| Description |
1 online resource (228 pages) |
| Series |
Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism |
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Chicago studies in the history of Judaism.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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-Sem |
| Analysis |
durkheim, france, judaism, philosophy, jewishness, identity, influence, nation, sociology, religion, hinduism, spirituality, ritual, sylvain levi, sacred, talmud, modernism, reinach, nonfiction, theory, community, universalism, ceremony, rite, french, jews, ethnicity, symbolism, mauss, essentialism, nationalism, antisemitism, assimilation, sociality, identification |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-202) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
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| SUBJECT |
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917 fast |
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Jews -- France -- Intellectual life
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Ethnic relations
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Intellectual life
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Jews -- Intellectual life
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France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051441
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France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442
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France -- Ethnic relations
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96047904 |
| ISBN |
9780226777351 |
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0226777359 |
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1281430633 |
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9781281430632 |
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9786611430634 |
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6611430636 |
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