Abstract

If scholarly publications gain critical attention either through popularity or resistance among broad circles of the educated public, then Anti-Oedipus (subtitle: Capitalism and Schizophrenia), first published in Paris in 1972, has earned this even in Germany—despite the fact that it was translated only recently. Of course, sales of the volume have not been enormous: the influence of the French “new philosophy” is primarily restricted to fan-clubs and marginal groups around universities. It is also unpromising that almost everyone dealing with philosophy or psychoanalysis either as a profession or avocation is likely to dismiss Foucault's resounding acclaim for Deleuze: “A lightning bearing the name of Deleuze has struck: a new thought has become possible; thinking the new is once more possible.