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Sibling Action - The Genealogical Structure of Modernity (Paperback)
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Sibling Action - The Genealogical Structure of Modernity (Paperback)
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The sibling stands out as a ubiquitous-yet
unacknowledged-conceptual touchstone across the European long
nineteenth century. 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 in a wide array of new
disciplines, transforming into siblings the closest contemporaneous
terms on trees of languages, religions, races, nations, species, or
individuals. In literature, a sudden proliferation of
siblings-often incestuously inclined-negotiated this confluence of
knowledge and identity. In all genealogical 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
argues that this pervasive relational paradigm shaped the modern
subject, life sciences, human sciences, and collective identities
such as race, religion, and gender. The insecurity inherent to the
sibling structure renders the systems it underwrites fluid. It
therefore offers dynamic potential, but also provokes
counterreactions such as isolationist theories of subjectivity, the
political exclusion of sisters from fraternal equality, the tyranny
of intertwined economic and kinship theories, conflicts over
natural kinds and evolutionary speciation, and invidious
anthropological and philological classifications of Islam and
Judaism. 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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