The deeply politico-theological questions of shame as an act, guilt as an affect, and redemption as an aspiration remain, to my mind, under-examined in genealogies of modern political ideas, especially regarding the narration and critique of imperial history.
Timothy Vasko’s Making All the World America documents how theological hermeneutics and post-theological thought that emerged in late Renaissance and early Enlightenment discovery discourses were renegotiated through native information