For Spanos, this was never a "war story.

The American critic William V. Spanos, a pioneer of postmodern theory and co-founder of one of its principal organs, the journal boundary 2, is, in the words of A William V. Spanos Reader coeditor Daniel T. O¡¦Hara, everything that current ...

This book is intended for those in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, political theory.

Spanos examines Said, his legacy, and the various texts he wrote--including Orientalism,Culture and Imperialism, and Humanism and Democratic Criticism--that are now being considered for their lasting political impact.

Argues that Herman Melville¡¦s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U.S.-led global ¡§war on terror.¡¨

In this groundbreaking work, William V. Spanos offers a powerful contribution to the impassioned debates about the crisis of the humanities.

Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11.

A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post-Cold War World, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West.

Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.

Critics predominantly view Herman Melville¡¦s Billy Budd, Sailor as a ¡§testament of acceptance,¡¨ the work of a man who had become politically conservative in his last years.