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On Tarrying

by Joseph Vogl
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781906497989
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Seagull Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 128
  • Original Price: INR 425.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 273 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / German

About the Book Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, and decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy, and political theory, and have left their imprint on the most intimate processes of individual decision-making and geo-political strategies. But, in "On Tarrying," Joseph Vogl argues for a third way, a mode of thought that doesn t insist on these divisive either/ors. Neither an active refusal to engage with the world nor a consistent strategy of resistance, tarrying, as defined by Vogl, defers, multiplies, and suspends the strictures of decision-making. In his far-ranging reflections Vogl shows that the traditional insistence on the exclusivity of these terms impoverishes and distorts the range of human responses to a world full of possibilities. His readings of texts by Freud, Sophocles, Friedrich Schiller, Robert Musil, and Franz Kafka provide rich examples of how to resist the binary of activity and passivity through tarrying. This important book offers the first-ever extended analysis of tarrying as a mode of subversion andpresents provocative new readings and interpretations of significant works of German literature and thought. "

Joseph Vogl is professor of modern German literature, cultural studies, and media at the Humboldt University in Berlin and is currently a visiting professor of German at Princeton University. His books include Place of Violence: Kafka's Literary Ethics and Law and Judgement: Contributions to a Theory of Politics. Helmut Müller-Sievers is the Eaton Professor of Humanities and Arts and the director of the Center for the Humanities and Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His other books include The Cylinder: Kinematics of the 19th Century.

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