Durkheim and the Jews of France [[electronic resource] /] / Ivan Strenski

• Autore: Strenski Ivan
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/4044
• Soggetto topico: Jews - France - Intellectual life
• Soggetto geografico: France Intellectual life 19th century; France Intellectual life 20th century; France Ethnic relations
• Soggetto non controllato: durkheim, france, judaism, philosophy, jewishness, identity, influence, nation, sociology, religion, hinduism, spirituality, ritual, sylvain levi, sacred, talmud, modernism, reinach, nonfiction, theory, community, universalism, ceremony, rite, french, jews, ethnicity, symbolism, mauss, essentialism, nationalism, antisemitism, assimilation, sociality, identification
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-202) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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-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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Durkheim and the Jews of France
• ISBN: 1-281-43063-3; 0-226-77735-9; 9786611430634
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777056603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Chicago studies in the history of Judaism.