Stefani Engelstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 308379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefani Engelstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefani |
| FAMILY NAME | Engelstein |
| SIGNATURE | ENGELSTEIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3726-9444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Death Writes
Analyzing previously unexplored medical records of Franz Kafka, this article reveals the significance of tubercular lung sounds-internal yet inaudible to the patient-for his penultimate story, "The Burrow." Modern audio recordings of the sounds described for Kafka's lungs are included. The asymmetrical access to sound is transformed in "The Burrow" into a narrative technique for exploring the relationship between the incommensurable positionaliti…
Sketchy! Kafka’s Drawings in Medias Res
This essay traces the ways in which Kafka's drawings position themselves adamantly in the middle of things: temporally both through the foregrounding of their own becoming and through dynamic evocations of motion, as well as interpersonally through networks of performance and observation. The article juxtaposes images with texts such as "Wunsch, Indianer zu werden," "Der Kübelreiter," and sections of letters that describe the process of drawing t…
Sexual division and the new mythology
Sibling Action
Stefani Engelstein’s book documenting how sibling relationships were constitutive of many disciplines that emerged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—including anthropology, econ
Geschwister und Geschwisterlichkeit in der Epistemologie der Moderne
The long nineteenth century turned to genealogy as an organising principle for knowledge across fields as diverse as evolutionary theory, linguistics, race theory and comparative religion. In a genealogical system, the sibling – neither quite the same, nor quite other – is a boundary figure that enables, but also undermines, the delineation of neighbouring terms, whether within systems of species, languages, races, religions or subjects. However,…
Love or Knowledge
Around 1800 the hopes for grounding a knowledge of nature confronted the dilemma of human duality. Both Fichte in Die Bestimmung des Menschen and Kleist in “Die Marquise von O...” and Penthesilea unfold empirical worldviews in which a scientific epistemology based on material passivity is allied with rape and violence. They diverge, however, in the alternatives they present. For Fichte, wedding a knowable natural order with spirit, to accommodate…
IIOn Respect and Meaning
The Allure of Wholeness
The Open Wound of Beauty
Out on a Limb
Sibling Action
Stefani Engelstein’s book documenting how sibling relationships were constitutive of many disciplines that emerged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—including anthropology, econ
Sexual division and the new mythology
The Allure of Wholeness
The Open Wound of Beauty
Out on a Limb
The Open Wound of Beauty
The Allure of Wholeness
IIOn Respect and Meaning
Geschwister und Geschwisterlichkeit in der Epistemologie der Moderne
The long nineteenth century turned to genealogy as an organising principle for knowledge across fields as diverse as evolutionary theory, linguistics, race theory and comparative religion. In a genealogical system, the sibling – neither quite the same, nor quite other – is a boundary figure that enables, but also undermines, the delineation of neighbouring terms, whether within systems of species, languages, races, religions or subjects. However,…
Love or Knowledge
Around 1800 the hopes for grounding a knowledge of nature confronted the dilemma of human duality. Both Fichte in Die Bestimmung des Menschen and Kleist in “Die Marquise von O...” and Penthesilea unfold empirical worldviews in which a scientific epistemology based on material passivity is allied with rape and violence. They diverge, however, in the alternatives they present. For Fichte, wedding a knowable natural order with spirit, to accommodate…
Sibling Action
Stefani Engelstein’s book documenting how sibling relationships were constitutive of many disciplines that emerged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—including anthropology, econ
Sexual division and the new mythology
Sketchy! Kafka’s Drawings in Medias Res
This essay traces the ways in which Kafka's drawings position themselves adamantly in the middle of things: temporally both through the foregrounding of their own becoming and through dynamic evocations of motion, as well as interpersonally through networks of performance and observation. The article juxtaposes images with texts such as "Wunsch, Indianer zu werden," "Der Kübelreiter," and sections of letters that describe the process of drawing t…
Death Writes
Analyzing previously unexplored medical records of Franz Kafka, this article reveals the significance of tubercular lung sounds-internal yet inaudible to the patient-for his penultimate story, "The Burrow." Modern audio recordings of the sounds described for Kafka's lungs are included. The asymmetrical access to sound is transformed in "The Burrow" into a narrative technique for exploring the relationship between the incommensurable positionaliti…
Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Franz Kafka Literary Studies (3 works)