Sibling Action : : The Genealogical Structure of Modernity / / Stefani Engelstein.

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 heri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 18 b&w figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION: THE SIBLING AND MODERNITY
  • PART I. RECUPERATING THE SIBLING
  • 1. SIBLING LOGIC
  • PART II. FRATERNITY AND REVOLUTION
  • 2. THE SHADOWS OF FRATERNITY
  • 3. ECONOMIZING DESIRE: THE SIBLING (IN) LAW
  • PART III. GENEALOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 4. LIVING LANGUAGES: COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
  • 5. THE EAST COMES HOME: RACE AND RELIGION
  • EPILOGUE: SPAWNING DISCIPLINES
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index