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A William V. Spanos Reader : Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Spanos, William V. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Martin, Michelle, 1977-, Pease, Donald E. (Editor ), O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Prophet without a God? secular humanist, par excellence / Daniel T. O'Hara
  • Existentialism and the postmodern turn
  • Modern literary criticism and the spatialization of time : an existential critique
  • The detective and the boundary : some notes on the postmodern literary imagination
  • Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and the hermeneutic circle : toward a postmodern theory of interpretation as dis-closure
  • Hermeneutics and memory : destroying T.S. Eliot's Four quartets
  • Charles Olson and negative capability : a phenomenological interpretation
  • Leo Tolstoy's The death of Ivan Ilych : a temporal interpretation
  • Humanism and the post-structuralist turn
  • Boundary 2 and the polity of interest : humanism, the "center elsewhere," and power
  • The Apollonian investment of modern humanist education : the examples of Matthew Arnold, Irving Babbitt, and L.A. Richards
  • Culture and colonization : the imperial imperatives of the centered circle
  • Heidegger, Foucault, and the "empire of the gaze" : thinking the territorialization of knowledge
  • "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the scrivener" : reflections on the American calling
  • American exceptionalism and the secular turn
  • The question of philosophy and poiesis in the post-historical age : thinking/imagining the shadow of metaphysics
  • Edward Said's humanism and American exceptionalism : an interrogation after 9/11
  • Herman Melville's Pierre; or, the ambiguities and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park : the imperial violence of the novel of manners
  • The calling and the question of the secular
  • Arab Spring, 2011 : a symptomatic reading of the revolution
  • In lieu of a conclusion: a discussion between William V. Spanos and Donald E. Pease.