03544nam 2200721 a 450 991095375930332120200520144314.09786611430634978128143063212814306339780226777351022677735910.7208/9780226777351(CKB)1000000000414247(EBL)408246(OCoLC)476228182(SSID)ssj0000141836(PQKBManifestationID)11134541(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141836(PQKBWorkID)10090245(PQKB)10263538(MiAaPQ)EBC408246(DE-B1597)523801(OCoLC)781253695(DE-B1597)9780226777351(Au-PeEL)EBL408246(CaPaEBR)ebr10230035(CaONFJC)MIL143063(Perlego)1834245(EXLCZ)99100000000041424719961104d1997 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrDurkheim and the Jews of France /Ivan StrenskiChicago University of Chicago Pressc19971 online resource (228 p.)Chicago studies in the history of JudaismDescription based upon print version of record.9780226777245 0226777243 9780226777238 0226777235 Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-202) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --1. ESSENTIAL JEWISHNESS O R REAL JEWS? --2. WHY SOCIETY? FRENCH NATIONALISM AND THE BODY OF JUDAISM --3. REINACH'S MODERNISM, DURKHEIM'S SYMBOLISM, AND THE BIRTH OF THE SACRÉ --4. HOW DURKHEIM READ THE TALMUD --5. SYLVAIN LÉVI: MAUSS'S "SECOND UNCLE" --6. WHERE D O WE STAND? --NOTES --INDEXIvan 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-Semitic, some not) for the Jewishness of Durkheim's work. In each case Strenski overturns the claim while showing that it can nonetheless open up a fruitful inquiry into the relation of Durkheim to French Jewry. For example, Strenski shows that Durkheim's celebration of ritual had no innately Jewish source but derived crucially from work on Hinduism by the Jewish Indologist Sylvain Lévi, whose influence on Durkheim and his followers has never before been acknowledged.Chicago studies in the history of Judaism.JewsFranceIntellectual lifeFranceIntellectual life19th centuryFranceIntellectual life20th centuryFranceEthnic relationsJewsIntellectual life.305.892/4044Strenski Ivan615497MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953759303321Durkheim and the Jews of France4355393UNINA