Summary
Gilles Deleuze: Logic of Sense
Gilles Deleuze's book Logic of Sense (Logique du sens, 1969) immediately precedes - not only chronologically but also as a kind of precondition or foundation - the collaboration of the great French philosopher with the psychiatrist and activist Felix Guattari, the result of which will be the monumental double-conscious work Capitalism and Schizophrenia (composed of the books Antiedipus and Thousand Plateaus, also published in translation in Croatian part of the publishing project Sandorf&Mizantrop). Consisting of thirty-four "paradoxes" and an Appendix that, in addition to five previously published essays, includes a brief review of Deleuze's ontology entitled "Plato and the Simulacrum," The Logic of Meaning develops a "philosophy of events" that undermines the entirety of traditional ontology through analysis of authors as diverse as Lewis Carrol, Seneca, Pierre Klossowski, Michel Tournier, Emile Zola, and Sigmund Freud. An exercise in "non-totalizing thinking", the Logic of Meaning is, however, far more than that: a radical attempt to think the unthinkable and the unthinkable, and a daring undertaking to reveal and reflect on everything that has been forgotten or obscured in philosophy. In this perspective, which is also historical, its importance lies in the fact that it is one of the first works that reactualizes Stoic thought in an original way. It was precisely on the occasion of the Logic of Sense that Michel Foucault made his famous prophecy that "one day our century will be called Deleuz's".
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