{"product_id":"the-typological-imaginary-circumcision-technology-history-hardback-9780812237405","title":"The Typological Imaginary; Circumcision, Technology, History (Hardback) 9780812237405","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Typological Imaginary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCircumcision, Technology, History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKathleen Biddick (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812237405\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages, 16 illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e Making a significant contribution to the large debate over the transition from \"scriptural\" to \"scientific\" culture in Europe, The \u003ci\u003eTypological Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e also succeeds in shedding light on the centrality of Jews to medieval and Enlightenment history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Typology Never Lets Go\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Christians Mapping Jews: Cartography, Temporality, and the Typological Imaginary\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Printing Excision: The Graphic Afterlife of Medieval Universal Histories\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Graphic Reoccupation, the Faithful Synagogue, Foucault's Genealogy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Lachrymose History, the Typological Imaginary, and the Lacanian Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: Translating the Foreskin\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555707449624,"sku":"9780812237405","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-typological-imaginary-circumcision-technology-history-hardback-9780812237405","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}