Like most of his theatrical pieces Félix Guattari's Parmenides is a brief but extremely
suggestive dialogue that brings life to his concerns about psychoanalysis semiotics the
history of philosophy and contemporary post-theatre. Edited by Gary Genosko and Carlos A.
Segovia this volume includes the facsimile edition of the original manuscript followed by its
transcription and its annotated translations into English German Spanish Japanese Polish
and Russian. Accompanying commentaries diagrams and studies of the text give an incredibly
in-depth analysis of Guattari's theatrical work and its significance to his wider body of
thought. Among these Gary Genosko highlights Guattari's engagement with dialogue and language
Carlos A. Segovia examines his elaboration on Greek mythology and Flore Gacin-Marrou looks at
Guattari's role as a playwright among his other literary work which ranged from screenplays to
novels. This volume also includes another of Guattari's short theatrical pieces Socrates
which was the only one of his plays to reach the stage and which expands on one of the book's
central themes in his dialogue with classical philosophy.
