Stavit Sinai

Sociological Knowledge and Collective Identity (eBook, PDF)

S. N. Eisenstadt and Israeli Society

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationships between sociology and projects of national identity construction, and presents a critique of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, the prominent Israeli sociologist, known as the "father of Israeli sociology".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429786723
• Artikelnr.: 56140031

Autorenporträt

Stavit Sinai is a scholar working in the field of sociology of knowledge, memory studies, and postcolonial critique. She earned her doctoral degree in the Department of History and Sociology at Konstanz University. Her paper, "Self and Otherness in Israeli Sociology" was awarded the Junior Scholar prize by the International Sociological Association (ISA, 2014). Other topics of scholarly interest include, inter alia, classical Greek philosophy. Sinai is also a human rights activist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Eisenstadt, Modern Imaginaries, and the Political Mythology
of Zionism Part I: The 'Problem' of Social Integration 2. Mediated
Identity: Early Eisenstadt, the Zionist Utopia, and the Orientalist Gaze
Part II: Civilization 3. The Short Road from Antiquity to Modernity: The
Jewish Past and Eisenstadt's Civilizational Analysis Part III: Modernities
4. The Jewish Democracy and Multiple Modernities 5. From Zionist to Radical
Sociology