A William V. Spanos reader : humanist criticism and the secular imperative / edited by Daniel T. O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, and Michelle Martin.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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