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On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum
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 …
Errant Art of Moby-Dick
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 …
The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception
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. …
Exiles in the City
Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint, by William V. Spanos, explores the affiliative relationship between Arendt's and Said's thought, not simply …
Toward a Non-humanist Humanism
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 …
The Legacy of Edward W. Said
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 …
In the Neighborhood of Zero
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 …
Exiles in the City
The Errant Art of Moby-Dick
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 …
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum
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 …
Toward a Non-humanist Humanism
On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum
This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees and emigres seeking -indeed, demanding- an …