Jansen Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism

French Modernist Legacies
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-90-485-2213-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
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This remarkable study develops a theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation, arguing that the perspective of assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular and supposedly neutral public sphere may be self-subverting. To flesh out this insight, Jansen draws on the paradoxes of assimilation as experienced by the French Jews in the late 19th century through a contextualised reading of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. She proposes a dynamic, critical multiculturalism as an alternative to discourses focusing on secularism, assimilation and integration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jansen, Yolande

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter one. The crisis of multiculturalism, new assimilationism and secularism Chapter two. Assimilation in the French sociology of incorporation from a multicultural perspective Introduction: Why reintroduce assimilation? 1. Gérard Noiriel. Writing the history of power in the context of migration 2. A multicultural perspective: I been in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time Chapter three. The new liberal sociology of assimilation and its transnationalist alternatives Introduction: The international sociological debate about assimilation and its normative implications 1. Critique of postnationalism, multiculturalism and integration 2. The alternatives proposed by the ‘liberal assimilationists’ 3. Complications for a diagnosis: ‘On their turf’ 4. Alternatives 5. Against the new discourses of assimilation Transit I: To the Proustian pluriverse or Proust as a witness of assimilation in nineteenth19th-century France Europe; initial connections with the secularism-religion framework Chapter four. Alfred Bloch’s personal integration test at the threshold of the protagonist’s family’s home 1. ‘And what’s the name of this friend of yours who is coming this evening?’ 2. The Revolution’s conditions of Emancipation 3. Bloch coping with paradox Chapter five. Stuck in a revolving door. Cultural memory, assimilation and secularisation Introduction: Assimilation, cultural memory and metaphor 1. Bloch and his family being ‘picturesque rather than pleasing’ at the beach 2. Hannah Arendt reads Proust; from Judaism to Jewishness 3. Scratching the surface; Zygmunt Bauman and the paradoxes of assimilation 4. ‘A consubstantial malaise of republican society’ Transit II: Laïcité and assimilation in the Third Republic and today Chapter six. Elements for a critique of the laïcité¬-religion framework Introduction: Towards a genealogy of the laïcité¬-religion framework 1. Laïcité and neo-Kantian liberalism 2. Kant at school; Durkheim and Buisson 3. The genealogy of the religious ‘sign’ with a French twist towards ordre public Chapter seven. Secularism, sociology, security

Introduction: The sociology of secularisation and the normative concept of laïcité 1. The Stasir Report: Un rapport sans médiation 2. Secularism or democratic multiculturalism? Chapter eight. The highly precarious structure of assimilation: modernist philosophical schemes, memory and the Proustian narrative

Introduction: The invention of tense pasts ‘after’ assimilation
1. Adorno and Benjamin on assimilation and the rejection of Swann 2. Public and private Dreyfusism 3. The social discipline of forgetting Democratic memory 1. The assimilation of the French Jews as a memory for today 2. Getting stuck in a revolving door in the early twenty-first21st century 3. Problematising the laïcité-religion framework instead of defining a better laicité 4. Multicultural alternatives

Über Autor(innen)

Jansen, Yolande
Yolande Jansen is Socrates professor of humanism in relation to religion and secularity at the VU University Amsterdam and a senior researcher at the Amsterdam Center for Globalisation Studies, University of Amsterdam.

Yolande Jansen is the Socrates Professor of Humanism in Relation to Religion and Secularity at the VU University Amsterdam and a senior researcher at the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies at the University of Amsterdam.