Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Theory of Society Talks Back to Its Travesty Marcel Stoetzler 1
Part 1 The Antisemitic Contexts of Sociology's Emergence
1 Durkheim's Sociology and French Antisemitism Chad Alan Goldberg 45
2 Sociology's Case for a Well-Tempered Modernity: Individualism, Capitalism, and the Antisemitic Challenge Marcel Stoetzler 66
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 Irmela Gorges 90
4 Coldly Admiring the Jews: Werner Sombart and Classical German Sociology on Nationalism and Race Y. Michal Bodemann 110
Part 2 Sociology's Reaction to Antisemitism
5 Rereading Marx on the "Jewish Question": Marx as a Critic of Antisemitism? Robert Fine 137
6 From Assimilationist Antiracism to Zionist Anti-antisemitism: Georg Simmel, Franz Boas, and Arthur Ruppin Amos Morris-Reich 160
7 The Rise of Sociology, Antisemitism, and the Jewish Question: The American Case Richard H. King 183
8 Civilization(s), Ethnoracism, Antisemitism, Sociology Roland Robertson 206
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 Jonathan Judaken 249
10 The Irrationality of the Rational: The Frankfurt School and Its Theory of Society in the 1940s Eva-Maria Ziege 249
11 Gino Germam, Argentine Sociology, and the Study of Antisemitism Daniel Lvovich Lars Stubbe Maria Valeria Galvan 296
12 Antisemitism and the Power of Abstraction: From Political Economy to Critical Theory Werner Bonefeld 314
13 Conclusion: The Dialectic of Social Science and Worldview Detlev Claussen Marcel Stoetzler 333
Contributors 343
Index 345