ISBN:
9780226777238
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (228 p.)
Series Statement:
CSHJ
Series Statement:
Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism v.1997
Parallel Title:
Print version Durkheim and the Jews of France
DDC:
305.892/4044
Keywords:
Durkheim, Émile ; 1858-1917
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France ; Ethnic relations
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France ; Intellectual life ; 19th century
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France ; Intellectual life ; 20th century
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Jews ; France ; Intellectual life
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Ivan Strenski debunks the common notion that there is anything "essentially" Jewish in Durkheim's work. Seeking the Durkheim inside the real world of Jews in France rather than the imagined Jewishness inside Durkheim himself, Strenski adopts a Durkheimian approach to understanding Durkheim's thought. In so doing he shows for the first time that Durkheim's sociology (especially his sociology of religion) took form in relation to the Jewish intellectual life of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. Strenski begins each chapter by weighing particular claims (some anti-Semitic, some
Description / Table of Contents:
DURKHEIM AND THE JEWS OF FRANCE; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 ESSENTIAL JEWISHNESS OR REAL JEWS?; 2 WHY SOCIETY? FRENCH NATIONALISM AND THE BODY OF JUDAISM; 3 REINACH'S MODERNISM, DURKHEIM'S SYMBOLISM, AND THE BIRTH OF THE SACRIÉ; 4 HOW DURKHEIM READ THE TALMUD; 5 SYLVAIN LÉVI: MAUSS'S "SECOND UNCLE"; 6 WHERE DO WE STAND?; NOTES; INDEX;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
