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Book SynopsisModern antisemitism and the modern discipline of sociology not only emerged in the same period, but - antagonism and hostility between the two discourses notwithstanding - also overlapped and complemented each other. This book offers a collection of twelve essays providing a comparative analysis of modern antisemitism and the rise of sociology.
Trade Review“Anyone in the social sciences concerned with antisemitism, prejudice, racism, myth, ideology, and theory should be interested in this volume.”—Mark P. Worrell, associate professor at the State University of New York, Cortland, and author of
Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Theory of Society Talks Back to Its TravestyMarcel Stoetzler
Part 1. The Antisemitic Contexts of Sociology’s Emergence
1. Durkheim’s Sociology and French AntisemitismChad Alan Goldberg2. Sociology’s Case for a Well-tempered Modernity: Individualism, Capitalism, and the Antisemitic ChallengeMarcel Stoetzler3. Fairness as an Impetus for Objective, Scientific Social Research Methods: The Reports about Jewish Traders in the 1887 Usury Enquête of the Verein für Socialpolitik Irmela Gorges4. Coldly Admiring the Jews: Werner Sombart and Classical German Sociology on Nationalism and RaceY. Michal Bodemann
Part 2. Sociology’s Reaction to Antisemitism5. Rereading Marx on the “Jewish Question”: Marx as a Critic of Antisemitism?Robert Fine6. From Assimilationist Antiracism to Zionist Anti-antisemitism: Georg Simmel, Franz Boas, and Arthur RuppinAmos Morris-Reich7. The Rise of Sociology, Antisemitism, and the Jewish Question: The American Case Richard H. King8. Civilization(s), Ethnoracism, Antisemitism, SociologyRoland Robertson
Part 3. The Reformulation of Sociology in the Face of Fascist Antisemitism9. Talcott Parsons’s “The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism”: Anti-antisemitism, Ambivalent Liberalism, and the Sociological ImaginationJonathan Judaken10. The Irrationality of the Rational: The Frankfurt School and Its Theory of Society in the 1940sEva-Maria Ziege11. Gino Germani, Argentine Sociology, and the Study of AntisemitismDaniel Lvovich, translated by Lars Stubbe and Maria Valeria Galvan12. Antisemitism and the Power of Abstraction: From Political Economy to Critical Theory Werner Bonefeld13. Conclusion: The Dialectic of Social Science and WorldviewDetlev Claussen, translated by Marcel StoetzlerContributorsIndex
