Summary
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari: What is philosophy?
Twenty years after the revolutionary Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari have not lost any of their inspiring radicalism, they have only deepened it. Their book is a deep and careful examination of what could be labeled as a friend of philosophy, but it is also a devastating attack on the sterility of what is created when the only events of the exhibition and the only concepts are products that can be sold. Philosophy, they insist, is not contemplation, reflection or communication, but the creation of concepts.
Written with the energy and inventiveness that marked their earlier collaboration, What is
philosophy? is a great achievement. It is a vital book not only for philosophers, but for all those concerned with the usability of human intelligence at a time when, as the authors note, sales promotion has replaced criticism.
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