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William V. Spanos is a Heideggerian literary critic. Spanos is a Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York; he is a founder and editor of the critical journal boundary 2. His work draws heavily on the philosophical legacy of Martin Heidegger, and while it does show the influence of the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, Spanos's vocabulary and concepts remain closer to Heidegger's Destruktion ("destruction") of metaphysics than to its philosophical successors.

He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1964.

Spanos takes a post-modern approach to the West, globalization, colonization, and general interventionist foreign policy. He talks about a problem/solution mindset that America was in during Vietnam War, and how all foreign policy now is still stuck in this framework. Spanos' work derives from philosophers ranging from Heidegger and Nietzsche to Foucault.

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Total Books: 19
American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization The Spector of Vietnam
American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization The Spector of Vietnam
America's Shadow An Anatomy of Empire
America's Shadow an Anatomy of Empire (Other)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780816633371
ISBN-10: 0816633371
Genres: History, Nonfiction
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America's Shadow An Anatomy of Empire
America's Shadow an Anatomy of Empire (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780816633388
ISBN-10: 081663338X
Genres: History, Nonfiction
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A Casebook on Existentialism
A Casebook on Existentialism (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780690174250
ISBN-10: 069017425X
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The End of Education Toward Posthumanism
The End of Education Toward Posthumanism [Pedagogy and Cultural Practice, Vol 1] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780816619559
ISBN-10: 0816619557
Genre: Nonfiction
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The Errant Art of MobyDick The Canon the Cold War and the Struggle for American Studies
The Errant Art of MobyDick The Canon the Cold War and the Struggle for American Studies
Heidegger and Criticism Retrieving the Cultural Politics of Destruction
Heidegger and Criticism Retrieving the Cultural Politics of Destruction
Herman Melville and the American Calling The Fiction After MobyDick 18511857
Herman Melville and the American Calling The Fiction After MobyDick 18511857
In the Neighborhood of Zero A World War II Memoir
In the Neighborhood of Zero a World War II Memoir (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780803226814
ISBN-10: 0803226810
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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The Legacy of Edward W Said
The Legacy of Edward W Said (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780252033889
ISBN-10: 0252033884
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The Legacy of Edward W Said
The Legacy of Edward W Said (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780252075728
ISBN-10: 0252075722
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
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On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West
On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum Essays in Loving Strife From Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West [Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783319478708
ISBN-10: 3319478702
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation