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Philosophys administrative offices are located on the fifth floor of the humanities building, room 5, on unms main campus. In some respects, of course, heideggers account of the priority. Seminar on deleuzes logic of sense, part 1 youtube. 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. A critical introduction and guideread this one first, and sean bowden s the priority of events. Ranging from stoic philosophy to lewis carroll s literary and logical paradoxes, deleuze s exploration of meaning and meaninglessness takes in language games, sexuality, schizophrenia, psychoanalysis and literature. A major problem threatens deleuzes project in the logic of sense. Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across deleuze s writings, arguing that expressions of becoming s appear in two modes of temporality. Carl raschke at the university of denver on the first half of gilles deleuze s logic of sense. Deleuzes the logic of sense, part i multisense realism. 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. This thesis analyses the concept of sense in deleuzes early philosophy.

Gilles deleuze january 18, 1925november 4, 1995 was one of the most influential and prolific french philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. Deleuzes logic of sense plateaus new directions in. Gilles deleuze and the secretion of atheism plateaus new directions. Deleuzes logic of sense is, like most of his works, a notoriously difficult book. Deleuzes book is really about sensation itself, or rather, a notion of sensation that is not a kind of procedural, kantian containersensation. A major problem threatens deleuze s project in the logic of sense.

Logic of sensehas a clear utopian aim, namely that of calling forth a new earth, a new people. My analysis of deleuzes early works nietzsche and philosophy and proust and signs draws upon the empirical and rationalist tension between sense and meaning. Logic of sense is one of deleuze s seminal books not least in illuminating his most famous collaboration, with felix guattari, antioedipus. But by using prime examples from carroll s alice in wonderland, he goes on to say at least buyer beware. Deleuzes subject is neither preexistent nor stable, but always in the process of becomingother, individuated by inherent differences. 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. An exploration of meaning and meaninglessness or commonsense and nonsense through metaphysics, epistemology, grammar, and eventually psychoanalysis, the logic of sense consists of a series of thirtyfour paradoxes followed by an appendix that contains five previously published essays, including a brief overview of deleuze s ontology entitled plato and the simulacrum. It is also largely neglected by commentators, who often argue that it is somewhat of an impasse in the deleuze corpus, the work of a structuralist deleuze, still under the influence of lacan and psychoanalysis, two unfortunate aspects which his meeting with guattari enabled him to get rid of the real. 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. 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. He makes an ontological distinction between events and substances, but he then collapses a crucial distinction between two kinds. Smith university of minnesota press, 2005 ump amazon the cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. Deleuze s logic of sense is a timely and invaluable resource for resuscitating interest in a work that, despite the current renaissance in deleuze studies, continues to perplex and discomfort those who seek a way into its unique and hybrid structure and conceptions. A philosophy of the event 1994 is an exposition of deleuzes philosophy as a whole, while the complementary deleuzes vocabulary 2003 approaches deleuzes work through an analysis of key concepts in a dictionary form.

Engaging with the challenging and controversial reading of spinoza presented by gilles deleuze in expressionism in philosophy 1968, this book focuses on deleuzes redeployment of spinozist concepts within the context of his own philosophical project of constructing a philosophy of difference as an alternative to the hegelian dialectical philosophy. 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. Yet for all that, its not altogether clear that the full depth of its philosophical innovations and implications have been justly reckoned with, even and perhaps especially by the many deleuzians who populate the landscape of contemporary theory today. Deleuze s logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze. This problem is one of deleuzes primary interests in logic of sense. Deleuze s ontology, the virtual and the actual are two mutually exclusive, yet jointly sufficient, characterizations of the real. Deleuzes logic of sense part 1 by john david ebert 11. 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. In these dense lines, deleuze passes from his reading of nietzsches. In deleuzes book the logic of sense, there are 3 series in the book that discuss paradoxes. Actualreal are states of affairs, that is, bodies and their mixtures or individuals existing in the what difference does deleuze s difference make.

It is very demanding of the reader and it helps to have supportive secondary sources such as james williams gilles deleuze s logic of sense. Logic of sense is one of deleuzes seminal books not least in illuminating his most famous collaboration, with felix guattari, antioedipus. To the question what is the use of philosophy the answer must be. Carl raschke at the university of denver on the first half of gilles deleuzes logic of sense. May 19, 2008 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. His most popular works were the two volumes of capitalism and schizophrenia. Preface here deleuze begins by highlighting carroll and the stoics for their theory of events. Antioedipus 1972 and a thousand plateaus 1980, both cowritten with felix guattari. Gilles deleuzes logic of sense edinburgh university press. Deleuze conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts, and he characterized himself as a pure metaphysician. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. Unm philosophy msc 03 2140 1 university of new mexico albuquerque, nm 871.

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. 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. In the logic of sense, deleuze effectively argues that two types of relation. The paradox of regress 5 aug sense being one of the main discussions in deleuzes book logic of sense, the fifth series talks about sense and why it is more than the presuppositions it leads to on a daily basis. An incisive analysis of deleuzes philosophy of events sean bowden shows how the deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader. In a nutshell, deleuze tries to explain how the logic behind senses that we describe in everyday parlance like common sense or making sense. Deleuze s interest in writers such as lewis carroll, raymond roussel, and james joyce, among many others, is that their works attempted to make visible this virtual domain of language.

Deleuzes exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia and literature. Deleuze diagnoses two ways it has been foreclosed in the history of philosophy. Deleuzes treatment of the philosophers he writes about is a complicated one. After writing two early books on lyotard 1998 and 2000. The stoics are of central importance to deleuzes project in the logic of sense. 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. Deleuze on sense, series, structures, signifiers and snarks. James williams has emerged as one of the most important and accomplished readers of the philosophy of gilles deleuze. Deleuze s logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies. First series of paradoxes of pure becoming the first one is the first series of paradoxes of pure becoming. Deleuzes ontology, the virtual and the actual are two mutually exclusive, yet jointly sufficient, characterizations of the real. 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. However, experimentation constitutes relatively closed environments in which phenomena. Deleuzes children article pdf available in educational philosophy and theory 453.

Deleuzes logic of sense is a timely and invaluable resource for resuscitating interest in a work that, despite the current renaissance in deleuze studies, continues to perplex and discomfort those who seek a way into its unique and hybrid structure and conceptions. As of this writing, its been almost fifty years since gilles deleuze published his enigmatic masterpiece, the logic of sense. It is very demanding of the reader and it helps to have supportive secondary sources such as james williams gilles deleuzes logic of sense. Osullivan says that the figural within bacon parallels deleuzes own philosophical project especially in a thousand plateaus of thinking beyond the human, in the sense of the humans habitual mode of being, a representational mode osullivan, 64. 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. His metaphysical treatise difference and repetition 1968 is. James williams explains the originality of deleuzes work with careful definitions of all his innovative terms and a detailed description of the complex structure. Oct 22, 2015 logic of sense is one of deleuze s seminal works. In his magnum opus difference and repetition, he tries to. In this context, deleuzes notion of meat, that is the virtual idea of universal meat, puts a great challenge to the phenomenological notion of flesh. A philosophy of the event edinburgh university press. Jun 17, 2017 this is the second part of a piece exploring gilles deleuzes the logic of sense. 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.

The logic of sensation by gilles deleuze translated by daniel w. Gilles deleuze francis bacon the logic of sensation pt 1. Bacons three pictorial elements figure figure 5 round arearing rond, piste, contour 5 field of color aplat 8 figure contour structure the raised image, the. Deleuzes the logic of sense edinburgh university press, 2011 jon roffe the synoptic approach to deleuzearguably the dominant strand of deleuze scholarship has cast a great deal of welcome light on what is and remains one of the more complex oeuvres in recent european philosophy. Nov 16, 2017 deleuze s concept of becoming provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. But by using prime examples from carrolls alice in wonderland, he goes on to say at least buyer beware. Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across deleuzes writings, arguing that expressions of becomings appear in two modes of temporality. He is at work on a study of the philosophy of deleuze, and is translating deleuze s francis bacon. Smith is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the university of chicago. Deleuzes interest in writers such as lewis carroll, raymond roussel, and james joyce, among many others, is that their works attempted to make visible this virtual domain of language. There are six chairs imitating a forest arranged around a raised platform where a figure. A critical introduction and guideread this one first, and sean bowdens the priority of events. 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.

Mar 23, 2018 unm philosophy msc 03 2140 1 university of new mexico albuquerque, nm 871. Deleuzes concept of the virtual and the critique of the. Deleuzes paradoxical senseevents deleuze is aware of the peculiarity of stoic causal. 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. The last lines of difference and repetition return to deleuzes ideas of nomadic distribution and to the theme of crowned anarchy a reference to artauds heliogabale, or the crowned anarchist, and to artauds theatre of cruelty, also worked on in the logic of sense. Actualreal are states of affairs, that is, bodies and their mixtures or individuals existing in the what difference does deleuzes difference make. Paradoxes imply that sense is a nonexisting entity xiii. 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. Deleuzes logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies.

He is at work on a study of the philosophy of deleuze, and is translating deleuzes francis bacon. Deleuze and becoming bloomsbury studies in continental. The first one discusses the paradox about pure becoming. Jul 21, 2010 in deleuze s book the logic of sense, there are 3 series in the book that discuss paradoxes. Bowdens strategy is not to propose an original philosophical argument. Deleuzes concept of becoming provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. This is the second part of a piece exploring gilles deleuzes the logic of sense. Jan 01, 2004 deleuze s exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia and literature. An exploration of meaning and meaninglessness or commonsense and nonsense through metaphysics, epistemology, grammar, and eventually psychoanalysis, the logic of sense consists of a series of thirtyfour paradoxes followed by an appendix that contains five previously published essays, including a brief overview of deleuzes ontology entitled plato and the simulacrum.

I claim sense is an empirical process of understanding before a settled meaning has been attained. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influen. Preface, series 1 and 2, appendix 1 on simulacrum and ancient philosophy logic of sense. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Chapter 1 argues that deleuzes account and several theoretical resources can be traced to an early engagement with empiricism, where he uses humean atomism to define a field of difference within which. Gilles deleuze 19251995 was professor of philosophy at the university of paris viii.