On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum: Essays in Loving Strife from Sore

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On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum

by William V. Spanos

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 alternative way of political belonging.

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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 alternative way of political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World War II—and especially after 9/11— it constitutes a series of genealogical chapters that trace the author's journey from his experience as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany to the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. In doing so, it explores his search for an intellectual vocation adequate to the dislocating epiphany he experienced in bearing witness to these traumatising events. Having subsequently lost faith in the logic of belonging perpetuated by the nation-state, Spanos charts how he began to look in the rubble of that zero zone for an alternative way of belonging: one in which the old binary —whose imperative was based on the violence of the Friend/enemy opposition— was replaced by a paradoxical loving strife that enriched rather than negated the potential of each side. The chapters in this book trace this errant vocational itinerary, from the author's early undergraduate engagement with Kierkegaard and Heidegger to Cornel West, moving from that disclosive occasion in the zero zone to this present moment.

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This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees and

Author Biography

William V. Spanos is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University (State University of New York), USA, and the founding editor of boundary 2:a journal of postmodern literature and culture which he edited from 1970-1987. He is the author of over hundred essays and many books on subject ranging from modernist and postmodernist literature, poststructuralist theory, and New Americanist studies.

Table of Contents

Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1:  Retrieving Kierkegaard for the Post-9/11 Occasion:  A Late Meditation on the SecularChapter 2:  Heidegger and Das Nichts:  An Autobiographical Meditation on the Question of the NothingChapter 3:  The Enigma of T. S. Eliot:  An Autobiographical Essay on the  Contradictions between His Poetry and ProseChapter 4:  On the Place ofExcrement:  My Relation to the Poetry of William Butler YeatsChapter 5:  Hannah Arendt, Non-Jewish Jew:  Our ContemporaryChapter 6:  Edward W. Said and William V. Spanos:  A Contrapuntal     AffiliationChapter 7:  Robert Kroetsch, Play, and the Specter:  A Meditation on a   FriendshipChapter 8:  A "Mad Generosity:  Retrieving John GardnerChapter 9:  Robert Creeley,  Quintessential American Poet:  A Dialogue with a Departed FriendChapter 10:  Cornel West:  My Black-American BrotherIndex

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"In Loving Strife, Spanos writes something like an intellectual autobiography in a series of essays, each of which revisits predecessors and contemporaries whose work has mattered in his life and career. All the more remarkable for the circumstances of their composition, these essays align an important intellectual's sense of his engaged and creative inheritance with the modern minds that mattered most to his life and work." (Paul A. Bove, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA) "The history of ideas is sometimes viewed as an infinite conversation. In this book, William V. Spanos discloses the ways in which his own thinking has emerged from spirited conversations with others via a process he calls "a loving strife." Reflecting on his encounters with ten 'inaugural' figures-from Soren Kierkegaard to Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, and Cornel West-Spanos provides a genealogy both of his own critical theory and the postnational world in which we live." (Robert T. Tally Jr., Associate Professor of English, Texas State University, USA)

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Takes a unique, autobiographical approach to engagement with key modern philosophical concepts Draws on direct personal experience with some of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers Offers an alternative model of academic analysis by one of postmodern literature's seminal critics

Details ISBN3319478702 Author William V. Spanos Language English ISBN-10 3319478702 ISBN-13 9783319478708 Format Hardcover Pages 140 Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-01-26 Media Book Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Edition 1st Subtitle Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West Short Title On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47871-5 UK Release Date 2017-01-26 Illustrations XX, 140 p. Edited by Claudio Agostino Ardagna Birth 1945 Affiliation University of Southern Queensland Position Professor Qualifications PhD Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2016 Series Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination Alternative 9783319838465 DEWEY 190 Audience Professional & Vocational

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  • Condition: Brand New
  • ISBN-13: 9783319478708
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum: Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West
  • Item Height: 210mm
  • Author: William V. Spanos
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing Ag
  • Topic: Literature
  • Item Width: 148mm
  • Item Weight: 348g
  • Number of Pages: 140 Pages

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