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