A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze (PDF)

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A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important place at the center of the debate reassessing the works of Freud and Marx, advancing an approach that is neither Freudian nor Marxist but which learns from both to find an entirely new and radical path. It presents an attempt to pioneer a variety of social and psychological analyses free of the philosophical encumbrances criticized by postmodern writers. A Thousand Plateaus is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) also coauthored Anti-Oedipus and Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature. Among Deleuze’s other books are Essays Critical and Clinical, Foucault, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. All of these works are available from the University of Minnesota Press.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐shipping took a little longer, but a good read

⭐My first major in college was French linguistics almost 50 years ago and wrote my thesis on Marcel Proust. In the mean time, I read almost all the books by Jean-Paul Sartre. He was my hero when I was in college. Later on, I was hooked on Michel Foucault for 20 years or so, who led me to Deleuze’s works. Translating Deleuze into English is almost impossible, because there are so many concepts that can only be expressed in French, but “Thousand Plateus (which should have been plateaux, but it sounds funny in English) is very well translated and even comprehensible! I believe that the collaboration between Deleuze and Guatari has created one of the deepest synchronic-diachronic philosophical expression of the every aspect of philosophical life. You can start reading it from any chapter and and end in any place. Yet, you get the totality of what we are going through as “humans” at this point in our history. If you don’t read much philosophical works, this is a treat for your mind.

⭐Run lines, never plot a point. Be quick, even when standing still. Don’t bring out the General in you! :)The best thing about this book is that it is a rhizome containing plateaus of intensity. There is no beginning or end, start in the middle. Plug it into other machines, use caution, create your plane of consistency, see what you can get circulating.

⭐This is the kind of book you need to read with a notebook and highlighter and take the time to look into every single word and concept you’re not familiar with. A lot of it seems like downright gibberish but if you start to delve into systems theory and chemistry and linguistics and all the disciplines they tie in, you start to see it’s actually cogent and quite brilliant. But it’s almost infuriatingly inaccessible. And I’m fairly well read in philosophy, psychology, sociology, etc

⭐This is a dense, rich book, chock full of profoundly original ideas. If you like a challenge, and have not yet been stupefied by the edited-for-fifth-graders-fare that characterizes what usually passes for intellectual discourse in America, then read this or any other work by these authors. You will be able to feel your dendrites multiplying.

⭐Excellent

⭐As much as I hated reading it while in a graduate course, I’ve kept revisiting it over and over while writing my dissertation. A truly unique text that best explains, even in its dense and esoteric language, theory’s connections to the material world.

⭐Excellent condition. Delivered ahead of schedule. Perfect.

⭐I received the book in excellent condition. Very satisfied.

⭐Great, if challenging book. Enjoying collision of ideas with Meillasioux and even Zizek. The book, however, is too darn big and heavy. Needs a Kindle version, but that’s also deficient because you can’t scribble in the margins. Docked them a star just for this. A rhyzomatic problem evidently.

⭐Quality of pages are good. Easy to flick through and perfect background colour to read from. Unlike some books that are yellowish.But the spine could have been a bit stronger. Slightly on cheap side

⭐Made me think twice on this issue !

⭐thanksxxx

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