Deleuze and Guattari

Short description: Collaboration between two French intellectuals (1972–1991)

Gilles Deleuze, a French philosopher, and Félix Guattari, a French psychoanalyst and political activist, wrote a number of works together. Their conjoint works included Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, and What Is Philosophy?

## Contents

* 1 Publications
* 1.1 Capitalism and Schizophrenia
* 1.2 Kafka
* 1.3 Nomadology : The war machine
* 1.4 What is Philosophy?
* 2 Personal/political
* 3 Criticisms
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading
* 7 External links

## Publications

### Capitalism and Schizophrenia

A two volume work, consisting of Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), Capitalism and Schizophrenia was an influential success; and, with its critique of psychoanalytic conformity,[1] marked a significant step in the evolution of post-structuralism.[2] Its emphasis on the nomadic nature of knowledge and identity, as seen for example in the authors' stress on the continuities between the human and the animal,[3][4] also places it among the formative texts of postmodernism. Stark and Laurie argue that Anti-Oedipus also "responded to the failures of Marxist revolutionary movements to purge themselves of the vices they were seeking to overthrow, including prejudice, dogmatism, nationalism and hierarchies of power".[5]

Foucault in his preface to the first volume called it "a book of ethics, the first book of ethics to be written in France in quite a long time".[6] Fredric Jameson praised it for re-introducing the flux of history into the static world of structuralism.[7]

The book's celebration of the anoedipal has also been seen as sketching a strategy for survival under the capitalism of late modernity.[8]

### Kafka

Unhappy with the treatment of Franz Kafka’s work by scholars, Deleuze and Guattari wrote Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature in order to attack previous analyses of Kafka which they saw as limiting him either "by oedipalizing and relating him to mother-father narratives—or by trying to limit him to theological-metaphysical speculation to the detriment of all the political, ethical, and ideological dimensions that run through his work".[9]

Published in 1975, their book sought to enter Kafka’s works through deliberately imprecise analytical modes such as flow and intensity,[10] without the unnecessary burden of the type of analysis that relates works to past or existing categories of genre, type, mode, or style. The latter sort of analysis is related to what Deleuze and Guattari would call the "Major" or dominant literature, out of which they see Kafka emerging as a voice of a marginalized, minority people re-appropriating the major language for his own purposes, and stressing collective forces over the individual "literary master".[11]

### Nomadology : The war machine

This work, published in English translation in 1986 and included in the English translation of A Thousand Plateaus in 1987,[12] originally appeared in French as Traité de nomadologie : La machine de guerre.[13]

### What is Philosophy?

Deleuze and Guattari also wrote What Is Philosophy? (1991) together. The work draws from David Hume in order to construct a view of philosophy as both based on experience and a quasi-virtual world.[14]

## Personal/political

Guattari has described how his collaboration with Deleuze arose out of the aftermath of the May 1968 events in France, as well as the additional energy generated in his writings by the collaboration.[15]

## Criticisms

In addition to criticisms of contemporary misapplications of Deleuze and Guattari's ideas,[16] philosophical critiques have been made of Deleuze and Guattari's anti-Hegelianism[17] and their "fraternal" imaginaries.[18] Commenting on the relationship between anthropology and politics in Anti-Oedipus, Timothy Laurie noted that "Deleuze and Guattari fall back on a methodological dogma that aligns femininity with reproduction and masculinity with politics and/or the primordial 'male bond'".[19]

## See also

* Anti-psychiatry
* Deterritorialization
* Rhizome
* Schizoanalysis

## References

1. ↑ Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) p. 385 and 414
2. ↑ J. Childers/G. Hentzi eds., The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (1995) p. 236-8
3. ↑ Bruce Boehrer, Shakespeare among the Animals (2002) p. 36 and p. 186
4. ↑ Laurie, Timothy (2015), "Becoming-Animal Is A Trap For Humans", Deleuze and the Non-Human, https://www.academia.edu/10912960 eds. Hannah Stark and Jon Roffe.
5. ↑ Laurie, Timothy and Stark, Hannah. 2012. "Reconsidering kinship: beyond the nuclear family with Deleuze and Guattari". Cultural Studies Review, vol. 18 no. 1, 20. URL: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/1612
6. ↑ Quoted in G. Gutting ed., The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (2003) p. 163
7. ↑ M. Hardt/K.Weeks eds., The Jameson Reader (2000) p. 179-80
8. ↑ Childers, p. 214 and p. 269
9. ↑ Bensmaia, Reda. "Foreword: The Kafka Effect." Foreword. Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 1975. Print.
10. ↑ Childers, p. 268
11. ↑ A. Parr, The Deleuze Dictionary (2005) p. 136
12. ↑ Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, Félix (1 September 2004). "Notes on the Translation and Acknowledgments". Thousand Plateaus. Continuum impacts. London: A&C Black. p. xx. ISBN 9780826476944. https://books.google.com/books?id=B9xLrS6mpGoC. Retrieved 13 April 2025. "Portions of this translation have appeared previously. 'Treatise on Nomadology' was published as a separate book entitled Nomad Machine (New York: Semiotext(e), 1986."
13. ↑ Organizing Metropolitan Space and Discourse. Liber Abstrakt. 2001. p. 213. ISBN 9789147062539. https://books.google.com/books?id=VKQbAQAAMAAJ. Retrieved 13 April 2025. "Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix (1986) Nomadology: The war machine. New York: Semiotext(e). [Original in French : Traite de nomadologie : La machine de guerre]."
14. ↑ E. Alliez, Signature of the World (2004) p. 88
15. ↑ F. Guattari, Chaosophy (1995) p. 27-31
16. ↑ Lambert, Gregg. 2006. Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? London: Continuum.
17. ↑ Malabou, Catherine. 1996. "Who's Afraid of Hegelian Wolves?" In Deleuze: A Critical Reader, edited by Paul Patton, 114-138. Oxford: Blackwell.
18. ↑ Jardine, Alice. 1985. Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
19. ↑ Laurie, Timothy (2012), "Epistemology as Politics and the Double-Bind of Border Thinking: Lévi-Strauss, Deleuze and Guattari, Mignolo", PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 9 (2): 1–20, https://www.academia.edu/2137504

## Further reading

* Gregg Lambert (2006) Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari?
* Perez, Rolando (1990) On An(archy) and Schizoanalysis, NY: Autonomedia

## External links

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Gilles Deleuze – Félix Guattari

Concepts and theories|

* Affect
* Arborescent
* Assemblage
* Body without organs
* Desiring-production
* Deterritorialization
* Difference
* Erewhon
* Event
* Haecceity
* Immanent evaluation
* Individuation
* Line of flight
* Minority
* Molar configuration
* Multiplicity
* Plane of immanence
* Reterritorialization
* Rhizome
* Schizoanalysis
* Societies of control
* Socius
* Subjectification
* Transcendental empiricism
* Univocity of being
* Virtual

Works by Deleuze and Guattari|

* Capitalism and Schizophrenia
* Anti-Oedipus
* A Thousand Plateaus
* Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature
* Rhizome
* Nomadology: The War Machine
* What is Philosophy?

Works by Deleuze|

* Empiricism and Subjectivity
* Nietzsche and Philosophy
* Kant's Critical Philosophy
* Proust and Signs
* Nietzsche
* Bergsonism
* Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty
* Difference and Repetition
* Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
* The Logic of Sense
* Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
* The Intellectuals and Power: A Discussion Between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault
* Dialogues2
* Superpositions
* Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
* Cinema 1: The Movement Image
* Cinema 2: The Time-Image
* Foucault
* The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
* Périclès et Verdi: La philosophie de Francois Châtelet
* Negotiations
* Essays Critical and Clinical
* Bartleby, la formula della creazione
* Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
* Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953-1974
* Two Regimes of Madness

Works by Guattari|

* Psychanalyse et transversalité
* Molecular Revolution
* Desire and Revolution
* L'inconscient machinique. Essais de Schizoanalyse
* L’intervention institutionnelle
* Les années d'hiver
* Pratique de l'institutionnel et politique
* Communists Like Us
* Molecular Revolution in Brazil
* The Three Ecologies
* Cartographies schizoanalytiques
* Chaosmose
* Chaosophy
* Soft Subversions
* The Guattari Reader
* The Anti-Œdipus Papers
* Chaos and Complexity

Related topics|

* L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze
* La Borde clinic
* A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

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