Deleuze and Guattari

The philosopher Giles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst and political activistFelix Guattari have been recognised as among the most important intellectualfigures of... » 

The philosopher Giles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst and political activistFelix Guattari have been recognised as among the most important intellectualfigures of their generation. This is the first booklength study of their worksin English one that provides an overview of their thought and of its bearingon the central issues of contemporary literary criticism and theory. FromDeleuzes philosophy of difference to Deleuze and Guattaris philosophy ofschizoanalytic desire this study traces the ideas of the two writers across awide range of disciplines from psychoanalysis and Marxist politics tosemiotics aesthetics and linguistics. Professor Bogue provides lucid readingsaccessible to specialist and nonspecialist alike of several major worksDeleuzes Nietzsche and Philosophy 1962 Difference and Reception 1968 andDeleuze and Guattaris AntiOedipus 1972 and A Thousand Plateaus 1980.Besides elucidating the basic structure of Deleuze and Guattaris oftendifficult thought with its complex and often puzzling array of terms thisstudy also shows how theory influences critical practice in their analyses ofthe fiction of Proust SacherMasoch a «