... 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 American studies hermeneutics ontology pedagogy theory Scholarship in the Neighborhood of Zero: William V. Spanos in Theory and Practice David S. Randall and Robert P. Wilson This special issue of boundary 2 has...

... century or so has so accurately and even defiantly anticipated the future conditions of human life on the planet? © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 zero late style firebombing memoir William V. Spanos Is in the Neighborhood Daniel T...

...Robert P. Marzec This essay situates the critical work of William V. Spanos in relation to the liminal event of anthropocentric planetary climate change—specifically the manner in which this event is being subordinated to military ends by the US national security state in particular and the global...

...Mina Karavanta This essay discusses William V. Spanos’s work as the legacy of what can be called “ontopolitical criticism.” Spanos’s affiliation between texts and the world discloses the overlapping of the history of imperialistic and colonial violence with the politics of ontology, which...

...Ubaraj Katawal This article examines William V. Spanos’s works in relation to those of other postcolonial thinkers such as Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Edward Said. Like many of these writers, Spanos draws from Michel Foucault’s critique of the power-knowledge relation. However...

...Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott From the beginning, the work of William V. Spanos has been characterized by a secular vocation, the confrontation with historical relations of power and subordination. His writings on American literature, contemporary humanities, and the Harvard Red Book, along with his...

...Jeanette McVicker The classroom is arguably the space where all of William V. Spanos’s work intersects. Delivered always with a sense of urgency, his pedagogy seeks to disclose the violence of “disinterestedness” inhering in liberal humanism. By offering his undergraduate and graduate students...

...Michael Clark Although they came from strikingly different backgrounds, both William V. Spanos and Theodor W. Adorno were radically transformed by the historical circumstances of World War II. Both recounted those experiences in memoirs that questioned the degeneration of rationality...

...Jonathan Arac William V. Spanos’s most recent book, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” (2013), offers the occasion to reflect on the distinctive quality of his long, productive career. His work...

... of poststructural ontology into a positive force for shaping ethical responsibility, with no positive term. Seeing Critchley’s problems sets off, by contrast, the importance of William V. Spanos’s work because he retained in his postmodernist thinking the importance of Martin Heidegger’s sense of event...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 157 of 237 The Question of Philosophy and Poiesis in the Posthistorical Age: Thinking/Imagining the Shadow of Metaphysics...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2001 Pierre’s Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and ‘‘the Voice of Silence Part 1 William V. Spanos Anxiety reveals the nothing. —Martin Heidegger, ‘‘What Is Metaphysics...

...William V. Spanos In The Question of Palestine and elsewhere, Edward Said locates the “justificatory regime” that Zionism has developed to interpose between its Palestinian victims and itself in the discourse of nineteenth-century British imperialism, by which he means the representation...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2001 Pierre’s Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and ‘‘the Voice of Silence Part 2 William V. Spanos Silence permeates all things, and produced its magical power, as well during...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2007 American Exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the Frontier: From the Puritans to the Neo-Con-Men William V. Spanos In short, with all sorts of cavilers, it was best [according...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2001 Edward Said’s Mount Hermon and Mine: A Forwarding Remembrance William V. Spanos But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. —Andrew Marvell...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 33 of 252 6943 boundar A Rumor of War: 9/11 and the Forgetting of the Vietnam War William V. Spanos...

...William V. Spanos © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Eis tin Polis: Istanbul, December 1969 William V. Spanos A boundary is not that at which something stops but, as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which...

... to a preexisting mode of liter- ary production, or sorted within any of the extant institutionalized academic disciplines, the assessment of his inheritable thought is connected to ques- tions of its reception and transmittal. Throughout his career, William V. Spanos has associated his critical...

... has been a privilege and a pleasure. Here’s to you, Bill, in unconditional ontico-­ontological solidarity. 1. William V. Spanos, The Legacy of Edward W. Said (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009), x. boundary 2 42:1 (2015) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2828254 © 2015 by Duke University Press...