The psychoanalysis of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies its. It focuses on deleuzes concept of events and brings deleuzes work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and american pragmatism. Deleuzes ontology, the virtual and the actual are two mutually exclusive, yet jointly sufficient, characterizations of the real. May 19, 2008 this is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuze s most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event. Jan 01, 2004 deleuze s exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia and literature. Gilles deleuze francis bacon the logic of sensation pt 1. Aidan tynan addresses deleuze s assertion that literature is an enterprise of health and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his groundbreaking collaborations with guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements on life.
Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across deleuzes writings, arguing that expressions of becomings appear in two modes of temporality. Difference and repetition are such an alternative to the dialectic that theyre difficult to grasp without a serious grounding in metaphysics see his books on kant and hume especially, spinoza, and bergson. Sense being one of the main discussions in deleuzes book logic of sense, the fifth series talks about sense and why it is more than the presuppositions it leads to on a daily basis. 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. October other the phantasmatic simulacra semblances. A philosophy of the event edinburgh university press.
Here he meditates upon the art work of francis bacon, firmly identifying with his paitiing the kind of becomings that exemplify his nietzschian philosophy of movement, non. Jun 17, 2017 this is the second part of a piece exploring gilles deleuzes the logic of sense. Deleuze and becoming bloomsbury studies in continental. Smith university of minnesota press, 2005 ump amazon the cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. It is also largely neglected by commentators, who often argue that it is somewhat of an impasse in the deleuze corpus, the work of a structuralist deleuze, still under the influence of lacan and psychoanalysis, two unfortunate aspects which his meeting with guattari enabled him to get rid of the real. In the opening sections of his 1969 the logic of sense, gilles deleuze argues for a theory of the sense of propositions as the underlying and necessarily. This expressivist account of concepts is motivated by deleuze s empiricism and is crucially informed by his analysis of language and events in the logic of sense.
Deleuzes children 281 downloaded by university of sydney at 17. Aidan tynan addresses deleuzes assertion that literature is an enterprise of health and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his groundbreaking collaborations with guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements on life. In joining peak and abyss together, nietzsche formulated a paradoxical logic in which chaos and. See in particular sean bowden, the priority of events. Before turning to this account, and to the analysis of conceptual change that it implies, let me outline the traditional paradigm to. Deleuze s logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies at. Mar 23, 2018 unm philosophy msc 03 2140 1 university of new mexico albuquerque, nm 871. Deleuze on sense, series, structures, signifiers and snarks. This is the second part of a piece exploring gilles deleuzes the logic of sense.
The first volume contained deleuze s essay, while the second volume consisted exclusively of fullpage reproductions of bacon s. Deleuzes logic of sense 2011 by sean bowden, deleuze. Deleuze s logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze. The first study of deleuze s critical and clinical project. In deleuzes logic of sense, many arguable and intriguing things are brought to the table.
In particular, the book will analyze the way in which deleuze grounds this assertion by establishing a relation, the precise nature of which will be seen below, between the works representative of. The paradox of regress 5 aug sense being one of the main discussions in deleuzes book logic of sense, the fifth series talks about sense and why it is more than the presuppositions it leads to on a daily basis. Paul livingston, unm, department of philosophy when. Deleuzes concept of semantically generative events, and of semantic enhancement through intersections of paradoxical events the disjunctive synthesis was very helpful in the writing i did about art, and about intersecting exhibitions in the 1990s.
Ranging from stoic philosophy to lewis carrolls literary and logical paradoxes, deleuzes exploration of meaning and meaninglessness takes in language games, sexuality, schizophrenia, psychoanalysis and literature. Gilles deleuze, francis bacon the logic of sensation pt 1. They combine them with the singularities that their own body. Logic of sensehas a clear utopian aim, namely that of calling forth a new earth, a new people. After writing two early books on lyotard 1998 and 2000. Deleuze s ontology, the virtual and the actual are two mutually exclusive, yet jointly sufficient, characterizations of the real. A major problem threatens deleuze s project in the logic of sense. Carl raschke at the university of denver on the first half of gilles deleuzes logic of sense.
A major problem threatens deleuzes project in the logic of sense. The paradox of sense, or on the event of thought in. Download this is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuzes most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event. An exploration of meaning and meaninglessness or commonsense and nonsense through metaphysics, epistemology, grammar, and eventually psychoanalysis, the logic of sense consists of a series of thirtyfour paradoxes followed by an appendix that contains five previously published essays, including a brief overview of deleuze s ontology entitled plato and the simulacrum.
Actualreal are states of affairs, that is, bodies and their mixtures or individuals existing in the what difference does deleuzes difference make. Actualreal are states of affairs, that is, bodies and their mixtures or individuals existing in the what difference does deleuze s difference make. Deleuze deletes substance from his metaphysics in favor of the concept of difference and thus relies on the ontologically primitive event upon which to found being, thus resulting in the priority of events. Here he meditates upon the art work of francis bacon, firmly identifying with his paitiing the kind of becomings that exemplify his nietzschian philosophy of movement, nonrepresentation, bwo and the capturing of forces. Nov 16, 2017 deleuze s concept of becoming provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now.
W eve discussed in part a how sense, the expressed of the proposition, intervenes in the circle of the proposition, paradoxically grounding it despite being its effect. This is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuze s most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event. An incisive analysis of deleuzes philosophy of eventssean bowden shows how the deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the. Deleuze wants to show that there is a materiality of expression that is also a. Deleuzes the logic of sense, part i multisense realism. James williams explains the originality of deleuze s work with careful definitions of all his innovative terms and a detailed description of the complex structure. The first volume contained deleuzes essay, while the second volume consisted exclusively of fullpage reproductions of bacons. This is a radical interpretation of deleuzes logic of sense. Deleuzes logic of sense is, like most of his works, a notoriously difficult book. As he writes in the preface, the privileged place assigned to the stoics in this text is due to their having been the initiators of a new image of the philosopher which broke away from the presocratics, socratic philosophy and platonism. This is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuzes most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event. Only being at the third series, this is my second writing about the book.
Since its first publication, logic of sense has become a famous work of philosophical criticism, working from stoic philosophy to lewis carrolls literary and logical paradoxes and on to psychoanalysis, deleuze seeks to determine the status of meaning and meaninglessness. Deleuzes logic of sense is a timely and invaluable resource for resuscitating interest in a work that, despite the current renaissance in deleuze studies, continues to perplex and discomfort those who seek a way into its unique and hybrid structure and conceptions. How can deleuze combine the impassibility of sense with the power. The aim of this present study is above all to examine and clarify the complex way in which deleuze asserts the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work, the logic of sense. Oct 22, 2015 logic of sense is one of deleuze s seminal works. Columbia university press, 1990 logique du sens, minuit, 1969galloway reading notes context and general notes the logic of sense, along with difference and repetition, represents the culmination of the first phase of deleuzes work on core philosophy, which roughly coincides with the decade of the. Deleuzes book is really about sensation itself, or rather, a notion of sensation that is not a kind of procedural, kantian containersensation. W eve discussed in part a how sense, the expressed of the proposition, intervenes in the circle of the proposition, paradoxically grounding it despite being its effect the intervention of sense is at two points. Deleuze s logic of sense, edinburgh university press, 2011, 296pp. Deleuzes logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies at. In particular, the thesis analyses the way in which deleuze grounds this affirmation by establishing a complex and structural relation between the works representative of several of the philosophers and intellectual movements which.
Bowdens strategy is not to propose an original philosophical argument. An exploration of meaning and meaninglessness or commonsense and nonsense through metaphysics, epistemology, grammar, and eventually psychoanalysis, the logic of sense consists of a series of thirtyfour paradoxes followed by an appendix that contains five previously published essays, including a brief overview of deleuzes ontology entitled plato and the simulacrum. For deleuze, sensation is always a verb, not a noun, and this book is an attempt to make this movement and logic of sensation apparentbut not necessarily visible. Oct 19, 2009 summary notes from gilles deleuzes francis bacon. Gilles deleuze january 18, 1925november 4, 1995 was one of the most influential and prolific french philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. Deleuzes the logic of sense edinburgh university press, 2011 jon roffe the synoptic approach to deleuzearguably the dominant strand of deleuze scholarship has cast a great deal of welcome light on what is and remains one of the more complex oeuvres in recent european philosophy. Deleuze thinks that in all worthwhile art there is an attempt to find release from the suffocating sense of given possibilities, a fight to. In the logic of sense, deleuze effectively argues that two types of relation between events. Quotes from the logic of sense the gray butterfly understands so well the event to be hidden that, by remaining in the same place, plastered to the trunk of a tree, it covers the whole distance separating it from the to invigorate of the black butterfly.
An incisive analysis of deleuzes philosophy of events sean bowden shows how the deleuzian event. The first study of deleuzes critical and clinical project. The aim of this thesis is to examine the way in which deleuze affirms the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work, the logic of sense. Platonic or kantian, and the surface of sense or incorporeal events see. Preface here deleuze begins by highlighting carroll and the stoics for their theory of events. Logic of sense is one of deleuze s seminal books not least in illuminating his most famous collaboration, with felix guattari, antioedipus. Gilles deleuzes logic of sense edinburgh university press. Deleuze and the history of mathematics book pdf download. James williams explains the originality of deleuzes work with careful definitions of all his innovative terms and a detailed description of the complex structure he constructs.
Ranging from stoic philosophy to lewis carroll s literary and logical paradoxes, deleuze s exploration of meaning and meaninglessness takes in language games, sexuality, schizophrenia, psychoanalysis and literature. Deleuzes neoleibnizianism, events and the logic of. Seminar on deleuzes logic of sense, part 1 youtube. He makes an ontological distinction between events and substances, but he then collapses a crucial distinction between two kinds. To the question what is the use of philosophy the answer must be.
James williams has emerged as one of the most important and accomplished readers of the philosophy of gilles deleuze. Deleuzes concept of becoming provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. Deleuzes logic of sense part 1 by john david ebert 11 youtube. Deleuze on sense, series, structures, signifiers and. A philosophy of the event 1994 is an exposition of deleuzes philosophy as a whole, while the complementarydeleuzes vocabulary 2003 approaches deleuzes work through an analysis of key concepts in a dictionary form. Deleuzes logic of sense part 1 by john david ebert 11. A philosophy of the event 1994 is an exposition of deleuze s philosophy as a whole, while the complementarydeleuze s vocabulary 2003 approaches deleuze s work through an analysis of key concepts in a dictionary form.
Preface, series 1 and 2, appendix 1 on simulacrum and ancient philosophy logic of sense. It is only by breaking open the circle, as in the case of the mobius strip, by unfolding and untwisting it, that the dimension of sense appears for itself, in its irreducibility, and also in its genetic power as it animates an a priori internal model of the proposition. Deleuzes logic of sense plateaus new directions in deleuze studies 9780748643646. Philosophys administrative offices are located on the fifth floor of the humanities building, room 5, on unms main campus. This is a radical interpretation of deleuze s logic of sense. In history and becoming, craig lundy puts forward a series of fresh and provocative responses to this enduring problematic. Deleuze conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts, and he characterized himself as a pure metaphysician.
As of this writing, its been almost fifty years since gilles deleuze published his enigmatic masterpiece, the logic of sense. The logic of sensation by gilles deleuze translated by daniel w. There are six chairs imitating a forest arranged around a raised platform where a figure. I am only on the third series out of many series in the book series here are like chapters. Deleuzes logic of sense sean bowden an incisive analysis of deleuzes philosophy of eventssean bowden shows how the deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that substances are ontologically secondary with respect to events. Yet for all that, its not altogether clear that the full depth of its philosophical innovations and implications have been justly reckoned with, even and perhaps especially by the many deleuzians who populate the landscape of contemporary theory today. In this context, deleuzes notion of meat, that is the virtual idea of universal meat, puts a great challenge to the phenomenological notion of flesh. Aug 02, 2010 in deleuzes logic of sense, many arguable and intriguing things are brought to the table. In logic of sense, deleuze first analyzes the expressions of verbs of becoming which denote propositions expressing ideal events. Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across deleuze s writings, arguing that expressions of becoming s appear in two modes of temporality. Pdf gilles deleuzes logic of sense download ebook for free. Deleuze, frege, kant, nietzsche, signification, sense, effect, event. Osullivan says that the figural within bacon parallels deleuzes own philosophical project especially in a thousand plateaus of thinking beyond the human, in the sense of the humans habitual mode of being, a representational mode osullivan, 64.
Paradoxes imply that sense is a nonexisting entity xiii. A philosophy of the event 1994 is an exposition of deleuzes philosophy as a whole, while the complementary deleuzes vocabulary 2003 approaches deleuzes work through an analysis of key concepts in a dictionary form. If difference and repetition concerns itself with ontology, the logic of sense turns instead to logic, language, discourse, meaning, and the paradoxes between sense and nonsense. Carl raschke at the university of denver on the first half of gilles deleuze s logic of sense. The stoics are of central importance to deleuzes project in the logic of sense. It focuses on deleuze s concept of events and brings deleuze s work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and american pragmatism. We can thus better define the whole of the platonic motiveit is a matter of choosing claimants, of. In his magnum opus difference and repetition, he tries to. This expressivist account of concepts is motivated by deleuzes empiricism and is crucially informed by his analysis of language and events in the logic of sense. Deleuzes exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with language, games, sexuality. Full version deleuze, cinema and the thought of the world.
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