tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post4765674556595185230..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: The Jew of Unbelief / The Jewish NeighborCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-46269164129667381262009-07-01T09:54:47.699-04:002009-07-01T09:54:47.699-04:00Thanks for that, Jonathan: it amkes a great deal o...Thanks for that, Jonathan: it amkes a great deal of sense. You're right, at the heart of my project is a meditation on how temporality AND spatiality get rethought through neighboring. And the more I write that, the more I seem to stick to that gerund rather than a motionless noun like neighbor.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-85230252586016098232009-06-30T23:04:57.348-04:002009-06-30T23:04:57.348-04:00I'm so glad to read these postings as you buil...I'm so glad to read these postings as you build toward the Leeds plenary - the questions you ask here are so compelling. It strikes me that this project is as much about temporality as it is about spatiality - shared urban spaces (literal and literary), but also a more theoretical coinhabitance and a heterogenous, experimental "space of relations," as you posit. Kempe's "Jew-ish" moment during the York interrogation strikes me as a curious textual instance, though: do space and time collapse here? (At this moment in the city of York, Kempe simultaneously occupies role of static, atemporal "Jew of Unbelief" and a living/animated "Jewish neighbor." I don't know if that makes any sense.)Jonathan Hsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214201468052661183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-45672694610779110382009-06-29T05:45:08.406-04:002009-06-29T05:45:08.406-04:00Thanks so much for the vote of confidence, Stephan...Thanks so much for the vote of confidence, Stephanie. Frozen typologies and the possibilities of reading like a (stone-hearted) Jew are in fact what connect this to my bigger medieval prehistory project, which is centered around stone. I don't think this will be a chapter in that book, but who knows.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-31947381762905950912009-06-28T20:36:26.213-04:002009-06-28T20:36:26.213-04:00Very nice. I think this will be cool. It makes me ...Very nice. I think this will be cool. It makes me think about the frozen temporalities in Robertson's appeal to Augustine in <i>On Christian Doctrine</i>, and Augustine's caution against reading like a Jew. Which in turn raises comparable questions about the relation between lived social experience and exegetical tradition in texts like <i>Piers Plowman</i>, etc.This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-21685798552280824852009-06-25T09:34:11.558-04:002009-06-25T09:34:11.558-04:00You know that reminds me of the recent coverage of...You know that reminds me of the recent coverage of the Roma who were forced to flee Belfast because of attacks of their homes. Immigration to belfast has greatly increased since the end of the troubles - and the press represented this as a dichotomy between a society predisposed to racism because of recent historically conditioned sectarianism on the one hand, and the natural kindness of Belfast families and churches to the Roma forced from their homes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-39235693109537144672009-06-25T07:41:21.223-04:002009-06-25T07:41:21.223-04:00Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am trying to ...Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am trying to mediate between what changes (relations take on forms specific to shifting social contexts) and what remains constant (a detemporalizing element that enacts partition; an extemporalizing element that enables amity). We'll see if it really gels or not ...Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-25099129492103144322009-06-25T06:32:48.975-04:002009-06-25T06:32:48.975-04:00I have been trying to think of an intelligent comm...I have been trying to think of an intelligent comment, but am so wrapped up in work etc at the moment that I simply have not been able to concentrate on this. Perhaps some comment is better than none? My own argument is that things change: conditions and relationships in local communities in the later twelfth century were very different a hundred years later. Feel free to ignore if that is useless/obvious or both. This is looking great anyway ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com