Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism : French Modernist Legacies.
Title:
Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism : French Modernist Legacies.
Author:
Jansen, Yolande.
ISBN:
9789048522132
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Series:
IMISCOE Research
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: The crisis of multiculturalism, new assimilationism and secularism -- 2. Assimilation in the French sociology of incorporation from a multicultural perspective -- 3. The liberal sociology of assimilation and citizenship and its transnationalist alternatives -- Transit I. Proust as a witness of assimilation in 19th-century France -- 4. Alfred Bloch's personal integration test at the threshold of his friend's home -- 5. Stuck in a revolving door: Cultural memory, assimilation and secularisation -- Transit II. Laïcité and assimilation in the Third Republic and today -- 6. Elements of a critique of the laïcité-religion framework -- 7. Secularism, sociology and security -- 8. The highly precarious structure of assimilation: Modernist philosophical schemes, memory and the Proustian narrative -- 9. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
Abstract:
In this timely study, Yolande Jansen critiques efforts to assimilate religious minorities into a secular and supposedly neutral public sphere. Such efforts, she ably demonstrates, can create and perpetuate the very distinctions they aim to overcome. Her sophisticated analyses draw on literature that depicts the paradoxes of assimilation as experienced by French Jews in the late nineteenth century. Paying particular attention to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, she ultimately argues for dynamic, critical multiculturalism as an alternative to secularism, assimilation, and integration.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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