the web ever existed. Their anarchic call
for radical individual autonomy never sounded truer than now.
(A noteworthy additional book to seek from their giant
bibliography: Pierre Clastres' Society Against the State.)
serious reader of contemporary philosophy. Deleuze and
Guattari correctly predicted the intensification of the
stratification of "civilized society" by 1980; they also
presaged the World Wide Web and declared their deep
suspicions about any and all massive systems for networking
humankind before the web ever existed. Their anarchic call
for radical individual autonomy never sounded truer than now.
(A noteworthy additional book to seek from their giant
bibliography: Pierre Clastres' Society Against the State.)
26 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a profound book. But do not buy this edition. I have had two seperate copies that have had the same fault with the binding, and amazon have confirmed that it is a recurring problem with this edition's manufacture. The edition looks lovely but is of terrible quality.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a book that challenges traditional philosophy stylistically and conceptually. The creative terminology applied by D & G fits their Nietzschean strand of philosophical thought nicely, even when it becomes difficult to follow at times. Subjects varying from linguistics to psychoanalysis are covered in a refreshingly non-linear order. Together with Anti-Oedipus, this book can inspire.
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