A Thousand Plateaus is the engaging and influential second part of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 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
14 years from the publication of his
Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, Eugene Holland releases his reading of the second volume of
Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The virtues we have come to expect from his writing-which offer a richly informed and meticulous analysis of their subjects and forgo dazzling their readers in favor of giving them real and lucid insights and inspiration-once again emerge in this exceptional reading of Deleuze and Guattari's
A Thousand Plateaus. By selecting and regrouping 14 of the plateaus on the basis of the problems they raise-epistemological, ontological, anthropological, ethical and political-his original approach shows clearly the extent to which "a book of political philosophy" is also able to contain the entire Deleuzo-Guattarian "theory" in all its breadth and articulations. By contextualizing ATP in terms of time, themes, indebtedness and the influence it exercised on texts that came after it, Holland's book will be of immense value to students and professionals alike, becoming an indispensable guide to those who dare cross the challenging plateaus of the second volume of
Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
