Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Theory of Society Talks Back to Its Travesty 1 MARCEL STOETZLER PART 1. The Antisemitic Contexts of Sociology’s Emergence 1. Durkheim’s Sociology and French Antisemitism 45 CHAD ALAN GOLDBERG 2. Sociology’s Case for a Well-Tempered Modernity: Individualism, Capitalism, and the Antisemitic Challenge 66 MARCEL STOETZLER 3. 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 90 IRMELA GORGES 4. Coldly Admiring the Jews: Werner Sombart and Classical German Sociology on Nationalism and Race 110 Y. MICHAL BODEMANN PART 2. Sociology’s Reaction to Antisemitism 5. Rereading Marx on the “Jewish Question”: Marx as a Critic of Antisemitism? 137 ROBERT FINE 6. From Assimilationist Antiracism to Zionist Antiantisemitism : Georg Simmel, Franz Boas, and Arthur Ruppin 160 AMOS MORRIS-REICH 7. The Rise of Sociology, Antisemitism, and the Jewish Question: The American Case 183 RICHARD H. KING 8. Civilization(s), Ethnoracism, Antisemitism, Sociology 206 ROLAND ROBERTSON PART 3. The Reformulation of Sociology in the Face of Fascist Antisemitism 9. Talcott Parsons’s “The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism”: Anti-antisemitism, Ambivalent Liberalism, and the Sociological Imagination 249 JONATHAN JUDAKEN 10. The Irrationality of the Rational: The Frankfurt School and Its Theory of Society in the 1940s 274 EVA-MARIA ZIEGE 11. Gino Germani, Argentine Sociology, and the Study of Antisemitism 296 DANIEL LVOVICH, TRANSLATED BY LARS STUBBE AND MARIA VALERIA GALVAN 12. Antisemitism and the Power of Abstraction: From Political Economy to Critical Theory 314 WERNER BONEFELD 13. Conclusion: The Dialectic of Social Science and Worldview 333 DETLEV CLAUSSEN, TRANSLATED BY MARCEL STOETZLER Contributors 343 Index 345 ...