Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Penguin Classics)

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Penguin Classics)
by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze
Translator: Robert Hurley
Translator: Mark Seem
Introduction: Mark Seem
Translator: Helen Lane
Preface: Michel Foucault
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-26
ISBN: 0143105825
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Book Review: More Taxes! Less Bread!
Summary: 5 Stars

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus radically reconceieve the cartography of politics fused with a reconceptualization of desire, a desire that eschews and condemens Freud and Lacan's egregious transmogrification of what Deleuze and Guttari espouse its fundamentally positive nature. So the question that undergirds the text 'why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as thought it were their salvation?" posed by Reich and Spinoza because a diving board for Deleuze and Guattari as they excavate and render in new ways how the nature of desire has become directed towards socially sanctioned avenues, avenues that became conducive for the triumph of capitalism.

Summary of Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Penguin Classics)

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 Félix 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.

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