Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari?

Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, has been hailed as a major philosophical work. The collaboration of two of the most remarkable and influential minds of the twentieth century, it is a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. In Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari?, Gregg Lambert revisits this seminal work and re-evaluates Deleuze and Guattari's legacy in philosophy, literary criticism and cultural studies since the early 1980s. He argues that the project has suffered from being underappreciated and too hastily dismissed on the one hand and, on the other, too quickly assimilated to the objectives of other desires such as multi-culturalism or American identity politics. In the light of the limitations of this reception-history, Lambert offers a fresh, witty and intelligent evaluation of the project and its influences that promises to challenge the ways in which Deleuze and Guattari's controversial and remarkable project has been received. Book jacket.

Gregg Lambert is Chair of English at Syracuse University, USA