Durkheim and the Jews of France / Ivan Strenski.

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Strenski, Ivan

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TextSeries: Chicago studies in the history of JudaismPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0226777359
9780226777351
9780226777238
0226777235
9780226777245
0226777243

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DS135.F83 S84 1997eb

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

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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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