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Sibling Action - The Genealogical Structure of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Sibling Action - The Genealogical Structure of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans embarked on a
new way of classifying the world, devising genealogies that
determined degrees of relatedness by tracing heritage through
common ancestry. This methodology organized historical systems into
family trees, transforming the closest contemporaneous terms on
trees of languages, religions, races, nations, species, or
individuals into siblings. Encompassing political fraternity,
sister languages, racial discourse on brotherhood, evolutionary
sibling species, and intense, often incestuously inclined
brother-sister bonds in literature, siblinghood stands out as a
ubiquitous-yet unacknowledged-conceptual touchstone across the
European long nineteenth century. In all such systems the sibling
term, not-quite-same and not-quite-other, serves as an active fault
line, necessary for and yet continuously destabilizing definition
and classification. In her provocative book, Stefani Engelstein
explores the pervasive significance of sibling structures and their
essential role in the modern organization of knowledge and
identity. Sibling Action argues that this relational paradigm came
to structure the modern subject, life sciences, human sciences, and
collective identities such as race, religion, and gender.
Engelstein considers theoretical constructions of subjectivity
through Sophocles' Antigone; fraternal equality and its exclusion
of sisters in political rhetoric; the intertwining of economic and
kinship theory by Friedrich Engels and Claude Levi-Strauss; Darwin
and his contemporaries' accounts of speciation; anthropological and
philological depictions of Muslims and Jews at the margins of
Europe; and evolutionary psychology's theorizing around the incest
taboo. Integrating close readings across the disciplines with
panoramic intellectual history and arresting literary
interpretations, Sibling Action presents a compelling new
understanding of systems of knowledge and provides the foundation
for less confrontational formulations of belonging, identity, and
agency.
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