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Reactionary Antisemitism: The Jews as Symbols of Revolutionary Modernization Reactionary Antisemitism: The Jews as Symbols of Revolutionary Modernization
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Radical Antisemitism: The Jews as Symbols of the Old Regime Radical Antisemitism: The Jews as Symbols of the Old Regime
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Durkheim’s Engagement with Jewish Concerns Durkheim’s Engagement with Jewish Concerns
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Durkheim’s Sociology in Relation to Reactionary Antisemitism Durkheim’s Sociology in Relation to Reactionary Antisemitism
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Durkheim’s Sociology in Relation to Radical Antisemitism Durkheim’s Sociology in Relation to Radical Antisemitism
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An Excursus on Jews and Other Others An Excursus on Jews and Other Others
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Conclusion Conclusion
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2 The French Tradition: 1789 and the Jews
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Published:May 2017
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the relationship between sociology and antisemitism in France through a case study of French sociology’s central figure: Émile Durkheim. It distinguishes reactionary and radical forms of French antisemitism and shows how Durkheim’s sociology responded to both of them. His writing about Jews directly addressed antisemitic claims about them, their role in French society, and their relationship to modernity. At the same time, Durkheim was engaged in a reinterpretation of the French Revolution and its historical legacies that indirectly challenged other tenets of French antisemitism. While the chapter mainly seeks to understand Durkheim’s ideas about the Jews and Judaism in relation to French antisemitism, it also briefly compares his depictions of Jews to his characterization of four other social groups or categories: Protestants, women, Germany, and Europe’s colonial subjects. The chapter concludes that Durkheim’s responses to French antisemism form a coherent alternative vision of the relationship between modernity and the Jews.
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