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Discussing the work of Durkheim, the author of this book discounts the theory that there is anything essentially Jewish in his work. He aims to show that Durkheim's sociology, especially his sociology of religion, was formed in relation to 19th and 20th century Jewish intellectual life in France.

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Acknowledgments 1: Essential Jewishness Or Real Jews? 2: Why Society? French Nationalism and the Body of Judaism 3: Reinach's Modernism, Durkheim's Symbolism, and the Birth of the Sacred 4: How Durkheim Read the Talmud 5: Sylvain Levi: Mauss's "Second Uncle" 6: Where Do We Stand? Notes Index

Durkheim the Jews of France Volume 1997 Chicago

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 6/8/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226777238, 978-0226777238
      ISBN10: 0226777235
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      Book Synopsis
      Discussing the work of Durkheim, the author of this book discounts the theory that there is anything essentially Jewish in his work. He aims to show that Durkheim's sociology, especially his sociology of religion, was formed in relation to 19th and 20th century Jewish intellectual life in France.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments 1: Essential Jewishness Or Real Jews? 2: Why Society? French Nationalism and the Body of Judaism 3: Reinach's Modernism, Durkheim's Symbolism, and the Birth of the Sacred 4: How Durkheim Read the Talmud 5: Sylvain Levi: Mauss's "Second Uncle" 6: Where Do We Stand? Notes Index

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