Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia [Paperback]

A Thousand Plateauscontinues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began inAnti-Oedipusand 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 Plateausis an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.

 Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) also coauthoredAnti-OedipusandKafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature. Among Deleuze’s other books areEssays Critical and Clinical,Foucault,The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque,Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, andCinema 2: The Time-Image. All of these works are available from the University of Minnesota Press.