First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

'... a highly useful volume, the kind of book one wants to have nearby while struggling through L'Anti-Oedipe or Mille Plateaux. - Harry Vandervlist, The Semiotic Review of Books

Part One: Deleuze Before Guattari 1. Deleuze's Nietzsche: Thought, Will to Power and the Eternal Return. 2. Two Exemplary Readings: Proust and Sacher-Masoch 3. The Grand Synthesis: Difference and Repetition and the Logic of Meaning. Part Two: Two Exemplary Readings: Proust and Sacher-Masoch 4. Anti-Oedipus: Nietzschean Desiring - Production and the History of Representation. 5. One Exemplary Reading: Kafka's Rhizomic Writing Machine. 6. The Grand Proliferation: Regimes of Signs and Abstract Machines in Thousand Plateaus.