Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism : French Modernist Legacies.

Intro -- 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.

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