The logic of meaning

Logique du sens

🦉The first Chinese translation of Deleuze's key works 🦉34 paradoxes + 5 essays 🦉Starting from "Alice in Wonderland", looking into and developing the paradoxical philosophy pioneered by the Stoic school——————
Comprising a series of 34 paradoxes and five accompanying essays, The Logic of Sense is one of Deleuze's most important works. Deleuze uses ancient and modern paradoxes to determine the status of meaning and meaninglessness, exploring the sites of conflict between them. He explores topics such as the philosophy of event and the philosophy of becoming, the plane of immanence and the body without organs, the mythical conception of time, and play. He touches upon writers such as Lewis Carroll, Antonin Artaud, Mallarmé, Zola, Fitzgerald, and Michel Tournier; philosophers such as the Stoics, Seneca, Nietzsche, and Klossowski; and psychoanalysts such as Freud and Melanie Klein. Depth, height, and surface are woven into the complex relationships that make up life, but Deleuze rejects depth and refutes height. He conquers surface through the literary lens of Lewis Carroll and the philosophical lens of the Stoics, aiming to interpret Paul Valéry's famous dictum: "The deepest thing is the skin."
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★ The first Chinese translation of Deleuze's key works:
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the influence of Deleuze's philosophy has been growing, both in China and globally. This book, along with Difference and Repetition, Cinema 1: Movement-Image, The Fold, and his co-authors with Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus, is considered a core work of Deleuze's philosophy. However, due to its central focus on paradox, this book presents significant translation challenges, and no Chinese translation has been published. This time, Professor Dong Shubao, the translator of The Archaeology of Knowledge (2021 edition), Chaotic Interpenetration, and The Deleuze Philosophical Glossary, has finally completed this translation challenge.
★ 34 paradoxes + 5 papers:
In this book, Deleuze uses 34 short essays to discuss the paradox that has been an inseparable part of the entire development of Western philosophy. These essays, while both self-contained and closely intertwined, represent not only a philosophical breakthrough for Deleuze but also a significant experiment in his philosophical writing. The five appendices focus on the philosophical conditions in the works of Plato, Lucretius, Klossowski, Tournier, and Zola, while remaining true to the book's overarching theme of paradox.
★ From Alice in Wonderland to Stoicism:
So, what is the "paradox" that Deleuze refers to? Simply put, it's like the saying "self-evident"—if it's not stated, how can we understand it? The ancient Greek Stoic school developed this seemingly simple paradox into a powerful paradoxical philosophy. Lewis Carroll masterfully applied this paradoxical philosophy in his globally popular Alice in Wonderland. For the little girl Alice, "getting bigger" is equivalent to "getting smaller," "eating" is equivalent to "being eaten," and "turning red" is equivalent to "turning green." This is where the series of incisive analyses in The Logic of Meaning begins.
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The Logic of Sense should be read, in particular, as the most daring and arrogant treatise on metaphysics ever written.
—Michel Foucault, The Theatre of Philosophy (1970)
I reread his view of the “event”, which he had already discussed in 1969 in one of his greatest works, The Logic of Meaning (…). Of course, for me, from the very beginning, all his works (but above all Nietzsche and Philosophy, Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Meaning) have been not only a powerful invitation to think, but also such a disturbing experience.
—Jacques Derrida, “I Will Have to Wander Alone” (1995 tribute to Deleuze)
In Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense, he did his best to provide a comprehensive programmatic statement of this postphilosophical, anti-systematic, trans-nominalist, or resolutely "non-totalizing" mode of thought.
—Christopher Norris, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy

2024-04-01

上海文艺出版社

New Thinking

532

9787532189281