A two volume work, consisting of Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), Capitalism and Schizophrenia was an influential success; and, with its critique of psychoanalytic conformity,[1] marked a significant step in the evolution of post-structuralism.
[2] Its emphasis on the nomadic nature of knowledge and identity, as seen for example in the authors' stress on the continuities between the human and the animal,[3][4] also places it among the formative texts of postmodernism.
Stark and Laurie argue that Anti-Oedipus also "responded to the failures of Marxist revolutionary movements to purge themselves of the vices they were seeking to overthrow, including prejudice, dogmatism, nationalism and hierarchies of power".
[9] Published in 1975, their book sought to enter Kafka’s works through deliberately imprecise analytical modes such as flow and intensity,[10] without the unnecessary burden of the type of analysis that relates works to past or existing categories of genre, type, mode, or style.
together, which draws from David Hume in order to construct a view of philosophy as both based on experience and a quasi-virtual world.