Cover; Contents; Foreword: Witness to the Critical Imperatives of the Interregnum; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Nothingness of Being and the Spectacle: The American Sublime Revisited; 2. American Exceptionalism in the Post-9/11 Era: The Myth and the Reality; 3. "The Center Will Not Hold": The Widening Gyre of the New, New Americanist Studies; 4. 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; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T
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
