1st Edition
Sociological Knowledge and Collective Identity S. N. Eisenstadt and Israeli Society
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
Biography
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.
"Stavit Sinai’s powerful book addresses the postcolonial context of the emergence of the state of Israel and its influence on Shmuel Eisenstadt’s sociology. Widely regarded as the foremost theorist of ‘multiple modernities’, Eisenstadt is also the ‘father of Israeli sociology’. This is a compelling and urgent inquiry into the ways in which national social imaginaries have been central for the development of universal concepts."
- Gurminder K. Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex, UK
