Durkheim and the Jews of FranceUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.04.2008 - 226 Seiten 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. |
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Seite 91 - ... following characteristics emerge: 1. The science of Judaism comprehends Judaism in its fullest scope. 2. It unfolds Judaism in accordance with its essence and describes it systematically, always relating individual features back to the fundamental principle of the whole. 3. It treats the object of study in and for itself, for its own sake, and not for any special purpose or definite intention. It begins without any preconceived opinion and is not concerned with the final result. Its aim is neither...
Seite 23 - The problem must be put this way: to discover through science the moral restraint which can regulate economic life, and by its regulation control selfishness and thus gratify needs.
Seite 57 - The anarchist, the aesthete, the mystic, the socialist revolutionary, even if they do not despair of the future, have in common with the pessimist a single sentiment of hatred and disgust for the existing order, a single craving to destroy or to escape from reality.
Seite 11 - to point out conventions and regularities that indicate what could and could not be spoken in the language, and in what ways the language qua paradigm encouraged, obliged, or forbade its users to speak and...
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