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Max Weber and the Jewish question : a study of the social outlook of his sociology

Title: Max Weber and the Jewish question : a study of the social outlook of his sociology / Gary A. Abraham.
Author: Abraham, Gary A., 1952-
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1992.

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Description

xii, 319 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Gary Abraham shows how Weber's sociology of Judaism and the Jews is rooted in the vexing climate of intellectual concern with the Jewish question, the problem of the social and legal conditions for emancipation of the Jews in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Weber's sociological treatment of Jews and two other minorities--Poles and Catholics in Germany--reveals a strong fundamental bias against a pluralistic society. The author maintains that such antipluralism marks many other areas of Weber's sociology. Abraham's thesis is to show that Weber's views on Judaism and the history of the Jews grow naturally out of his total approach to history and current events, and that both his wider discourse and his particular statements on Judaica reflect an underlying social outlook or image of the ideal society that informs his scholarly work as a whole and that was readily understandable among his contemporaries. This study will encourage a reevaluation of the wide-ranging reception of Weber's work in modern thought and will make an important contribution to a general debate about the foundations of a modern pluralist society and how it is perceived by the intellectual community and the educated public.

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History

Note

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D. -- University of Pittsburgh, 1987).

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- pt. 1. Society and Science. 2. Majority and Minority Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Germany. 3. Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Problem of Minorities. 4. Weber's Idea of Universal History -- pt. 2. Religion and Society. 5. Introduction to Part Two. 6. Religion and "Rationalism" in The Protestant Ethic. 7. Sombart's Sociology of the Jews. 8. Weber's Pariah-People Thesis in His Sociology. 9. Conclusions -- Appendix: The Pariah-People Thesis of Jacob Katz.

ISBN

0252018419
9780252018411

LCCN

91013548

OCLC

ocm23462864
23462864
SCSB-8783960

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Princeton University Library