Fionnáin reviewed Anti-Oedipus by Felix Guattari
Review of 'Anti-Oedipus' on 'Import'
4 stars
An artistic analysis of capitalism, western philosophy, and psychoanalysis in the 20th Century. The authors' writing is at times playful, but often extremely dense, and this is one of the hardest books I have ever read for comprehension (marred also by the typos in this edition). The book is a study of inherent socio-psychological problems in capitalist systems, and forms a critique of western philosophy and Freudian psychoanalysis. To write in any detail about Anti-Oedipus is nearly impossible, as it is dense and brimming with ideas. Hard to recommend, because if the inaccessibility of language, but equally hard not to recommend, as one of the most important and influential philosophy books of the 20th Century.