Abstract

Deleuze’s Logic of Sense should be taken as an attempt to respond to the need to reverse classical Aristotelian logic, a need which is proposed first by the ancient Stoics, then by Lewis Carroll, and finally by the emergence of modern logic in the works of Frege and Russell. Deleuze, in Logic of Sense, gives an extensive account of these moments in the history of logic and takes them as his departure point to formulate his logic of sense. In this and the next chapters, I study the relationship between Deleuze’s logic and modern logic by focusing on the work of Gottlob Frege before continuing on to Deleuze’s reading of the Stoics and of Lewis Carroll in the following chapters.