Timothy Snediker
About:
Timothy Snediker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies, specializing in continental philosophy of religion, the history of Christianity, and political theology. He also reads avidly in the areas of critical theory, psychoanalysis, and Black studies.
Snediker is currently working on his doctoral dissertation, “Figural Interpretation and the Logic of Supersession,” which is a study of the origins of the Christian theory and practice of figural interpretation in the works of antique Latin theologians, as well as the afterlife of figural interpretation in modern authors. The dissertation argues that the image of history entailed by figural interpretation is structured by a logic of supersession. Supersession is often understood simply in terms of ‘replacement,’ whereof Christians are understood to have replaced Jews as the privileged community in the story of salvation. The dissertation (1) sheds new light on this notion by showing that supersession, in fact, entails a complex movement of inclusion, configuration, and subordination, and (2) attends to the afterlives of the supersessionist logic in modern philosophical, historical, and political thought, especially in the work of G.W.F. Hegel.
In his spare time, Snediker thinks and writes about police.
