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Kathleen
Biddick.
The Typological Imaginary: Circumcision, Technology,
History.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Sept 2003.
160pp.
Hardback
ISBN 0812237404.
Publisher's
recommended price $34.95s/£24.50
In
this
book Kathleen
Biddick investigates the fate of the enduring timelines fabricated by
early
Christians to distinguish themselves from their Jewish neighbors.
Ranging
widely across the history of text, technology, and book art, she
relates
three interwoven stories: the Christians' translation of circumcision
into
a graphic problem of writing on the heart; the temporal construction of
Christian notions of history based on the binary supersession of an Old
Testament past by the present of a new dispensation; and the traumatic
repetition of the graphic cutting off of Christians from Jews in
academic
history and anthropology.
Moving
beyond
well-studied theological polemics, Biddick works from the relatively
unfamiliar
vantage point of the graphic technologies used in medieval and early
modern
texts and print sources, from maps to trial transcripts to universal
histories.
Addressing current concerns about the posthuman condition by linking
them
to a deeper genealogy of disembodiment at the technological heart of
imaginary
fantasies, she argues that such supersessionary practices extend to
contemporary
psychoanalytic and postcolonial texts, even as they propose alternative
ways of thinking about memory and temporality. Crucial to Biddick's
study
is the ethical challenge of unbinding the typological imaginary, not in
order to disavow theological difference but rather to open up the
encounter
between Christian and Jew to less deadening teleological readings.
Making
a significant
contribution to the large debate over the transition from "scriptural"
to "scientific" culture in Europe, The Typological Imaginary
also
succeeds in shedding light on the centrality of Jews to medieval and
Enlightenment
history.
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