Durkheim and the Jews of France /
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 Dur...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
University of Chicago Press,
©1997.
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| Series: | Chicago studies in the history of Judaism.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=35124 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226777359 9780226777351 9780226777238 0226777235 9780226777245 0226777243 |