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Sebastian Junger’s Tribe: On Homecoming & Belonging
Francisco Albanese
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Sebastian Junger
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Simon & Schuster, 2016
Since its first edition in 2016, this book had been on my list of books to read. Eight years later, I finally read it this weekend, coinciding with a conversation with friends about the drama of war and how it brings out both the best and worst in human behavior. In Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, Sebastian Junger once again showcases his prose, marked by clarity and precision—the same qualities evident in War and Fire.
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3 comments
Junger’s ‘tribes’ sound like liberal nostalgia. Without a racial (and territorial) component a ‘tribe’ is just another liberal pseudo-identity. Biology is society.
In fact, Junger is not ‘uno di noi,’ and yes: what he proposes is generally somewhat removed from an ethnic/racial idea of a tribe and could rather be closer to a voluntarist-tribalist vision. A priori, his vision of a tribe may not be ours (as it might resemble a tribe formed from elements stemming from a Gesellschaft), but ours should not exclude the elements of belonging, care, and harmony among members, which are necessary for a Gemeinschaft to be organic.
Junger is of the tribe. I appreciate much of what he has to say; my criticism comes more from his omissions.
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