A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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.

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This book is a door opener right up there with Michel Foucault and Kafka… a must read for all scholars in any field

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.

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

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.

An interesting work for anyone who is interested in indigenous methods and theory, and who is forced to cite western philosophers anyway.

Excellent condition. Delivered ahead of schedule. Perfect.