Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A Reader's Guide

Holland, Eugene W.

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ISBN 10: 0826423027 ISBN 13: 9780826423023

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2013

A Thousand Plateaus is the engaging and influential second part of Capitalism andSchizophrenia, the remarkable collaborative project written by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. This hugely important text is a work of staggering complexity that made a major contribution to contemporary Continental philosophy, yet remains distinctly challenging for readers in a number of disciplines.
Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus': A Reader's Guide offers a concise and accessible introduction to this extremely important and yet challenging work. Written specifically to meet the needs of students coming to Deleuze and Guattari for the first time, the book offers guidance on:

- Philosophical and historical context
- Key themes
- Reading the text
- Reception and influence
- Further reading

L'autore:

Eugene W. Holland is Professor of French and Comparative Studies at Ohio State University, USA. His previous publications include Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis (Routledge 1999) and Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis (CUP, 1993).