Description:
This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.
A Thousand Plateaus represents a whole new way of doing philosophy. This collection supports the critical reception of Deleuze and Guattari's text as one of the most important and influential works of modern theory.
Brief description: Henry Somers-Hall is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written extensively on Gilles Deleuze and the broader twentieth-century French philosophical tradition. He is the author of Hegel, Deleuze and the Critique of Representation (SUNY Press, 2012), Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and co-editor (with Daniel W. Smith) of The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (Cambridge University Press, 2012), (with Jeffrey A. Bell and James Williams) A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and (with Jeffrey A. Bell) The Deleuzian Mind (Routledge, 2025).
Review Quotes: Three of Deleuze and Guattari's foremost interpreters have assembled a fine and diverse collection of essays from prominent contemporary voices. This volume is at once comprehensive and provocative, exploring the many dimensions of one of the twentieth-century's most vital philosophical texts. For those not familiar with A Thousand Plateaus this collection is a great place to start; for those who've been reading Deleuze and Guattari for years, this will provide new directions for future reading-- "Claire Colebrook, Penn State University"