Description: This book offers a clear and coherent analysis of Deleuze and Guattari's collaborations and argues that their work contains a distinct philosophical methodology that is designed to express the transformative nature of reality.
Brief description: Edward Thornton is a researcher and historian of philosophy whose work concerns the broad question of how different systems of thought interact with power. He has special interests in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the history of Institutional Psychotherapy. Recently he has been investigating the burgeoning field of plant philosophy. He is the author of several journal articles including in Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Journal of Transcendental Philosophy, Hypatia and The European Legacy.
Review Quotes: A masterful genealogy of one of the leitmotifs of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy. Thornton demonstrates with lucidity and erudition the double genesis of the line of flight in the works of both Deleuze and Guattari, developing in the process a compelling reading of their work as a whole.--Henry Somers-Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London