American exceptionalism, the jeremiad, and the frontier: From the puritans to the neo-con-men

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Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-66

  Spanos, William V ^a  

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EID: 66149108415     PISSN: 01903659     EISSN: 15272141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01903659-2006-026     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: The Free Press, 1992)
2. and Richard Haass, The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War (Washington, D.C.: Institute of Foreign Affairs, 1997). Haass qualifies Fukuyama's triumphalist end-of-history thesis, but this qualification is not a rejection. It constitutes, in fact, an effort to accommodate the post-Gulf War violence to America's historically ordained errand in the world's wilderness
3. Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, ed. Neal Salisbury (Boston: Bedford Books, 1997), 65-66
4. James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, ed. James D. Wallace (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 456
5. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 1, ed. Phillips Bradley (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 85-97
6. Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (New York: Dover Publications, 1996), preface (unpaginated)
7. Turner, The Frontier in American History, preface
8. and Negri, Insurgencies: Constituent Powers and the Modern State, trans. Maurizia Buscagli (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 141-55
9. John Hellman, American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 36
10. Samuel Huntington, Michel Crozier, and Joji Watanuki, The Crisis of Democracy (New York: New York University Press, 1975)
11. Jacques Derrida's critical identification of Fukuyama's apocalyptic history with the Christian evangelical rhetoric in Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International, trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York: Routledge, 1994), 56ff
12. Ernest Renan, "What Is a Nation?" trans. Martin Thom, in Nation and Narration, ed. Homi Bhabha (London: Routledge, 1999), 110
13. For an especially forceful critique of the foundations of nationalism, one quite relevant to this context, William Connolly, Why I Am Not a Secularist (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 81
14. Renan, "What Is a Nation?" 112
15. Edward W. Said, "The Clash of Definitions," in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), 571