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21 produkter
Legacy of Edward W. Said
Häftad, 2009
359 kr
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With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the neoconservative right have already begun to discredit Said’s work as that of a subversive intent on …
Legacy of Edward W. Said
E-bok, 2010
653 kr
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With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the neoconservative right have already begun to discredit Said’s work as that of a subversive intent on …
Herman Melville and the American Calling
The Fiction after Moby-Dick, 1851-1857
Häftad, 2009
532 kr
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Argues that Herman Melville's later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U.S.-led global "war on terror."Oriented by the new Americanist perspective, this book constitutes a rereading of Herman Melville's most prominent fiction after Moby-Dick. In …
In the Neighborhood of Zero
A World War II Memoir
Inbunden, 2010
368 kr
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Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary as the Battle of the Bulge, he was separated from his antitank gun crew and taken prisoner in the …
America's Shadow
An Anatomy of Empire
Häftad, 2000
311 kr
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Examines the mind-set of Western imperialism from its origins in the Roman Empire to the Vietnam War.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. Rather than locating its …
Errant Art of Moby-Dick
The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies
Häftad, 1995
510 kr
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In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick-a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its …
Errant Art of Moby-Dick
The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies
E-bok, 1995
749 kr
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In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick —a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its …
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum
An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation
Inbunden, 2016
1527 kr
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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 …
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum
An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation
Häftad, 2016
412 kr
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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 …
Toward a Non-humanist Humanism
Theory after 9/11
Inbunden, 2017
1743 kr
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Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.In his book The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism, William V. Spanos critiqued the traditional Western concept of humanism, arguing that its origins are to be found not in …
On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum
Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West
Inbunden, 2017
665 kr
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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. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World …
On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum
Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West
E-bok, 2017
873 kr
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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. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World …
On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum
Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West
Häftad, 2018
665 kr
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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. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World …
Legacy of Edward W. Said
Inbunden, 2009
1409 kr
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With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the neoconservative right have already begun to discredit Said’s work as that of a subversive intent on …
American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization
The Specter of Vietnam
Inbunden, 2008
1144 kr
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Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers-Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien-whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in …
American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization
The Specter of Vietnam
Häftad, 2008
435 kr
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Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers-Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien-whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in …
Herman Melville and the American Calling
The Fiction after Moby-Dick, 1851-1857
Inbunden, 2008
1278 kr
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Argues that Herman Melville's later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U.S.-led global "war on terror."Oriented by the new Americanist perspective, this book constitutes a rereading of Herman Melville's most prominent fiction after Moby-Dick. In …
Errant Art of Moby-Dick
The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies
Inbunden, 1995
1626 kr
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In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick-a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its …
Toward a Non-humanist Humanism
Theory after 9/11
Häftad, 2017
462 kr
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Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.In his book The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism, William V. Spanos critiqued the traditional Western concept of humanism, arguing that its origins are to be found not in …
Shock and Awe
Häftad, 2013
727 kr
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Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain's classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, providing a fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary. …
