A Thousand Plateaus (1980) is a book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. It forms the second part of their Capitalism and Schizophrenia duo (the first part being Anti-Œdipus). This book is written as a series of "plateaus", a concept derived from Gregory Bateson, each identified by a particular date and title. The date refers to a peculiar age or date in which the state described in each plateau had a central role in the world. The book's free-wheeling organization reflects its thesis that thought and being unfold in non-hierarchical, rhizomic ways. The Philosopher (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a study that includes various diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. ... Gilles Deleuze (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995 (pron. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Pierre-Félix Guattari (1930 - 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy. ... Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a two-volume theoretical work by the French authors Deleuze and Guattari. ... Anti-Å’dipus (1972) is a book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. ... In geology and earth science, a plateau (also tableland, plâteau) is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat open country if the uplift was recent in geologic history. ... Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904–4 July 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. ...

See also

• Plane of immanence