Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis
by Eugene Holland

Hardcover: 161 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 4, 1999)

Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University
"Holland admirably faces the challenge of opening up Deleuze and Guattari's notoriously difficult Anti-Oedipus not only to newcomers, but also to experienced readers of their works, who will thereby benefit enormously from the clarity and rigor of Holland's study."!

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STRONG 'Holland's introduction ... is suitable both for those who are reluctant to begin /STRONG EM Anti-Oedipus /EM STRONG due to its notorious reputation for complexity, and for those who are, even after four hundred pages of reading, not certain of its key concept. Holland states that his aim will have been achieved if readers want to turn to /STRONG EM Anti-Oedipus /EM STRONG after reading his introduction ... [if so] the book has admirably reached its aim not only at the end of the book but also at the end of every chapter.' /STRONG - EM Psychoanalytical Studies /EM

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Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire

Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire
(Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
by Philip Goodchild

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd (December 23, 1996)

Both accessible and definitive, Deleuze and Guattari provides a critical examination of the writing of two notoriously difficult thinkers. This important introduction is divided into three sections--knowledge, power, and desire--and provides a systematic account of the intellectual context as well as an exhaustive analysis of the key themes informing Deleuze and Guattari's work. Providing a framework for reading the important and influential study Capitalism and Schizophrenia, this volume is attentive to the needs of the student by providing a lexicon of the difficult ideas used in Deleuze and Guattari's discussion of philosophy, art, and politics. Deleuze and Guattari is an important addition to the critical literature on some of the most challenging work in recent social theory. It will be the standard introduction to Deleuze and Guattari for students of philosophy and social theory.

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Deleuze & Guattari - What Is Philosophy?

What Is Philosophy? (Paperback)
by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari

# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Columbia University Press; New Ed edition (April 15, 1996)

Philosophy, according to the authors, is the only study that is concerned with the creation of concepts, which distinguishes it from science, logic, and art. To support this thesis, the authors discuss the nature of these disciplines and the thought of a wide spectrum of philosophers, from Plato to Foucault. Unfortunately, singular insights are buried in a text so dense with metaphor and figurative language (e.g., "the plane of immanence," "conceptual personae") that it is impossible to decide whether they have argued their case successfully or even whether they have made their thesis fully intelligible. For academic libraries collecting these authors and continental philosophy.
Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Mgt. Lib., Washington, D.C.

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Deleuze & Guattari - Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Preface by Michel Foucault
Translated by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane

The authors combine elements of the work of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche to develop a political analysis of desire as it is repressed or expressed in Western culture.

"This is a major philosophical work, by perhaps the most brilliant philosophical mind at work in France today. It is both trendy and technically difficult; it has an interesting cross-resonance with the American counter-culture. There are brilliant and suggestive treatments here of the psychological subject, fascism, repression, collective fantasy, which are quite unequalled elsewhere." —Fredric Jameson

"This book must be read, regardless of its style and complexity. It is relevant to about every sociological orientation, not only within Marxism, and to every specialty within our discipline." —Contemporary Sociology

"Anti-Oedipus, more than any other intersection of Marx and Freud, renders palpable the metaphor of the unconscious as a worker, and does it in a brilliant, appropriately nutty way." —New Republic

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