TY - GEN T1 - Durkheim and the Jews of France T2 - Chicago studies in the history of Judaism. A1 - Strenski, Ivan LA - English PP - Chicago, Ill. PB - University of Chicago Press YR - 1997 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm45729482 AB - 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. OP - 215 CN - DS135.F83 S84 1997eb SN - 0226777359 SN - 9780226777351 SN - 9780226777238 SN - 0226777235 SN - 9780226777245 SN - 0226777243 KW - Durkheim, Émile, : 1858-1917. KW - Durkheim, Émile, : 1858-1917 KW - Jews : France : Intellectual life. KW - France : Intellectual life : 19th century. KW - France : Intellectual life : 20th century. KW - France : Ethnic relations. KW - Juifs : France : Vie intellectuelle. KW - France : Vie intellectuelle : 19e siècle. KW - France : Vie intellectuelle : 20e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies. KW - Ethnic relations KW - Intellectual life KW - Jews : Intellectual life KW - France KW - 1800-1999 ER -