The Logic of Sense
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The Logic of Sense (Logique du sens) is a 1969 book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. An exploration of meaning and meaninglessness, or "common sense" and "nonsense", it consists of a series of thirty-four paradoxes and an appendix that contains five previously published essays, including a brief overview of Deleuze's ontology entitled "Plato and the Simulacrum".
The book introduces Deleuze's philosophy of the event and of becoming and includes textual analyses of works by Lewis Carroll, Seneca, Pierre Klossowski, Michel Tournier, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Emile Zola and Sigmund Freud.
Michel Foucault said that The Logic of Sense "should be read as the boldest and most insolent of metaphysical treatises - on the simple condition that instead of denouncing metaphysics as the neglect of being, we force it to speak of extrabeing".
The English edition was translated by Mark Lester with Charles Stivale, and edited by Constantin V. Boundas.
TOC
Preface: From Lewis Carroll to the Stoics
First Series of Paradoxes of Pure Becoming
Second Series of Paradoxes of Surface Effects
Third Series of the Proposition
Fourth Series of Dualities
Fifth Series of Sense
Sixth Series on Serialization
Seventh Series of Esoteric Words
Eighth Series of Structure
Ninth Series of the Problematic
Tenth Series of the Ideal Game
Eleventh Series of Nonsense
Twelfth Series of the Paradox
Thirteenth Series of the Schizophrenic and the Little Girl
Fourteenth Series of Double Causality
Fifteenth Series of Singularities
Sixteenth Series of the Static Ontological Genesis
Seventeenth Series of the Static Logical Genesis
Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers
Nineteenth Series of Humor
Twentieth Series on the Moral Problem in Stoic Philosophy
Twenty-First Series of the Event
Twenty-Second Series -- Porcelain and Volcano
Twenty Third Series of the Aion
Twenty Fourth Series of the Communication of Events
Twenty Fifth Series of Univocity
Twenty-Sixth Series of Language
Twenty-Seventh Series of Orality
Twenty-Eight Series of Sexuality
Twenty-Ninth Series -- Good Intentiosn are Inevitably Punished
Thirtieth Series of Phantasm
Thirty-First Series of Thought
Thirty-Second Series on the Different Kinds of Series
Thirty-Third Series of Alice’s Adventures
Thirty-Fourth Series of Primary Order and Secondary Organization
Appendixes
I. The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy
1. Plato and the Simulacrum
2. Lucretius and the Simulacrum
II. Phantasm and Modern Literature
3. Klossowski or Bodies-Language
4. Michel Tournier and the World Without Others
Notes
Index
See also