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A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative ed. by Daniel T. O’Hara, Donald E. Pease, Michelle Martin (review)

A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative ed. by Daniel T.... book notes Daniel T. O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Michelle Martin, eds. A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2015. 728 pp. The arrival of A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative marks a sort of defining moment in what we might call William V. Spanos' "late period." This term is of course borrowed from Edward Said (who himself borrowed it from Adorno), who defines in On Late Style an artist or critic's late style in terms of "a nonharmonious, nonserene tension, and above all, a sort of deliberately unproductive productiveness going against..." (2006, 7). Indeed, the work collected in the Reader tells the story of a scholar whose investments become increasingly urgent, and whose later output refuses to "reflect a...spirit of reconciliation and serenity" (2006, 6). The invocation of Said here is deliberate, for he remains the thinker (second only to Heidegger) to whom Spanos has dedicated the most interpretive energy, the most care, and with whose thought Spanos has produced the most Auseinandersetzung, a Heideggerian term that Spanos translates as "loving strife." It is further deliberate to invoke Said and Heidegger together, for one of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png symploke University of Nebraska Press

A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative ed. by Daniel T. O’Hara, Donald E. Pease, Michelle Martin (review)

symploke , Volume 24 (1) – Jan 8, 2016

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book notes Daniel T. O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Michelle Martin, eds. A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2015. 728 pp. The arrival of A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative marks a sort of defining moment in what we might call William V. Spanos' "late period." This term is of course borrowed from Edward Said (who himself borrowed it from Adorno), who defines in On Late Style an artist or critic's late style in terms of "a nonharmonious, nonserene tension, and above all, a sort of deliberately unproductive productiveness going against..." (2006, 7). Indeed, the work collected in the Reader tells the story of a scholar whose investments become increasingly urgent, and whose later output refuses to "reflect a...spirit of reconciliation and serenity" (2006, 6). The invocation of Said here is deliberate, for he remains the thinker (second only to Heidegger) to whom Spanos has dedicated the most interpretive energy, the most care, and with whose thought Spanos has produced the most Auseinandersetzung, a Heideggerian term that Spanos translates as "loving strife." It is further deliberate to invoke Said and Heidegger together, for one of the

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