Gilles Deleuze
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia -- Gilles Deleuze - Paperback
An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and F lix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.
Author: Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.40w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780143105824
Age Range: 18-UP
Author: Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.40w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780143105824
Age Range: 18-UP
About the Author
Gilles Deleuze was a prolific French philosopher and author of 25 books. A self-described pure metaphysician, he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and was known for a style that forced readers to reevaluate their philosophical assumptions. Deleuze, along with close friend and colleague Feliz Guattari, wrote a two-volume work on anti-psychoanalytic social philosophy called Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The first volume, Anti-Oedipus, is their best-known work.
At the time of his death in June 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the Collège de France. Foucault was the first public figure in France to die from HIV/AIDS.
Mark Seem is a philosophical writer and translator. His work includes Anti-Oedipus, the first of the two-volume work Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Robert Hurley is a translator whose credits include translating the work of French philosophers Michael Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Clastres, and Georges Bataille.