A Thousand Plateaus

A Thousand Plateaus

Cover of the first edition
Authors	Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari
Original title	Mille plateaux
Translator	Brian Massumi
Language	French
Series	Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Subject	Philosophy schizoanalysis micropolitics aesthetics political economy
Published	1980 (Les Éditions de Minuit, in French) 1987 (University of Minnesota Press, in English)
Publication place	France
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages	645 (French edition) 610 (English translation)
ISBN	978-0816614028
Preceded by	Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
Followed by	What is Philosophy?

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: Mille plateaux) is a 1980 book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. It is the second and final volume of their collaborative work Capitalism and Schizophrenia. While the first volume, Anti-Oedipus (1972), was a critique of contemporary uses of psychoanalysis and Marxism, A Thousand Plateaus was developed as an experimental work of philosophy covering a far wider range of topics, serving as a "positive exercise" in what Deleuze and Guattari refer to as rhizomatic thought.^[1]