Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum by William V. Spanos, Dona... - 9780823268153

Redeemer Nation in the InterregnumAn Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation\nAuthor(s): William V. Spanos, Donald E. Pease\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823268153, 978-0823268153\nSynopsis\nRedeemer 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 Warera belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it operationalizes an apparatus of biopolitical capture that saturates the American body politic down to its capillaries.\n The exceptionalism that Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum renders starkly visible is not a corrigible ideological screen. It is a deeply structured ethos that functions simultaneously on ontological, moral, economic, racial, gendered, and political registers as the American Calling. Precisely by refusing to answer the Americ""