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THE LOGIC OF SENSE Gilles Deleuze TRANSLATED BY Mark Lester WITH Charles Stivale EDITED BY Constantin V. Boundas a THE ATHLONE PRESS London Fit published in Great Britain i 1990 by The Athlone Pres. + Park Drive, London NW 7SG Copyright © 1990 Columbia University Press ‘Onginally published as Lagique di Sens © 1969 by Les Esiions de Minuit, Paris British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Deleuze, Giles, 1925= The logic of sense 1. Meaning Philosophical perspectives 1. Title Tl. Boundas, Constantine V. 1. Logique du sens, Engl ISBN on485-3006)-X All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication may be repraluced, stored in a retrieval system, oF transmitted, in any form oF by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying of otherwise, without ‘writing from the publisher. the prior permission Printed in the United States of America Book design by Ken ¥ 9005 Contents Platonic distinction between limited things and becoming nite identity —Alice’s adventures or “ev SECOND SERIES OF PARADOXES OF SURFACE EFFECTS 4 Stoic distinction between bodies oF states of alfairs and Bringing to the surface —Discovery of the surface in the work of Lewis Carroll elfects oF events—Cleavage of the causal relat WIRD SERIES OF THE PROPOSTION 12 Denotation, manifestation, signification: their relations and circularity —Does the proposition have a fourth dimensionz—Sense, expression, and event—Double nature of sense: the “expressible” of the proposi- tion and the attribute of the state of affairs, insistence, and extra-Being FOURTH SERIES OF DUALITIES 23 Bodies/language, to eavto speak—Two kinds of words—Two dimen- sions of the proposition: denotations and expressions, consumptions and sense—The two series FIFTH SERIES OF SENSE 28 Indefinite proliferation —Sterile splitting —Neutralty or the third state of the essence —Absurd and impossible objects Serial form and heteroger of convergence of the series—Lac (empty place or occupant without place) —The sheep’s shop ‘ous series —Their constitution —The point paradox: the strange element Synthesis of contraction on one series (connection) —Synthesis of co- ordination of two series (conjunction) —Synthesis of disjunction or the ramification of series: the problem of portmanteau words HIGHTH SERIES OF sTRUCTURE 48 Lévi-Strauss’ paradox — Conditions of a structure —The role of singu- larities ities and events— Problem and event —Recreative mathemat- es —Aleatory point and singular points Rules of ordinary games of ti An extraordinary game—The two readings Aion and Chronos —Mallarmé vi CONTENTS of the paradoxic clement— What does it mean for it to be nons nsense—The two forms of the we; the two figures of n absurd (without signification) which are derived from it—co-presence of sense and nonsense—Sense as “effect” ‘TWELFTH SERIES OF THE PARADOX 74 The nature of good sense and the paradox—The nature of common sense and the paradox—Non ense, sense, and the organization of the so-called secondary language Antonin Artaud and Lewis Carroll —To eav/to speak and schizophrenic language—Schizophrenia and failure of the surface—The word-pas- sion and its exploded literal values, the word-action and its inarticulate tonic values—Distinetion between the nonsense of depth and the nonsense of the surface, the primary order, and the secondary organi- zation of language Incorporeal events-eflects, their ¢ cand _quasi-cause—Impassibility and genesis —Husser!’s theory —The conditions of a real genesis: tran- scendental field without the Lor a center of individuation The battle—The transcendental field cannot retain the form of con sciousness—Impersonal and pre de ndividual singularities —Transcen- al field and surface—Discourse of the individual, discourse of the person, discourse without ground: Is there a fourth discourse? Genesis of the individual: L of a world or of the con ibniz—Condition of the “compossibility” srgence of series (continuity)— Transforma- CONTENTS vii

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