Jewish Identity and Civilizing Processes
Published on 4. November 1996
X, 181 pages
978-0-230-37445-4 (ISBN)
Description
Jewish Identity and Civilizing Processes examines the history of Jewish experience in Western Europe, from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, using the sociological theory and method of Norbert Elias. Attention is focused on the notion of interdependence and the intertwining processes of the civilization of behaviour and character and the formation of modern states as these specifically affected Jewry and help to shed light on the problem of anti-Semitism.
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Jewish Identity and Civilizing Processes
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11/1996
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Content
- Cover
- Jewish Identity and Civilizing Processes
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The 'Underground History' of Europe: Elias's Central Thesis
- 2 Another 'Underground History': Elias and European Jewry Prior to Emancipation
- 3 Removing the 'Civic Barrier': Political and Legal Aspects of Jewish Emancipation
- 4 'Bending to the Constraints of Interdependence': Personal Dimensions of Jewish Emancipation
- 5 Elias and the German Cultural Crisis I: The Crisis
- 6 Elias and the German Cultural Crisis II: A Process-sociological Perspective
- 7 Norbert Elias and the German-Jewish Synthesis
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
