William V. Spanos

Spanos was born in Newport, New Hampshire, the son of Greek immigrants. A veteran of World War II, he was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and taken a prisoner of war to Dresden, Germany. There, he survived the Allied firebombing of the city. It was a singular experience that he only recounted fifty years later in his autobiographical book In the Neighborhood of Zero. Spanos completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964. ==Selected works ==

Books • A Casebook on Existentialism, Crowell, 1966 • Repetitions: the Postmodern Occasion in Literature and Culture, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987 • The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993 • Heidegger and Criticism: Retrieving the Cultural Politics of Destruction, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993 • The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Cold War, the Canon, and the Struggle for American Literary Studies, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995 • ''America's Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire'', University of Minnesota Press, 1999 • The Legacy of Edward W. Said, University of Illinois Press, 2009 • In the Neighborhood of Zero, University of Nebraska Press, 2010 Papers • 'Heidegger's Parmenides: Greek Modernity and the Classical Legacy', in Modern Greek Studies • 'Heidegger, Nazism, and the Repressive Hypothesis: The American Appropriation of the Question', in boundary 2, vol. 17, 1990 • 'Althusser's 'Problematic' in the Context of the Vietnam War: Towards a Spectral Politics', in Rethinking Marxism, vol. 10, no. 3, 1998 • 'Rethinking the Postmodernity of the Discourse of Postmodernism', in International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice, ed. Hans Bertens and Douwwe Fokkema, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997 ==References==