A Reading of Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense

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This is a reading of Gilles Deleuze’s masterpiece Logic of Sense. It provides a thorough and systematic reading of Deleuze’s book by focusing on the aspects that are neglected in the existing literature. Specifically, the claim that Deleuze’s Logic of Sense provides a convincing answer for the most important question of the history of philosophy regarding the relation between thought and existence as well as the relation between logic and ontology is defended. The answer is that if thought is related to existence, logic is supposed to be, not the logic of essence, but rather the logic of sense. This analysis s pursued respectively through Deleuze’s readings of Frege, the ancient Stoics, Lewis Carroll, Kant, Lautman, Leibniz, and Melanie Klein.

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Logic and Ontology

Deleuze is famously an anti-Hegelian, for he criticizes Hegel’s philosophy, specifically in Nietzsche and Philosophy and in Difference and Repetition, for how it takes negativity to be the principal force and the motor of the dialectical movement. In Deleuze’s view, negativity is a conceptual result... see more

The Stoic Logic of Events

The main aim of this chapter is to unpack Deleuze’s interpretation of Stoic logic in Logic of Sense. It is in this regard that I also discuss his account of Stoic (metaphysical) physics and Stoic ethics. According to “the aphorism-anecdote” that Deleuze quotes from Diogenes Laertius in Twenties Seri... see more

Dynamic Genesis and Psychoanalysis

Up until now, Deleuze has been described as a transcendental philosopher who, despite constantly criticizing the philosophers of the transcendental tradition, never ceases to tackle the problem of the transcendental, which is to say, the conditions of experience. Therefore, he introduces his own ver... see more

Sense as the Transcendental Field

The main aim of this chapter is to tackle Deleuze’s contribution to post-Kantian transcendental philosophy by introducing a new account of the transcendental which can be called the immanent, or real, transcendental, and which entails real conditioning as production or generation. This amounts to an... see more

The Ideational Materiality of Sense

In this chapter, I attempt to explain how in Deleuze’s thought sense is both ideational and material. To do this, I focus on Deleuze’s reading of Kant’s “Transcendental Ideas” in Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense and elaborate on the link that he makes between Ideas and problems. Next, th... see more

Madness vs. Stupidity

One of the main themes of Deleuze’s Logic ofSense is the possibility of the communication of divergent series without reducing them in a connection, continuity or convergence. Taking divergent series as convergent (and heterogeneities as homogeneous) marks an illusionary communication, not a real on... see more

Introduction

The relationship between logic as the theory of knowledge and ontology as the theory of existence constitutes the core problem of most post-Kantian philosophy. In order to make such a connection between logic and ontology possible, post-Kantian philosophers had to introduce a third realm distinct fr... see more

Carroll and the Logic of Nonsense

In the course of Logic of Sense, Deleuze insists on the irreducibility of the inherent paradox of sense, which is, its impassibility and neutrality from one side and its productivity and genesis from the other. In order to emphasize this paradox, he introduces Stoic double causality, and ascribes a ... see more

Sense from Frege to Deleuze

Deleuze’s Logic of Sense should be taken as an attempt to respond to the need to reverse classical Aristotelian logic, a need which is proposed first by the ancient Stoics, then by Lewis Carroll, and finally by the emergence of modern logic in the works of Frege and Russell. Deleuze, in Logic of Sen... see more

Logic of Exteriority

This chapter centers our reading of Deleuze’s contingent (ir)rationalism and on this basis responds to the contemporary Cartesian tendencies in philosophy that build their critique of Deleuze around a negligence of the essential contingency in his philosophical system. Although this line of thought ... see more

Frege’s Paradox and the Serial Form

At the beginning of Logic of Sense, Deleuze defines paradox as “the affirmation of both senses or directions at once” (“le paradoxe est l’affirmation des deux sens a la fois”; LdS 9; LoS 1), and then he elaborates different paradoxes of sense. Thus, there are several aspects on which sense implies t... see more

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