What Is Philosophy? (Deleuze and Guattari book)

What is Philosophy?
Cover of the first edition
AuthorsGilles Deleuze
Félix Guattari
Original titleQu'est-ce que la philosophie?
TranslatorsHugh Tomlinson
Graham Burchell
LanguageFrench
SubjectsMetaphilosophy
Published
  • 1991 (Les éditions de Minuit, in French)
  • 1994 (Columbia University Press, in English)
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages256 (1996 Columbia University Press edition)
ISBN978-0231079891

What is Philosophy? (French: Qu'est-ce que la philosophie ?) is a 1991 book by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. The two had met shortly after May 1968 and collaborated most notably on Capitalism & Schizophrenia (Volume 1: Anti-Oedipus (1972); Volume 2: A Thousand Plateaus 1980) and Kafka: Towards a Minority Literature (1975). In this, the last book they co-signed, philosophy, science, and art are treated as three modes of thought.