Félix Guattari

Félix Guattari
Born
Pierre-Félix Guattari

(1930-03-30)30 March 1930
Died29 August 1992(1992-08-29) (aged 62)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Paris
InfluencesSigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Lacan, R. D. Laing, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze
Academic work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School or traditionContinental philosophy, psychoanalysis, post-Marxism, post-structuralism,
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris VIII
Main interestsPsychoanalysis, Marxist philosophy, political philosophy, semiotics
Notable ideasAssemblage, desiring-production, deterritorialization, ecosophy, schizoanalysis
InfluencedGilles Deleuze, Brian Massumi, Antonio Negri, Bryan Reynolds, Michael Hardt, Nick Land, Marcella Althaus-Reid

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.