1st Edition

Ethnicity, Identity, and History Essays in Memory of Werner J. Cahnman

By Joseph B. Maier Copyright 1983
    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    In a wide-ranging analysis of the drama of history, the importance of ethnicity, and Jewish identity, these essays explore areas of political and cultural disciplines fused with elegance in the work of the late eminent sociologist Werner J. Cahnman. The prominence of the American and European historians, philosophers, geographers, sociologists, and anthropologists in this volume represents evidence of the wide effect that Cahnman's work had on scholars in a number of fields in academic work. This volume will make timely and rewarding reading for social scientists and historians, especially those concerned with the religious factor.

    Contributors: Joseph B. Maier, Chaim I. Waxman, Louis Dumont, Karl Bosl, K.M. Bolte, Edmund Leites, Lewis S. Feuer, Lester Singer, Harriet D. Lyons, Andrew P. Lyons, Alvin Boskoff, Nathan Glazer, Irving Louis Horowitz, Herbert A. Strauss, William Spinrad, Calvin Goldscheider, Saul B. Cohen, and Emmanuel Maier.

    1: Werner J. Cahnman: An Introduction to His Life and Work; 2: Interaction Between Cultures: Herder’s Volk and Fichte’s Nation; 3: Structural Problems of Medieval Social History of Europe: Ideal types and the Specific Meaning of the Words in Latin Sources; 4: The Operation of the Performance Principle as a Task in the Shaping of Society; 5: Locke’s Liberal Theory of Parenthood; 6: Vico’s View of Jewish Exceptionalism; 7: The Sociobiological Theory of Jewish Intellectual Achievement: A Sociological Critique; 8: Some Sociohistorical Perspectives on Race Relations; 9: A Race or Not a Race: The Question of Jewish Identity in the Year of the First Universal Races Congress; 10: Urban Development: From Urban Types to Urban Phases; 11: Perspectives on Poverty in Early American Sociology; 12: Pluralism and Ethnicity; 13: Moral Development, Authoritarian Distemper, and the Democratic Persuasion; 14: Social and Communal Acculturation of German-Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the United States *; 15: The Politics of American Jews: An Example of Ethnic Group Analysis; 16: The Demography of Asian and African Jews in Israel; 17: Partitioning and the Search for Core-Boundary Equilibrium: The Case Study of Israel

    Biography

    Joseph B. Maier