Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Critical Introductions and Guides) - Hardcover

Adkins, Brent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748686452 ISBN 13: 9780748686452

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is an assemblage? What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? What is becoming-animal? Brent Adkins demonstrates that all the questions raised by A Thousand Plateaus are in service to Deleuze and Guattari's radical reconstruction of the methods and aims of philosophy itself.

To achieve this he argues that the crucial term for understanding A Thousand Plateaus is 'assemblage.' An assemblage is Deleuze and Guattari's answer to the perennial philosophical question, "What is a thing?" and they assert that assemblages are always found on a continuum between stasis and change. Each plateau is therefore concerned with a particular type of assemblage (e.g. social, political, linguistic) and its tendencies toward both stasis and change.

About this title

About the Author:

Brent Adkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Roanoke College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0748686452
• ISBN 13: 9780748686452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272