Symphony No. 8 (Mahler) Symphony No. 8 (Mahler) The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major by Gustav Mahler is one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire. Because it requires huge instrumental and vocal forces it is frequently called the "Symphony of a Thousand", although the work is normally presented with far fewer than a thousand performers and the composer did not sanction that name. The work was composed in a single inspired burst, at Maiernigg in southern Austria in the summer of 1906. The last of Mahler's works that was premiered in his lifetime, the symphony was a critical and
A Thousand Plateaus does not". The philosopher Roger Scruton dismisses "A Thousand Plateaus" as "nonsense" and "unreadable". A Thousand Plateaus A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia () is a 1980 philosophy book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. The authors draw upon and discuss the work of a number of authors, including Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Wilhelm Reich. "A Thousand Plateaus" is written in a non-linear fashion, and the reader is invited to move among plateaux in any order. It is the second volume of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia", and the successor to "Anti-Oedipus" (1972). Before the