Redeemer nation in the interregnum : an untimely meditation on the American vocation

Redeemer nation in the interregnum : an untimely meditation on the American vocation /

"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...

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Main Author: Spanos, William V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Exceptionalism > United States.
Political culture > United States.
Democracy > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Democracy
Exceptionalism
Political culture
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : Witness to the Critical Imperatives of the Interregnum / by Donald E. Pease
  • The Nothingness of Being and the Spectacle : The American Sublime Revisited
  • American Exceptionalism in the Post-9/11 Era : The Myth and the Reality
  • "The Center Will Not Hold" : The Widening Gyre of the New, New Americanist Studies
  • American Exceptionalism and the Calling : A Genealogy of the Vocational Ethic
  • Appendix: The Debate World and the Making of the American Political Class : An Interview Conducted by Christopher Spurlock with William V. Spanos.

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