Summary
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia 2
A Thousand Plateaus (1980), is the second volume of the work Capitalism and Schizophrenia, written in collaboration by the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It is undoubtedly their most significant political book in which they presented their original understanding of pluralism. Capitalism and Schizophrenia presents a double critique of Marx and Freud. The first volume (Anti-Oedipus) was more about Freud. By establishing a field of experiment in which the individual becomes autonomous and invisible, A Thousand Plateaus enables the renewal of a large part of political theory, especially Marxist thought. It is about the idea that time or creation consists of channels of flow, paths of release and influence on oneself, whereby individuals in a whole depersonalize each other and singularize each other. This is exactly what happened to Deleuze and Guattari.
"It is about one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century in a translation that brilliantly performed a very difficult task [and which] should also be considered a philosophical act.
In the collaboration of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, philosophers and psychiatrists, [...] there were created [theoretical] works, new problems and new terminology that deeply marked contemporary philosophy. [They] also expanded the area for performing the first tasks of philosophy: analysis. Their approach is the so-called radical horizontality, the rejection of hierarchical thinking and [an attempt in which] they try to think of processes: formation, corporeality, and above all desire as social desire. In a metaphorical reduction: they do not use the paradigm of a tree with deep roots and a tall crown. "
- from the review of Nadezhda Čačinovič (1925–1995) from the early sixties of the twentieth century until his death, he wrote many influential works in the fields of philosophy, literature, film, and applied arts. He is best known precisely for his collaboration with Gilles Deleuze on the books Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy?
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