... his black readers shrink and criticize; and yet they are done with a certain splendid, careless truth. (Du Bois [1924] 1996 : 1208–9) [email protected] Copyright ©2023 by Duke University Press 2023 hermeneutical charity biographical facts literary fabrication...

... or an Aesopian fable such as Animal Farm, lead us to imagine a set of meanings located on the other side of this hermeneutic wall. In political and cultural terms, these meanings lying on the other side of the wall com- prise parts of the whole of an ideology—its commentary and interpretation. Because...

... hermeneutic, which presupposes that the Catholic read- ing of the Gospels is the correct one.27 From this perspective, the book questions the traditional historical-critical method of investigation and deliberately belittles the results of decades of patient empirical exegesis...

... Sermons, ed. A. William Plumstead, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968). . John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity,” in The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry, ed. Perry Miller (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1956), 83. . See William V. Spanos, American...

... converge in a single word. Although global has become the operative word in the theorization of the present, the refugee best exemplifies for many what Giorgio Agamben terms bare life, overlooked and underappreciated statelessness as a hermeneutical cipher. While it is unnecessary here to rehearse...

...- sures defining the American public sphere. Moreover, as Nancy Dunlap Ber- caw notes, ‘‘by the 1850s the household had become an extrusion of the state, not only involved in the institutionalization of charity, health, and child...