{"product_id":"sibling-action-stefani-engelstein-9780231180412","title":"Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eSibling Action \u003c\/i\u003epresents a compelling new understanding of systems of knowledge and provides the foundation for less confrontational formulations of belonging, identity, and agency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stefani Engelstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231180411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231180412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.10d","brand":"Stefani Engelstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072434893055,"sku":"9780231180412","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f6c7bd96-e1a6-4969-a365-8276c1400478.jpg?v=1685441947","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sibling-action-stefani-engelstein-9780231180412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}