Publisher Description

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus is the first part of a two volume project entitled Capitalism and Schizophrenia.Challenging the twin orthodoxies of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Althusserian Marxism, Anti-Oedipus is an important and exciting, yet challenging piece of philosophical writing.

Ian Buchanan's Reader's Guide to Anti-
Oedipus is the ideal companion to one of the twentieth-century's most influential philosophical works.

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A guide to one of the most brilliant and influential philosophical works of the 20th century.

Author Biography

Ian Buchanan is Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2nd edition, 2018) and the founding editor of the international journal Deleuze and Guattari Studies.

Table of Contents

1. Deleuze and Guattari in Context
2. Overview of Themes
3. Reading the Text
 i. The Desiring-Machines
 ii. Psychoanalysis and Familialism: The Holy Family
 iii. Savages, Barbarians, Civilised Men
 iv. Introduction to Schizoanalysis
4. Reception and Influence
Further Reading

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Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus is the first part of a two volume project entitled Capitalism and Schizophrenia.Challenging the twin orthodoxies of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Althusserian Marxism, Anti-Oedipus is an important and exciting, yet challenging piece of philosophical writing. Ian Buchanan's Reader's Guide to Anti- Oedipus is the ideal companion to one of the twentieth-century's most influential philosophical works. >

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