William V Spanos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William V Spanos |
| GIVEN NAMES | William V |
| FAMILY NAME | Spanos |
| SIGNATURE | SPANOS W V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Specter of History
Countering the representation of the end of the Cold War as the end of History, this essay argues for the urgent need to think the positive, anti-imperialist, possibilities for thought and practice of the Heideggerian "Nothing" that, in different forms, haunts liberal capitalist democracy
Bill Spanos In Conversation
On the morning of 2 February 2001, Dawne McCance (DM) and Robert Kroetsch (RK) conducted the following interview on haunting with William Spanos (WS) at his home in Castle Creek, New York. This interview was originally published in the December 2001 issue of Mosaic (34.4)
Vietnam and the Pax Americana
William V. Spanos’s chapter “Vietnam and the Pax Americana: A Genealogy of the ‘New World Order’” was originally published in his book-length study entitled America’s Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire (1999) and is here reprinted, courtesy of the University of Minnesota Press. Spanos’s prescient, unrelenting, and wide-ranging analysis of the consequences of the Vietnam War argues that the contemporary moment—including the Gulf War, Operation Hope in S…
Edward W. Said and Zionism
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 of the land occupied by empire as “terra nullius.” This essay retrieves Said's “Canaanite” reading of Michael Waltzer's Exodus and Revolution, in which the latter invokes, above a…
Eis tin Polis
Research Article| February 01 2008 Eis tin Polis: Istanbul, December 1969 William V. Spanos William V. Spanos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 127–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William V. Spanos; Eis tin Polis: Istanbul, December 1969. boundary 2 1 February 2008; 35 (1): 127–168. do…
American Exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the Frontier
Research Article| February 01 2007 American Exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the Frontier: From the Puritans to the Neo-Con-Men William V. Spanos William V. Spanos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 35–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-026 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ic…
Cuvier's Little Bone
It was Gramsci's great historical insight that the anachronicity of the Marxist base/superstructure as model for the interpretation of lived social relations enabled him to collapse its hierarchized disciplinary structure and to retrieve the indissoluble relationality of the “fields” of knowledge production—being, the subject, culture, politics—that had hitherto been epiphenomenal to economics. The foregrounding of this relationality, as well as …
A Rumor of War
Edward Said's Mount Hermon and Mine
Research Article| August 01 2001 Edward Said's Mount Hermon and Mine: A Forwarding Remembrance William V. Spanos William V. Spanos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 157–189. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-3-157 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Pierre's Extraordinary Emergency
Research Article| August 01 2001 Pierre's Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and “the Voice of Silence,” Part 2 William V. Spanos William V. Spanos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 133–155. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-3-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William V. Spanos; Pierre's Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and “th…
Pierre's Extraordinary Emergency
Research Article| May 01 2001 Pierre's Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and “the Voice of Silence,” Part 1 William V. Spanos William V. Spanos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 105–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-28-2-105 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William V. Spanos; Pierre's Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and “the V…
The Question of Philosophy and Poiesis in the Posthistorical Age
Research Article| February 01 2000 The Question of Philosophy and Poiesis in the Posthistorical Age: Thinking/Imagining the Shadow of Metaphysics William V. Spanos William V. Spanos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 151–174. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-1-151 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William V. Spanos; The Question of…
Althusser's “Problematic” in the Context of the Vietnam War
Culture and Colonization
"The Errant Art of "Moby-Dick
Heidegger And Criticism
Heidegger, Nazism, and the Repressive Hypothesis
A Conversation with William V. Spanos
The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Education
The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Education
William V. Spanos, The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Education: The Examples of Matthew Arnold, Irving Babbitt, and I. A. Richards (Part Two), Cultural Critique, No. 2 (Winter, 1985-1986), pp. 105-134
The Uses and Abuses of Certainty
William V. Spanos, The Uses and Abuses of Certainty: A Caviling Overture, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 1-17
Boundary 2 and the Polity of Interest
William V. Spanos, Boundary 2 and the Polity of Interest: Humanism, the "Center Elsewhere," and Power, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 173-214
Hays Discussion
Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Michael Hays, William Spanos, Manfred Frank, Christian Hart Nibbrig, Patrice Pavis, Glenn Most, , Jean Bollack, Hays Discussion, boundary 2, Vol. 11, No. 3, The Criticism of Peter Szondi (Spring, 1983), pp. 83-91
The End of Education
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like ours, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it allows the well-trodden battlelines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and power it carries with it
"The "Nameless Horror
So if you want to know why Melville nailed us in MobyDick, consider whaling. Consider whaling as a FRONTIER, and INDUSTRY. A product wanted, men got it: big business. The Pacific as sweatshop. Man, led, against the biggest damndest creature nature uncorks. The whale-ship as factory, the whaleboat the precision instrument. The 1840s: The New West in the saddle and Melville No. 20 of a rough and bastard crew. Are they the essentials? Charles Olson,…
American Exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the Frontier
Research Article| February 01 2007 American Exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the Frontier: From the Puritans to the Neo-Con-Men William V. Spanos William V. Spanos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 35–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2006-026 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ic…
Althusser's “Problematic” in the Context of the Vietnam War
The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Education
Boundary 2 and the Polity of Interest
William V. Spanos, Boundary 2 and the Polity of Interest: Humanism, the "Center Elsewhere," and Power, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 173-214
The End of Education
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like ours, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it allows the well-trodden battlelines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and power it carries with it
Repetition in The Waste Land
Breaking the Circle
A Dialogue on Oral Poetry with William Spanos
horror, we must regain the sense of the totality and the immediacy of human experience. In order to determine where we are, we must learn, syllable by syllable, where we have been. The sense of history is, for society in crisis, what relentless self-searching, psychoanalytic or otherwise, is for the individual in crisis, that is, it can be releasing and enriching, cathartic and creative; it may be the only thing that can save our lives. History i…
The Detective and the Boundary
All the plays that have And any explanation will satisfy: ever been written, from ancient We only ask to be reassured Greece to the present day, About the noises in the cellar have never really been anything And the window that should not have but thrillers, been open. Drama's always been realistic Why do we all behave as if the door and there's always been a might suddenly open, the detective about. Every curtain be drawn, play's an investigatio…
The Critical Imperatives of Alienation
Modern Drama and the Aristotelian Tradition
life-denying inorganic, which has its source in whatWorringer calls immense spiritual dread of space, a space including, of course, 18 Spatial Form, p. 21. All Frank's quotations from Proust derive from The Past Recaptured of Remembrance of Things Past, vol. II, trans. Frederick A. Blossom (New York, 1932), pp. 991-996. Two further extracts from Proust should indicate his debt to and spatial interpretation of Bergson's duree. But let a sound alre…
The Detective and the Boundary
All the plays that have And any explanation will satisfy: ever been written, from ancient We only ask to be reassured Greece to the present day, About the noises in the cellar have never really been anything And the window that should not have but thrillers, been open. Drama's always been realistic Why do we all behave as if the door and there's always been a might suddenly open, the detective about. Every curtain be drawn, play's an investigatio…
At a Trolley Stop
The Art of Antonis Kiriakoulis
David Ignatow. A Dialogue with William Spanos
A Correspondence with the Editors, William V. Spanos and Robert Kroetsch
David Antin, William V. Spanos, Robert Kroetsch, A Correspondence with the Editors, William V. Spanos and Robert Kroetsch, boundary 2, Vol. 3, No. 3, The Oral Impulse in Contemporary American Poetry (Spring, 1975), pp. 595-652
A Dialogue on Oral Poetry with William Spanos
horror, we must regain the sense of the totality and the immediacy of human experience. In order to determine where we are, we must learn, syllable by syllable, where we have been. The sense of history is, for society in crisis, what relentless self-searching, psychoanalytic or otherwise, is for the individual in crisis, that is, it can be releasing and enriching, cathartic and creative; it may be the only thing that can save our lives. History i…
Paintings from the Festival of Avignon
Martin Heidegger and Literature
Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and the Hermeneutic Circle
William V. Spanos, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and the Hermeneutic Circle: Towards a Postmodern Theory of Interpretation as Dis-Closure, boundary 2, Vol. 4, No. 2, Martin Heidegger and Literature (Winter, 1976), pp. 455-488
Breaking the Circle
The Art of Don DeMauro
The Fact of Firstness
This special issue of boundary 2 on the work of Robert Creeley represents, for me, a first gathering of a continuing dialogue with Creeley's writing that began in the spring of 1965 on the occasion of his visit to Knox College to read and to talk on the contemporary literary scene. At that time, I, like most everyone else in the academy, was disseminating in my classrooms the established New Critical doctrines of the autonomy of the poem, the pri…
Talking with Robert Creeley
Repetition in The Waste Land
"The "Nameless Horror
So if you want to know why Melville nailed us in MobyDick, consider whaling. Consider whaling as a FRONTIER, and INDUSTRY. A product wanted, men got it: big business. The Pacific as sweatshop. Man, led, against the biggest damndest creature nature uncorks. The whale-ship as factory, the whaleboat the precision instrument. The 1840s: The New West in the saddle and Melville No. 20 of a rough and bastard crew. Are they the essentials? Charles Olson,…
Martin Heidegger and the Question of Literature
The End of Education
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like ours, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it allows the well-trodden battlelines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and power it carries with it
Hays Discussion
Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Michael Hays, William Spanos, Manfred Frank, Christian Hart Nibbrig, Patrice Pavis, Glenn Most, , Jean Bollack, Hays Discussion, boundary 2, Vol. 11, No. 3, The Criticism of Peter Szondi (Spring, 1983), pp. 83-91
The Uses and Abuses of Certainty
William V. Spanos, The Uses and Abuses of Certainty: A Caviling Overture, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 1-17
Boundary 2 and the Polity of Interest
William V. Spanos, Boundary 2 and the Polity of Interest: Humanism, the "Center Elsewhere," and Power, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 173-214
The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Education
The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Education
William V. Spanos, The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Education: The Examples of Matthew Arnold, Irving Babbitt, and I. A. Richards (Part Two), Cultural Critique, No. 2 (Winter, 1985-1986), pp. 105-134
Heidegger, Nazism, and the Repressive Hypothesis
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