The Logic of Sense

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The Logic of Sense
Author	Gilles Deleuze
Original title	Logique du sens
Translator	Mark Lester
Country	France
Language	French
Genre(s)	philosophy
Publisher	Les Éditions de Minuit
Publication date	1969
Published in English	1990

The Logic of Sense (French: Logique du sens), a book released by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze in 1969, is an exploration of meaning and meaninglessness, or "commonsense" 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 English edition was translated by Mark Lester with Charles Stivale, and edited by Constantin V. Boundas.^[1]

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^ Columbia University Press

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Logic of Sense", by Daniel Smith & John Protevi.

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Concepts and theories	Affect • Arborescent • Assemblage • Body without organs • Conceptual character • Desiring-production • Deterritorialization • Difference • Haecceity • Immanent evaluation • Individuation • Line of flight • Minority • Molar and molecular • Multiplicity • Noosphere • Plane of immanence • Reterritorialization • Rhizome • Schizoanalysis • Society of control • Subjectivation • Trascendental empiricism

Works by Deleuze and Guattari	Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Anti-Œdipus • A Thousand Plateaus) • Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature • Rhizome • Nomadology: The War Machine • What is Philosophy ?

Works by Deleuze	Empiricism and Subjectivity • Nietzsche and Philosophy • Kant's Critical Philosophy • Proust and Signs • Nietzsche • Bergsonism • Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty • Difference and Repetition • Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza • The Logic of Sense • Spinoza: Practical Philosophy • The Intellectuals and Power: A Discussion Between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault¹ • Dialogues² • Superpositions³ • Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation • Cinema 1: The Movement Image • Cinema 2: The Time-Image • Foucault • The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque • Périclès et Verdi: La philosophie de Francois Châtelet • Negotiations • Essays Critical and Clinical • Bartleby, la formula della creazione⁴ • Pure Immanence • Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953-1974 • Two Regimes of Madness

Works by Guattari	Psychanalyse et transversalité • Molecular Revolution • Desire and Revolution⁵ • L'inconscient machinique. Essais de Schizoanalyse • L’intervention institutionnelle⁶ • Les années d'hiver • Pratique de l'institutionnel et politique⁷ • Communists Like Us⁸ • Molecular Revolution in Brazil⁹ • The Three Ecologies • Cartographies schizoanalytiques • Chaosmose • Chaosophy • Soft Subversions • The Guattari Reader • The Anti-Œdipus Papers • Chaos and Complexity

Related topics	L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze • La Borde clinic • A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

¹ with Michel Foucault • ² with Claire Parnet • ³ with Carmelo Bene • ⁴ with Giorgio Agamben • ⁵ with Franco Berardi and Paolo Beretto • ⁶ with Jacques Arodino, Georges Lapassade, Gerard Mendel and Rene Lourau • ⁷ with Jean Oury and François Tosquelles • ⁸ with Antonio Negri • ⁹ with Suley Rolnik