On Tarrying

Joseph Vogl (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

140 Seiten

2019
Seagull Books London Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85742-724-3 (ISBN)

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Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, 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 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.

Vogl's readings of texts by Freud, Schiller, Sophocles, Musil and Kafka provide rich examples of how to resist the binary of activity and passivity through tarrying. The first extended analysis of tarrying as a mode of subversion, this book presents provocative new readings of major works of world literature and thought.

Joseph Vogl is professor of modern German literature, media and cultural studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2019
Übersetzer	Helmut Mller-Sievers
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	Greenford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-85742-724-5 / 0857427245
ISBN-13	978-0-85742-724-3 / 9780857427243
Zustand	Neuware