Félix Guattari
Félix Guattari | |
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| Born | Pierre-Félix Guattari 30 March 1930 Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France |
| Died | 29 August 1992 (aged 62) La Borde Clinic, Cour-Cheverny, France |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Influences | Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Lacan, R. D. Laing, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, post-Marxism, post-structuralism, |
| Institutions | University of Paris VIII |
| Main interests | Psychoanalysis, Marxist philosophy, political philosophy, semiotics |
| Notable ideas | Assemblage, desiring-production, deterritorialization, ecosophy, schizoanalysis |
| Influenced | Gilles Deleuze, Brian Massumi, Antonio Negri, Bryan Reynolds, Michael Hardt, Nick Land, Marcella Althaus-Reid |
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Pierre-Félix Guattari (/ɡwəˈtɑːri/ gwə-TAR-ee; French: [pjɛʁ feliks ɡwataʁi] ⓘ; 30 March 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and created ecosophy independently of Arne Næss. He has become best known for his literary and philosophical collaborations with Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of their theoretical work Capitalism and Schizophrenia.