Spanos considers and assesses the work of thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Rancière, and Slavoj i ek as humanistic reformers and concludes with an effort to imagine a different kind of humanism a ...
Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of TwainÕs classic A Connecticut Yankee in King ArthurÕs Court, providing a fresh assessment of the place of a global America ...
As such, this work is a major intervention in Melville studies, American literature studies, and the culture of criticism generally."--Daniel O'Hara, Temple University
This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world’s population has been transformed into a society of refugees and émigrés seeking –indeed, demanding– an alternative way of political belonging.
William V. Spanos / Abraham, Sisyphus, and the Furies -- Literature: Ernest Hemingway / A clean, well-lighted place -- Franz Kafka / A country doctor -- Albert Camus / The guest -- Jean-Paul Sartre / The flies -- Friedrich Durrenmatt / The ...
Explores the affiliative relationship between Arendt's and Said's thought: their mutual emphasis on the importance of the exilic consciousness, and the oppositional politics that a displaced consciousness enables.