Amos Morris-Reich

The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the connection between the nineteenth century transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences and notions of Jewish assimilation and integration, demonstrating that the quest for Jewish assimilation is linked to and built into the conceptual foundations of modern social science disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780415540735
• ISBN-10: 0415540739
• Artikelnr.: 54573095

Autorenporträt

Amos Morris-Reich has been a research fellow at the Simon Dubnow Center, the University of Chicago, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He is currently the Polonsky Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Language
Culture
and the Representation of the Jews 2. Assimilation as Extinction: Race
Mixture
and Difference 3. From Assimilation to Difference 4. Objects
Definitions
and Assimilation 5. The Aesthetics of Jewish Assimilation: Form and Individuality 6. The "Jew": Object of Research and "Quilting Point". Conclusion