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End of Education
University of Minnesota Press 1992; US$ 25.50In this groundbreaking work, William V. Spanos offers a powerful contribution to the impassioned debates about the crisis of the humanities. Drawing from various discourses of contemporary theory (primarily from Heidegger and Foucault), The End of Education constitutes a deconstruction of the discourse and practice of the modern humanist university.... more...
America's Shadow
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 57.38A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post–Cold War world and focuses on the Vietnam War, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. more...
In the Neighborhood of Zero
University of Nebraska Press 2010; US$ 25.46Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary as the Battle of the Bulge, he was separated from his antitank gun crew and taken prisoner in the Ardennes forest. Along with a procession of other prisoners... more...
Shock and Awe
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 33.99American exceptionalism, global power, and Mark Twain more...
On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum
Springer International Publishing 2017; US$ 57.68This 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... more...
Heidegger and Criticism
University of Minnesota Press 1993; US$ 76.50Donald E Pease has contributed to Heidegger and Criticism as a designer.Born in Trinidad in 1901, C. L. R. James moved to England in 1932 where he was a leading Marxist theorist, a founder of the Pan-African movement, cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, and author of numerous books, including the influential history of the Haitian slave... more...
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