"Step out of the Freudian theater of Hamlet and Oedipus, and step into the Deleuzian/Guattarian factory of desiring machines with this book that Foucault called, 'the introduction to the non-fascist life.'"
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 1983-10
Section Cultural & Critical Theory / All Staff Suggestions / Non-Fiction Suggestions / Carter L.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780816612253
When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.