By analyzing works from the life sciences and human sciences, this volume shows how genealogy the leading method for organizing mutable historical systems reconfigured the nineteenth-century world. Languages, biological species, religions, and "races" were understood as networks of sibling relationships, which led to a problematic entanglement between affect and modern knowledge.

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Professor Stefani Engelstein , German Studies Department and Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.