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Strenski, Ivan.

Durkheim and the Jews of France [electronic resource] / Ivan Strenski. - University of Chicago Press, c1997. - 1 online resource (ix, 215 p.) : ill. - Chicago studies in the history of Judaism . - Chicago studies in the history of Judaism. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-202) and index.

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.

ISBN: 0226777359 (electronic bk.) 9780226777351 (electronic bk.)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--Intellectual life.--France
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Electronic books.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
France--Intellectual life--19th century.
France--Intellectual life--20th century.
France--Ethnic relations.

Subjects--Index Terms: საზოგადოებრივი მეცნიერებები ეთნიკური უმცირესობების კვლევა

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS135.F83 / S84 1997eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.892/4044

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 30(44)