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Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold War-era belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it operationalizes an apparatus of biopolitical capture that saturates the American body politic down to its capillaries.The exceptionalism that Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum renders starkly visible is not a corrigible ideological screen. It is a deeply structured ethos that functions simultaneously on ontological, moral, economic, racial, gendered, and political registers as the American Calling. Precisely by refusing to answer the American Calling, by rendering inoperative (in Agamben's sense) its covenantal summons, Spanos enables us to imagine an alternative America.At once timely and personal, Spanos's meditation acknowledges the priority of being. He emphasizes the dignity not simply of humanity but of all phenomena on the continuum of being, "the groundless ground of any political formation that would claim the name of democracy."

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Publié par	Fordham University Press
Date de parution	26 février 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780823268184
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Spanos, William V. Redeemer nation in te interregnum : an untimely meditation on te American vocation / William V. Spanos ; foreword by Donald E. Pease. — First edition. pages cm Includes bibliograpical references and index. ISBN ---- (ardback) — ISBN ---- (paper) . Exceptionalism—United States. . Political culture—United States. . Democracy—United States. I. Title. E..S  .—dc 

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Dedicated to Paul Bové, Daniel O’Hara, and Donald Pease,

te profane Trinity— te noting, te ﬁre, and te unoly bird— wose polyvalent force as guided me in my destruction of te American world I live in and my imaging of te polis tat will arise from its ases

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Foreword: Witness to te Critical Imperatives of te Interregnumby Donald E. PeasePreface Acknowledgments

he Notingness of Being and te Spectacle: he American Sublime Revisited American Exceptionalism in te Post–/ Era: he Myt and te Reality “he Center Will Not Hold”: he Widening Gyre of te New, New Americanist Studies American Exceptionalism and te Calling: A Genealogy of te Vocational Etic

Appendix: he Debate World and te Making of te American Political Class—An Interview Conducted by Cristoper Spurlock wit William V. Spanos

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Foreword

Witness to the Critical Imperatives of the Interregnum

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William V. Spanos’sRedeemer Nation in te Interregnum: An Untimely Meditation on te American Vocationbrings to fruition and provides te coda for a series of remarkable volumes—he Exceptionalist State and te State of Exception: Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd, Sailor”();Herman Melville and te American Calling: he Fiction After “Moby-Dick,” – ();andSock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and te Impera-tives of te Spectacle in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Artur’s Court”()—in wic Spanos undertook a radical critique of American exceptionalism. In conducting tat ongoing critique, Spanos brougt togeter two critical dispositions—Gramsci’s dismantling of egemony as a “coercive ideological proect tat represents itself as uni-versal trut and ﬁnds its fulﬁllment in te ‘end of istory’ ” and Hei-degger’s destruction of “te global triump of te imperial logic of egemony.” his study continues Spanos’s criticaldestruktionof American exceptionalism, but itdiﬀers from its precursors in tat Spanos attests to te emergence of a way of being tat coincides wit te revocation of te American exceptionalist calling. he prase “An Untimely Meditation on te American Vocation” indicates wat sets tis volume apart from Spanos’s preceding volumes. InRedeemer Nation in te Interregnum, Spanos engages te polyvalent ideological connotations tat resonate around “American exceptional-ism” wen it is understood as te foundational trope of te American national identity. Wereas te vast maority of commentators on te term ave interpreted American exceptionalism as an ideological mystiﬁcation

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