- Email:
- joturk@iu.edu
- Website:
- https://germanic.indiana.edu/about/core-faculty/turk-johannes.html
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
I work on continental philosophy, the history of knowledge, trauma theory, aesthetic theory and the German and the European novel. My Die Immunität der Literatur (S. Fischer, 2011) is an archeology of immunity, from antiquity to twentieth-century biomedical sciences. The book investigates the eighteenth-century debate on inoculation and the use of the first medical prophylaxis as a paradigm for artistic production. I am finishing a book that examines exemption as the defining gesture of sovereignty and working on another, The Modernity of Insult, that investigates the relationship between legitimization and affect.