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Durkheim and the Jews of France /

Strenski, Ivan.

Durkheim and the Jews of France / Ivan Strenski. - Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, �1997. - 1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrations. - Chicago studies in the history of Judaism . - Chicago studies in the history of Judaism. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

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Durkheim, �Emile, 1858-1917.
Durkheim, �Emile, 1858-1917


1800-1999


Jews--Intellectual life.--France
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations.
Intellectual life.
Jews--Intellectual life.


France--Intellectual life--19th century.
France--Intellectual life--20th century.
France--Ethnic relations.
France.


Electronic book.
Electronic books.

DS135.F83 / S84 1997eb

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