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Author Strenski, Ivan.

Title Durkheim and the Jews of France / Ivan Strenski.

Publication Info. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Chicago studies in the history of Judaism
Chicago studies in the history of Judaism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-202) and index.
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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Subject Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
Durkheim, Emile, 1858-1917.
Jews -- France -- Intellectual life.
Jews.
France.
Intellectual life.
France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject France -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Strenski, Ivan. Durkheim and the Jews of France. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©1997 0226777235 (DLC) 96047904 (OCoLC)35911713
ISBN 0226777359 (electronic book)
9780226777351 (electronic book)
9780226777238 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226777235 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226777245 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0226777243 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0226777235 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226777243 (paperback ; alkaline paper)