Guattari biography
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Félix Guattari
This is an introduction to the thought of the radical French thinker Félix Guattari.
Guattari's main works were published in the s and s. His background was in psychoanalysis -- he was trained by Lacan and he practised as a psychoanalyst for much of his life. He developed a distinctive psychoanalytic method informed always by his revolutionary politics.
Guattari was actively involved in numerous political movements, from Trotskyism to Autonomism, tackling ecological and sexual politics along the way. A true believer in collectivity, much of his work was written in collaboration, most famously with Gilles Deleuze.
This is also an introduction to key concepts such as schizoanalysis, transversality, a-signifying semiotics and various kinds of machine.
Gary Genosko is currently Canada Research Chair in Technoculture at Lakehead University in Canada. He is the author of several books on Felix Guattari, including Felix Guattari (Pluto, ).
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Félix Guattari
French psychoanalyst (–)
Félix Guattari | |
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| Born | Pierre-Félix Guattari ()30 March Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France |
| Died | 29 August () (aged&#;62) La Borde clinic, Cour-Cheverny, France |
| Alma&#;mater | University of Paris |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy, post-Marxism, Freudo-Marxism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism,[1][2]ecosophy |
| Institutions | University of Paris VIII |
Main interests | Psychoanalysis, Marxist philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of language, semiotics[1] |
Notable ideas | Assemblage, desiring-production, deterritorialization, ecosophy, schizoanalysis[1] |
Pierre-Félix Guattari (gwə-TAR-ee; French:[pjɛʁfeliksɡwataʁi]ⓘ; 30 March – 29 August ) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuz
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Deleuze and Guattari
Collaboration between two French intellectuals (–)
Gilles Deleuze, a French philosopher, and Félix Guattari, a French psychoanalyst and political activist, wrote a number of works tillsammans (besides both having distinguished independent careers).
Their conjoint works were Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, and What Is Philosophy?
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
[edit]A two volume work, consisting of Anti-Oedipus () and A Thousand Plateaus (), Capitalism and Schizophrenia was an influential success; and, with its critique of psychoanalytic conformity,[1] marked a significant step in the evolution of post-structuralism.[2] Its emphasis on the nomadic nature of knowledge and identity, as seen for example in the authors' stress on the continuities between the human and the animal,[3][4] also places it among the formative texts of postmodernism. kraftfull and Laurie argue that Anti-