Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sense and nonsense collide.
Written in an innovative form and witty style, The Logic of Sense is an essay in literary and psychoanalytic theory as well as philosophy, and helps to illuminate such works as Anti-Oedipus.
Gilles Deleuze. Edited by Constantin V. Boundas. Translated by Mark Lester with Charles Stivale
Preface: From Lewis Carroll to the StoicsFirst Series of Paradoxes of Pure BecomingSecond Series of Paradoxes of Surface EffectsThird Series of the PropositionFourth Series of DualitiesFifth Series of SenseSixth Series on SerializationSeventh Series of Esoteric WordsEighth Series of StructureNinth Series of the ProblematicTenth Series of the Ideal GameEleventh Series of NonsenseTwelfth Series of the ParadoxThirteenth Series of the Schizophrenic and the Little GirlFourteenth Series of Double CausalityFifteenth Series of SingularitiesSixteenth Series of the Static Ontological GenesisSeventeenth Series of the Static Logical GenesisEighteenth Series of the Three Images of PhilosophersNineteenth Series of HumorTwentieth Series on the Moral Problem in Stoic PhilosophyTwenty-First Series of the EventTwenty-Second Series -- Porcelain and VolcanoTwenty Third Series of the AionTwenty Fourth Series of the Communication of EventsTwenty Fifth Series of UnivocityTwenty-Sixth Series of LanguageTwenty-Seventh Series of OralityTwenty-Eight Series of SexualityTwenty-Ninth Series -- Good Intentiosn are Inevitably PunishedThirtieth Series of PhantasmThirty-First Series of ThoughtThirty-Second Series on the Different Kinds of SeriesThirty-Third Series of Alice's AdventuresThirty-Fourth Series of Primary Order and Secondary OrganizationAppendixesI. The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy1. Plato and the Simulacrum2. Lucretius and the SimulacrumII. Phantasm and Modern Literature3. Klossowski or Bodies-Language4. Michel Tournier and the World Without Others5. Zola and the Crack-UpNotesIndex