The Logic of Sense
| The Logic of Sense | |
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Front cover of the 1990 Columbia University Press edition |
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| Author(s) | 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] Michel Foucault said that Deleuze's text "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".[2]
[edit] References
[edit] Further reading
- Foucault, Michel. "Theatrum Philosophicum". Trans. Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. In The Essential Works of Michel Foucault: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology. Ed. James D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 1998. 343-368.
- Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. Philosophy through the Looking Glass: Language, Nonsense, Desire. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1985.
- Williams, James. Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
[edit] External links
- * Gilles Deleuze entry by Daniel Smith & John Protevi in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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