Jun 22, 2003 gilles deleuze was one of the most influential and revolutionary philosophers of the twentieth century. In logic of sense, deleuze attacks this problem, first developing the paradoxes that result from the structure of sense and then sketching a theory of its genesis. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the place where sense and. Logic of sense bloomsbury revelations gilles deleuze. Show more james williams explains the originality of deleuzes work with careful definitions of all his innovative terms and a detailed description of the complex. Deleuze, g 1990 the logic of sense, trans mark lester, edited by constantin boundas, new york. Two years later, in the logic of sense, deleuze turns to the theorization of the structural basis of language, which deleuze now calls sense. The english edition was translated by mark lester and charles stivale, and edited by constantin v. Deleuze on sense, series, structures, signifiers and snarks. His most popular works were the two volumes of capitalism and schizophrenia. Kwinter eds, incorporations, zone books, new york, pp. In a nutshell, deleuze tries to explain how the logic behind senses that we describe in everyday parlance like common sense or making sense. Sense, as deleuze emphasizes in the opening sections of the book, is both the result of the structural deployment of signs in speech and, equally, the precondition for.
He is at work on a study of the philosophy of deleuze, and is translating deleuzes francis bacon. The book presents a deep engagement with bacons work and the nature of art. Carl raschke at the university of denver on the first half of gilles deleuzes logic of sense. Jun 17, 2017 in the logic of sense deleuze tackles this problem by incorporating threads of analytical philosophy of language, the lacanian interpretation of saussurean linguistics, the paradoxes of the ancient stoics, game theory, and the fantastical writings of lewis carroll, and its every bit as awesome as that sounds. Gilles deleuze 19251995 was a french philosopher who wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. The logic of sense 1 990, and expressionism in philosophy. The stoics are of central importance to deleuzes project in the logic of sense. For a serious critique of psychoanalysis, the logic of sense is the book to go to, not antioedipus.
In antioedipus 1972 the first volume of capitalism and schizophrenia, deleuze and guattari say that capitalism is the only social machine that is constructed on the basis of decoded flows, substituting for intrinsic codes an axiomatic of abstract quantities in the form of money. In particular, the book will analyze the way in which deleuze grounds this assertion by establishing a relation, the precise nature of which will be seen below, between the works representative of. Considered one of the most important works of one of frances foremost philosophers, and longawaited in english, the logic of sense begins with an extended exegesis of lewis carrolls alice in wonderland. More paradoxes with formal logic attempting to be presuppositionless eg. Plato and the simulacrum gilles deleuze translated by rosalind krauss what is meant by the overthrow of platonism. It focuses on deleuze s concept of events and brings deleuze s work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and american pragmatism. Since its first publication, logic of sense has become a famous work of philosophical criticism, working from stoic philosophy to lewis carrolls literary and logical paradoxes and on to psychoanalysis, deleuze seeks to determine the status of meaning and meaninglessness. Oct 22, 2015 logic of sense is one of deleuze s seminal works. I have retranslated and analysed the first half of the first paragraph to bring out its conceptual structure, in. And in the logic of sense that fo llowed the present study of spinoza we find deleuze inverting the traditional figures of metaphorical use as a partial transposition or translation of a given logic or grammar fr om its true context to some partly similar con text, and of metaphor or analogy breaking down at some point. Deleuzes logic of sense sean bowden an incisive analysis of deleuzes philosophy of eventssean bowden shows how the deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that substances are ontologically secondary with respect to events. If difference and repetition concerns itself with ontology, the logic of sense turns instead to logic, language, discourse, meaning, and the paradoxes between sense and nonsense. This movement of becomingor process of counteractualisation, as deleuze also calls it in the logic of sensehas a clear utopian aim, namely that of calling forth a new earth, a new people. Deleuzes example is the infinite regress of the knights song in alice the song has a name, the name is called something, that name is.
This is a radical interpretation of deleuze s logic of sense. Preface, series 1 and 2, appendix 1 on simulacrum and ancient philosophy logic of sense. Deleuzes book is really about sensation itself, or rather, a notion of sensation that is not a kind of procedural, kantian containersensation. Smith is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the university of chicago. This is the second part of a piece exploring gilles deleuzes the logic of sense. This force is violent, untimely, intense, and can only be sensed.
Deleuze and the history of mathematics book pdf download. In the logic of sense deleuze tackles this problem by incorporating threads of analytical philosophy of language, the lacanian interpretation of saussurean linguistics, the paradoxes of the ancient stoics, game theory, and the fantastical writings. Jun 17, 2017 this is the second part of a piece exploring gilles deleuzes the logic of sense. In deleuze and art anne sauvagnargues, one of the worlds most renowned deleuze scholars, offers a unique insight into the constitutive role played by art in the formation of deleuzes thought. Jan 01, 2004 since its first publication, logic of sense has become a famous work of philosophical criticism, working from stoic philosophy to lewis carrolls literary and logical paradoxes and on to psychoanalysis, deleuze seeks to determine the status of meaning and meaninglessness. A close reading of deleuze s major text on desire the engagement of deleuze with psychoanalysis has led to the development of a remarkable and highly influential theory about human desire. W eve discussed in part a how sense, the expressed of the proposition, intervenes in the circle of the proposition, paradoxically grounding it despite being its effect.
It is only by breaking open the circle, as in the case of the mobius strip, by unfolding and untwisting it, that the dimension of sense appears for itself, in its irreducibility, and also in its genetic power as it animates an a priori internal model of the proposition. Ranging from stoic philosophy to lewis carrolls literary and logical paradoxes, deleuzes exploration of meaning and meaninglessness takes in language games, sexuality, schizophrenia, psychoanalysis and literature. First published in 1969, shortly after difference and repetition, it prefigures the hybrid style and methods he would use in his later writing with felix guattari. His metaphysical treatise difference and repetition 1968 is. Deleuze on sense, series, structures, signifiers and. Nietzsche thus defines the task of his philosophy, or more generally, the task of the philosophy of the future. Paradoxes imply that sense is a nonexisting entity xiii. The recording process in what sense capitalism is universal the social machine the problem of the socius, coding the flows not exchanging, but marking and being marked the investment and the disinvestment of organs cruelty.
James williams explains the originality of deleuzes work with careful definitions of all his innovative terms and a detailed description of the complex structure he constructs. There are six chairs imitating a forest arranged around a raised platform where a figure. In this context, deleuzes notion of meat, that is the virtual idea of universal meat, puts a great challenge to the. Unlike most of his contemporaries deleuze was a realist philosopher. The most systematic account of this theory, crucial for.
Logic of sense has the form of a virtual seminar, irrespective of whether its chapters were delivered as actual lessons or not. Descargar coleccion 27 libros en pdf zip deleuze, gilles deseo y placer traducido por javier sa. The english edition was translated by mark lester and charles stivale, and edited by. As he writes in the preface, the privileged place assigned to the stoics in this text is due to their having been the initiators of a new image of the philosopher which broke away from the presocratics, socratic philosophy and platonism. Preface here deleuze begins by highlighting carroll and the stoics for their theory of events.
But by using prime examples from carrolls alice in wonderland, he goes on to say at least buyer beware. Seminar on deleuzes logic of sense, part 1 youtube. The most systematic account of this theory, crucial for anyone interested in the work of deleuze and guattari, can be found in the discussion of the dynamic genesis of sense, a pivotal part of deleuzes the logic of sense. This is the usual philosophically dense material, and i am not going to attempt to offer detailed notes. Columbia university press, 1990 logique du sens, minuit, 1969galloway reading notes context and general notes the logic of sense, along with difference and repetition, represents the culmination of the first phase of deleuzes work on core philosophy, which roughly coincides with the decade of the. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the place. Logic of sense is one of deleuzes seminal books not least in illuminating his most famous collaboration, with felix guattari, antioedipus. Deleuzes exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia and literature. Deleuzes stuttering 8 knows with the notion that, something in the world forces us to think deleuze 1994, 9. Smith university of minnesota press, 2005 ump amazon the cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. I think many readers of deleuze get caught up in deleuze s originality and forget that he didnt try to describe a completely new system of everything, but rather wanted to describe more precisely the logic of a creative ontology. The logic of sensation is his longawaited work on bacon,widely regarded as one of the most radical painters of the twentieth century. This is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuzes most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event.
The first volume contained deleuze s essay, while the second volume consisted exclusively of fullpage reproductions of bacons. The logic of sense, along with difference and repetition, represents the culmination of the first phase of deleuzes work on core philosophy, which roughly coincides with the decade of the 1960s. Ranging from stoic philosophy to lewis carrolls literary and logical paradoxes, deleuze s exploration of meaning and meaninglessness takes in language games, sexuality, schizophrenia, psychoanalysis and literature. Pdf on the incipit to deleuzes logic of sense terence. Gilles deleuze was one of the most influential and revolutionary philosophers of the twentieth century. For deleuze, sensation is always a verb, not a noun, and this book is an attempt to make this movement and logic of sensation apparentbut not necessarily visible. The logic of sensation by gilles deleuze translated by daniel w. Pdf deleuze and desire analysis of the logic of sense. Pdf gilles deleuze s logic of sense download full pdf. James williams explains the originality of deleuze s work with careful definitions of all his innovative terms and a detailed description of the complex structure. Gilles deleuzes logic of sense edinburgh university press. The first volume contained deleuzes essay, while the second volume consisted exclusively of fullpage reproductions of bacons.
Deleuzes exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with language, games, sexuality. The aim of this present study is above all to examine and clarify the complex way in which deleuze asserts the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work, the logic of sense. This is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuze s most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event. But his realist stance was deeply innovative and constituted a sharp break. The logic of sense quotes showing 11 of 1 the gray butterfly understands so well the event to be hidden that, by remaining in the same place, plastered to the trunk of a tree, it covers the whole distance separating it from the to invigorate of the black butterfly. Rachel fensham monash university, australia reference deleuze, gilles 1992, mediators in j. His metaphysical treatise difference and repetition 1968 is considered by many scholars to be his magnum opus. Pdf gilles deleuzes logic of sense download ebook for free. Understanding deleuzeextends to the reader deleuzes own invitation to think differently about cultural studies. He does this using resources from analytic philosophy and the stoics in the course of a reading of lewis carrolla typically innovative, if not quirky, set of deleuzean references. It is opposed to recognition, common sense, familiarity, the truth, and the good will of the everybody knows. By reproducing deleuzes social and intellectual references, sauvagnargues is able to construct a precise map of the totality of deleuzes work.
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