Durkheim and the Jews of France

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 ...