SOURCE: A review of The Logic of Sense, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. XI, No. 5, October, 1991, pp. 307-09.

In the following review, Flynn summarizes Deleuze's conceptual apparatus in The Logic of Sense.

In The Logic of Sense, originally published in France in 1969, Deleuze establishes a systematic opposition between sense and meaning. He does this in large measure by presenting commentaries on both the writings of Lewis Carroll and the works of the Stoic philosophers; and also by making interesting digressions on the writings of Malcolm Lowry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Antonin Artaud and Plato. This brief review will attempt to outline the parameters of Deleuze's conceptual apparatus (these words being used advisedly) while, as much as possible, abstracting from the details of his commentaries.

Meaning or ‘good sense’, ‘common sense’, sets up enclosures and is ‘inseparable from the agrarian problem’ (76). It moves from the singular to the regular, from...