Translation of: Mille plateaux, v. 2 of Capitalisme et schizophrénie.

A companion volume to Anti-Oedipus : capitalism and schizophrenia.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 579-585.

Translator's foreword: Pleasures of philosophy / Brian Massumi;
1. Introduction: Rhizome;
2. 1914: One or several wolves?;
3. 10,000 BC: The geology of morals (who does the Earth think it is?);
4. November 20, 1923: Postulates of linguistics;
5. 587 BC AD 70: On several regimes of signs;
6. November 28, 1947: How do you make yourself a body without organs;
7. Year zero: Faciality;
8. 1874: Three novellas, or "what happened?";
9. 1933: Micropolitics and segmentality;
10. 1730: Becoming-intense, becoming-animal, becoming imperceptible ... ;
11. 1837: Of the refrain;
12. 1227: Treatise on nomadology the war machine;
13. 7000 BC: Apparatus of capture;
14. 1440: The smooth and the striated;
15. Conclusion: Concrete rules and abstract machines.

A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important place at the center of the debate reassessing the works of Freud and Marx, advancing an approach that is neither Freudian nor Marxist but which learns from both to find an entirely new and radical path. It presents an attempt to pioneer a variety of social and psychological analyses free of the philosophical encumbrances criticized by postmodern writers. A Thousand Plateaus is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.