Redeemer 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
War-era belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it
operationalizes an apparatus of biopolitical capture that saturates
the American body politic down to its capillaries. 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 American Calling, by rendering inoperative (in Agamben's sense)
its covenantal summons, Spanos enables us to imagine an alternative
America. At once timely and personal, Spanos's meditation
acknowledges the priority of being. He emphasizes the dignity not
simply of humanity but of all phenomena on the continuum of being,
"the groundless ground of any political formation that would claim
the name of democracy."
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