In 1972 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari publish Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, an assault on psychoanalysis and a theory of desire as production. The book, written out of May 1968's energies, is the French movement's most exuberant text and its bridge to the radical politics of the decade.
Tagged: Postmodernism
The Event
- Date
- 1972 (exact)
- Era
- The Structuralist Break; Standard periodization of postmodern history
- Location
- Paris; today Paris, France
- Traditions
- Postmodernism
- Streams
- Postmodernism
- Key figures
- Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
- Key texts
- Anti-Oedipus
Primary Sources
- Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. L'Anti-Œdipe. Paris: Minuit, 1972.
Secondary Sources
- Bertens, Hans. The Idea of the Postmodern: A History. London: Routledge, 1995.
- Hassan, Ihab. The Postmodern Turn. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987.
- Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 1988.
Provenance: HIST-1439; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-30.
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World View
Postmodernism
Postmodernism doubts every grand story that claims to explain everything; it treats truth as shaped by language, culture, and power rather than simply discovered.