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4 - Logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

Miguel Beistegui
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
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Initially (and systematically) broached in Spinoza and the Problem of Expression, where it characterises the nature of the relation between substance, attributes and modes, the problem of expression reappears in Logic of Sense. Now the focus is on expression as what designates the operation of sense. In both instances, expression enables an immanent conception of its subject matter. Sense is no exception to what we could characterise as the metaphysical, or onto- theological, drive to transcendence. Indeed, too often, Deleuze argues, sense is represented as a Principle, Reservoir, Reserve or Origin. As a ‘celestial’ or ‘divine principle’, it is understood to be fundamentally forgotten and veiled; as a ‘subterranean’ (or human) principle, it is understood to be erased, hijacked or alienated. It becomes a question, therefore, of re- establishing or recovering sense beneath the erasure and under the veil, either in a God that one would have never sufficiently understood, or in a humanity that one would have never adequately explored. It is in vain that we replace Man with God, however, if we remain ultimately trapped in anthropomorphism. Equally, it is in vain that we replace the true and the false with sense and value, as Nietzsche suggests, if we persist in thinking the latter by means of the former, as if it were a question of discovering or uncovering something essentially hidden. Such is the reason why, for Nietzsche, the problem is primarily that of the overhuman, and not that of humanity.

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Immanence
Deleuze and Philosophy
, pp. 77 - 104
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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