Logic Of Sense (Continuum Impacts) - Softcover

Gilles Deleuze

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082647716X ISBN 13: 9780826477163

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2005

Synopsis

Since its first publication, Logic of Sense has become a famous work of philosophical criticism, Working from Stoic philosophy to Lewis Carroll's literary and logical paradoxes and on to psychoanalysis, Deleuze seeks to determine the status of meaning and meaninglessness. Deleuze's exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia and literature. Logic of Sense is one of Deleuze's seminal books not least in illuminating his most famous collaboration, with Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus.

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Book Description

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.

About the Author

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He is the co-author of the renowned texts Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus - both of which are available as Continuum Impacts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082647716X
• ISBN 13: 9780826477163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180