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Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum : An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation / William V. Spanos.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823268153
  • 9780823268184
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.20973 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Nothingness of Being and the Spectacle -- Chapter 2. American Exceptionalism in the Post-9/11 Era -- Chapter 3. "The Center Will Not Hold" -- Chapter 4. American Exceptionalism and the Calling -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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."

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Nothingness of Being and the Spectacle -- Chapter 2. American Exceptionalism in the Post-9/11 Era -- Chapter 3. "The Center Will Not Hold" -- Chapter 4. American Exceptionalism and the Calling -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index

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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."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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