A Thousand Plateaus

A Thousand Plateaus
Cover of the first edition
AuthorsGilles Deleuze
Félix Guattari
Original titleMille plateaux
TranslatorBrian Massumi
LanguageFrench
SeriesCapitalism and Schizophrenia
Subject
Published
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages645 (French edition)
610 (English translation)
ISBN978-0816614028
Preceded byKafka: Toward a Minor Literature 
Followed byWhat is Philosophy? 

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: Mille plateaux) is a 1980 book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. It is the second and final volume of their collaborative work Capitalism and Schizophrenia. While the first volume, Anti-Oedipus (1972), was a critique of contemporary uses of psychoanalysis and Marxism, A Thousand Plateaus was developed as an experimental work of philosophy covering a far wider range of topics, serving as a "positive exercise" in what Deleuze and Guattari refer to as rhizomatic thought.[1]

  1. ^ Massumi, Brian (1987). "Translator's Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy". A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. xi.