On Tarrying
Joseph VoglWestern 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 and presents provocative new readings and interpretations of significant works of German literature and thought.
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Münih ve Paris'te Alman dili ve edebiyatı, felsefe ve tarih okuduktan sonra Humboldt ve Princeton üniversitelerinde ders veren edebiyatbilimci Joseph Vogl yapısalcılık sonrası felsefe geleneğinin içinde yer alıyor. Gilles Deleuze ve François Lyotard'ın temel yapıtlarını çevirerek Almancaya kazandıran Vogl'ın çalıştığı ana alanlar edebiyatbilim, tarih, medya ve söylem teorisi. 1998'de DVA (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt) Vakfı'nın çeviri ödülünü kazanan yazarın Goethe, Kafka ve Nietzsche üzerine monografi ve makaleleri de bulunuyor. Çok sayıda kitabın editörlüğünü yapmış ve Tereddüt Üzerine (2008) dışında şu kitapları kaleme almıştır: Kalkül und Leidenschaft. Poetik des ökonomischen Menschen (2002), Gesetz und Urteil. Beiträge zu einer Theorie des Politischen (2004), Für alle und keinen. Lektüre, Schrift und Leben bei Nietzsche und Kafka (2008), (Alexander Kluge ile birlikte) Soll und Haben. Fernsehgespräche (2009), Ort der Gewalt. Kafkas literarische Ethik (2010) ve Das Gespenst des Kapitals (2010).
