What is Philosophy?

Deleuze and Guattari's last cooperation marks out the distinctive force of philosophy as the creation of concepts in contrast to its rivals. Let us be clear this is quite simply an extraordinary book! Sure it comes in for a lot of criticism particulary for the departures it makes from Capitalism and Schizophrenia. However it is perhaps the finest exemplification of why Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy is amoung the most important of the age. Essentially a manifesto for immanence in thought, nonhierachically affirmed as philosophy, science and art, 'What is Philosophy?' is an intoxicated bath in that very immanence. In the tradition of the finest moments of Spinoza, Schelling, Bergson etc, this book sweeps us off our feet, to create a positive conception of thought that provides a refreshing antidote to the pessimism of the concept we find throughout modern philosophy from Adorno to Derrida. The message is that thinking is as possible and urgent as ever. Read this book! No more important work of Philosophy has appeared in the 1990's!