03381nam 2200661 450 991046533960332120210430214828.00-8232-7246-X0-8232-6819-50-8232-6818-710.1515/9780823268184(CKB)3710000000747365(EBL)4545504(StDuBDS)EDZ0001375190(OCoLC)938785337(MdBmJHUP)muse46335(MiAaPQ)EBC4545504(DE-B1597)555065(DE-B1597)9780823268184(Au-PeEL)EBL4545504(CaPaEBR)ebr11237387(OCoLC)945735661(OCoLC)972628564(EXLCZ)99371000000074736520160812h20162016 uy 0engur|nu---|u||urdacontentrdamediardacarrierRedeemer nation in the interregnum an untimely meditation on the American vocation /William V. Spanos ; foreword by Donald E. PeaseFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (209 p.)Includes index.0-8232-6816-0 0-8232-6815-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --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 --IndexRedeemer 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.”ExceptionalismUnited StatesPolitical cultureUnited StatesDemocracyUnited StatesElectronic books.ExceptionalismPolitical cultureDemocracy306.20973Spanos William V.465317Pease Donald E.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465339603321Redeemer nation in the interregnum2478620UNINA