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.
Oriented by the new Americanist perspective, this book constitutes a rereading of Herman Melville's most prominent fiction after Moby-Dick.
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11.
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.
Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.
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 ...
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.
In this groundbreaking work, William V. Spanos offers a powerful contribution to the impassioned debates about the crisis of the humanities.