American Exceptionalism and the Calling
American Exceptionalism and the Calling
A Genealogy of the Vocational Ethic
This chapter constitutes a genealogy of the American nation-state and its vocation. It traces the origins of the American capitalist nation-state to the Puritan notion of “the calling”: the call from a Higher Cause that, in giving an identity to the called, renders him/her Its obedient servant, or, in Louis Althusser's language, an interpellated—subjected—subject.
Keywords: calling, exceptionalism, interpellation, Puritan work ethic, vocation
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