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Logic of Sense is one of Deleuze's seminal works. 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. In an early review Michel Foucault wrote that Logic of Sense 'should be read as the boldest and most insolent of metaphysical treatises'.

The book is divided into 34 'series' and five appendices covering a diverse range of topics including, sense, nonsense, event, sexuality, psychoanalysis, paradoxes, schizophrenia, literature and becoming and includes fascinating close textual readings of works by Lewis Carroll, Sigmund Freud, Seneca, Pierre Klossowski, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Emile Zola. Logic of Sense is essential reading for anyone interested in post-war continental thought. The Logic of Sense should be read as the boldest and most insolent of metaphysical treatises-on the simple condition that instead of denouncing metaphysics as the ne glect of being, we force it to speak of extrabeing. * Michel Foucault *

Logic of Sense

Preface: From Lewis Carroll to the Stoics



First Series of Paradoxes of Pure Becoming

Second Series of Paradoxes of Surface Effects

Third Series of the Proposition

Fourth Series of Dualities

Fifth Series of Sense

Sixth Series on Serialization

Seventh Series of Esoteric Words

Eighth Series of Structure

Ninth Series of the Problematic

Tenth Series of the Ideal Game

Eleventh Series of Nonsense

Twelfth Series of the Paradox

Thirteenth Series of the Schizophrenic and the Little Girl

Fourteenth Series of Double Causality

Fifteenth Series of Singularities

Sixteenth Series of the Static Ontological Genesis

Seventeenth Series of the Static Logical Genesis

Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers

Nineteenth Series of Humor

Twentieth Series on the Moral Problem in Stoic Philosophy

Twenty-First Series of the Event

Twenty-Second Series-Porcelain and Volcano

Twenty-Third Series of the Aion

Twenty-Fourth Series of the Communication of Events

Twenty-Fifth Series of Univocity

Twenty-Sixth Series of Language

Twenty-Seventh Series of Orality

Twenty-Eighth Series of Sexuality

Twenty-Ninth Series-Good Intentions Are Inevitably Punished

Thirtieth Series of the Phantasm

Thirty-First Series of Thought

Thirty-Second Series on the Different Kinds of Series

Thirty-Third Series of Alice's Adventures

Thirty-Fourth Series of Primary Order and Secondary Organization



Appendixes

I. The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy

1. Plato and the Simulacrum

2. Lucretius and the Simulacrum

II. Phantasm and Modern Literature

3. Klossowski or Bodies-Language

4. Michel Tournier and the World Without Others

5. Zola and the Crack-Up



Index