פרופ' אילנה סילבר

 

Book

1995             Religious Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order: A Comparative Sociological Study of

                     Monasticism in Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. Cambridge Cultural Social

                     Studies. New York, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. x + 250 p.

                     Republished in paperback edition by Cambridge University Press, 2005.

 

Books Edited

 

2017             B.Z. Kedar, I.F. Silber and A. Kline-Oron, eds. Dynamics of Continuity, Patterns of Change

                     Between World History and Comparative Historical Sociology--In Memoriam of S.N

                     Eisenstadt. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute.

 

2005             Marcel Mauss: Essai sur le Don, translation from the French by Hila Karas, with introduction

                     by Ilana F. Silber. Tel-Aviv: Resling (Hebrew)

 

1988             S.N. Eisenstadt and I.F. Silber, eds. Cultural Traditions and Worlds of Knowledge: Explorations

                     in the Sociology of Knowledge. Philadelphia: JAI, Studies in Knowledge and Society. 238 pages.

 

Journal Issues Edited.

 

2021             with F. Gauthier and F. Vandenberghe, Opening Gift, MAUSS International no. 1.

 

2022             with F. Gauthier and F. Vandenberghe, The Gift in Movement, MAUSS International no. 2.

 

2023             with F. Gauthier and F. Vandenberghe,  The Unconditional Share, MAUSS International no. 3.

 

2024             with F. Gauthier and F. Vandenberghe, MAUSS International no. 4.

 

Articles:  Chapters in Books

                         

2023                  "Afterword: Gifts, Dangers and their Performative Context," in Alexandra Urakova, Tracey A. Sowerby, Tudor Sala eds. The Dangers of Gifts from Antiquity to the Digital Age. London: Routledge, pp. 210-216.

                          https://www.routledge.com/The-Dangers-of-Gifts-from-Antiquity-to-the-Di…

 

2019                  "The Gift as Deep Play: A "Note" on Performance and Paradox in the Theatrics of Public Giving," in I. Hentschel ed. Die Kunst der Gabe / The Art of Gift-Giving: Theater between Autonomy and Social Practice. (Berlin: Transcript Verlag), pp. 125-145.

 

                          Reprinted in French translation: Le don comme “jeu profond”: Note sur la dramaturgie du don public et ses paradoxes. Revue du MAUSS 52 (2018): 108-131.

 

2018                  "Ponts dialogiques et alliances anti-utilitaristes," ["Dialogical Bridges and Anti-Utilitarian Alliances"] in A. Caillé, P. Chanial, S. Dufoix and F. Vandenberghe eds. Des sciences sociales à la science sociale: Fondements anti-utilitaristes (Paris: Aube), pp. 339-352. Rep. in English version in MAUSS International no. 1, 2021.

 

2016                  "The Cultural Worth of Economies of Worth: French Pragmatic Sociology from a Cultural Sociological Perspective," in D. Inglis and A. Amila (ed.) The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology. (London: Sage), pp. 159-177.

                          http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-handbook-of-cultural-sociology…

 

2014                  “Boltanski and the Gift: Beyond Love, Beyond Suspicion...?” in Simon Susen and Bryan Turner ed. The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Essays in the "Pragmatic Sociology of Critique." (London, New York: Anthem Press), pp. 485-500.

 

2013                  “Neither Mauss nor Veyne? Peter Brown’s Interpretative Path to the Gift.” In Michael Satlow (ed.), The Gift in Antiquity. Studies in the Ancient World: Comparative Histories. London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 202-220.

 

2011                  “L’intérêt de Bourdieu au désintéressement: un cas de double vérité?” in M. de Fornel and A. Ogien (ed.), Bourdieu, théoricien de la pratique. (Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, collection Raisons Pratiques 21), pp. 223-250. Modified French version of “Bourdieu’s Gift to Gift Theory: An Unacknowledged Trajectory,” Sociological Theory 27, 2 (2009): 173-190.

 

2007                  “Registres et répertoires du don: avec mais aussi après Mauss?” in Eliana  Magnani (ed.), Don et sciences sociales. Théories et pratiques croisées. Dijon: Editions de l’Université de Dijon, pp. 124-144.

 

2007                  “Charisma and Institution-Building in an Organizational Field in Formation: The Case of Israeli Philanthropy,” in Hana Herzog and Tal Kokhavi (ed.), Generations, Spaces and Identities: Perspectives on the Construction of Society and Culture in Israel (Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute), pp. 261-282. (Hebrew)

 

2005                  “Introduction: On Marcel Mauss and the Gift’s Charms and Paradoxes. “ (in Hebrew). Introduction to Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le Don, translated from the French by Hila Karas, ed. and with introduction by Ilana F. Silber. Tel-Aviv: Resling.

 

                          Republished in French translation: “ Prologue: Sortilèges et paradoxes du don,” Revue du M.A.U.S.S. 27, 1 (2006):  39-56.

 

2004                  “Pour une approche non-unitaire de la théorie générale,” in Alain Caillé and Stéphane Dufoix (eds.), Une théorie sociologique générale est-elle pensable? (Paris: La Découverte), pp. 85-101.

 

2002                  “Echoes of Sacrifice?: Repertoires of Giving  in the Great Traditions,” in A. Baumgarten (ed.),  Sacrifice in Religious Experience. Numen Book Series: Studies in Religion (Leiden: E.J. Brill and Co.), pp. 291-313.

 

2001                  “The Gift-Relationship in an Era of ‘Loose’ Solidarities,” in Eliezer Ben-Rafael (ed.), Identity, Culture and Globalization. The Annals of the International Sociology Institute. n.s., vol. 8 (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic  Publishers), pp. 384-400.

 

2000                  “Beyond Purity and Danger: Gift-Giving in the Monotheistic Religions,” in Toon Vandevelde (ed.), Gifts and Interests (Louvain: Peeters), pp. 115-132.

 

1998                  “Modern Philanthropy: Reassessing the Viability of a Maussian Perspective,” in Nick Allen and Wendy James, eds. Marcel Mauss Today (Oxford, New York: Berghahn), pp. 134-150.

                          Reprinted in French translation as "La philanthropie moderne à la lumière de Mauss," in French translation in Revue du M.A.U.S.S 15  (2000): 133-149.

                        Second reprint in French translation as "La philanthropie moderne à la lumière de Mauss," in P. Chanial ed., La société vue du don: manuel de sociologie anti-utilitariste appliquée. Paris: Editions de la Découverte, 2008, pp. 364-380

 

1994                  “The ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism: Max Weber and Recent Trends in Comparative Historical Sociology” (In Hebrew) in Religion and Economy, M. Ben-Sasson and N. Gross eds. Jerusalem: Merkaz Shazar, pp. 89-100.

 

1988                  “Soteriology and Knowledge: Some Issues in the Structuration of Symbolic Domains.” In S.N. Eisenstadt and I.F. Silber, eds. Cultural Traditions and Worlds of Knowledge: Explorations in the Sociology of Knowledge. Philadelphia: JAI, Studies in Knowledge and Society, pp. 225-238.

 

Entry in Book

 

2024                  "Mauss," in A. Gautier and al. eds. Les mots qui disent la philanthropie. Paris: Odile Jacob.

 

Articles in Periodicals

 

 

Forthc.             "Natalie Z. Davis and the registers of giving," MAUSS International 4.

 

2024                "Natalie Z. Davis et les registres du don," Revue du MAUSS 63, pp. 190-207.

                        https://www.cairn.info/revue--2024-1-page-190.htm

 

2022                " Gift Research Across Disciplines (2000-2022): A Compilation and Open Invitation," MAUSS International 2022/1 (No 2), pp.  534-560                                                    

                        https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-mauss-international-2022-1-page-534…

                  

2021                "Dialogical Bridges and Anti-Utilitarian Alliances," in MAUSS International 1.

                        English original version of:  "Ponts dialogiques et alliances anti-utilitaristes in A. Caillé, P. Chanial, S. Dufoix and F. Vandenberghe eds. Des sciences sociales à la science sociale: Fondements anti-utilitaristes (Paris: Aube, 2018), pp. 339-352.

 

2021                Chanial P. and Ilana F. Silber, "Reconciling Spirit and Contract? Marshall Sahlins and the Essai sur le don," in M. Cedrini and R. Marchionatti eds. Marshall Sahlins’s Stone Age Economics: A Semicentenary Estimate. A monographic issue of the Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science 55 (1): 87-106. Open access.

 

                                https://www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/browse/reconciling-spirit-a…

2020                “S.N. Eisenstadt’s Theory of Culture,” European Journal of Social Theory 23, 2: 125–145.

 

2018                "Gifts in Rites of Passage, or Gifts as Rites of Passage?: Standing at the Threshold between Van Gennep and Mauss." Journal of Classical Sociology 18, 4: 348-360.

 

2018                "Le don comme 'jeu profond': Note sur la dramaturgie du don public et ses paradoxes." Revue du M.A.U.S.S. 52: 108-131.

 

                          * Reprint in French translation of: "The Gift as Deep Play: A "Note" on Performance and Paradox in the Theatrics of Public Giving," in I. Hentschel ed. Die Kunst der Gabe / The Art of Gift-Giving: Theatre between Autonomy and Social Practice. Berlin: Transcript Verlag, 2018, pp. 125-145.

 

2012                  “The Angry Gift: A Neglected Facet of Philanthropy," Current Sociology 60, 3: 317-334.

                         

                          * Republished in abridged, version as "Civic Anger among Major Donors," in B. Breeze and M. Moody (ed.), The Philanthropy Reader. London: Routledge, 2017.

 

2011                  “Deciphering Transcendence and the Open Code of Modernity: S.N. Eisenstadt’s Comparative Hermeneutics of Civilizations,” Journal of Classical Sociology 3: 269-280.

                         

2011                  “Emotions as Regime of Justification? The Case of Philanthropic Civic Anger,” European Journal of Social Theory 14, 2: 301-320.

 

2010                  “Mauss, Weber et les trajectoires historiques du don,” Revue du MAUSS. 36: 539-561.

 

2009                  “Bourdieu’s Gift to Gift Theory: An Unacknowledged Trajectory,” Sociological Theory 27, 2: 173-190.

                         

                          Republished in modified French version as “L’intérêt de Bourdieu au désintéressement: un cas de double vérité?” in M. de Fornel and A. Ogien ed., Bourdieu, théoricien de la pratique. (Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, collection Raisons Pratiques 21, 2011).

 

2009                  Gelernter, L. and I.F. Silber, “Bourdieu’s Reception in Israeli Sociology: The Fragmented Imprint of a Grand Theory,” Sociologica 1. 28 pp.

 

2008                  “A New Era for Philanthropy? The Case of Israel.” Civil Society and Third Sector in Israel 2, 1: 9-32. (Hebrew)

 

2007                  “Towards a Non-Unitary Approach to Sociological Theory,” European Journal of Social Theory 10, 2:  220-232.

  

                          Also in French: “Pour une approche non-unitaire de la théorie générale,” in Alain Caillé and Stéphane Dufoix (eds.),  Une théorie sociologique générale est-elle pensable? (Paris: La Découverte, 2004), pp. 85-101.

 

2004                  "Entre Mauss et Veyne: pour une sociologie historique comparée du don," in Sociologie et sociétés 36, 2: 189-205.

 

2003                  “Pragmatic Sociology as Cultural Sociology: Beyond Repertoire Theory?” European Journal of Social Theory 6 (4): 425-447

 

2003                  Gidron, Benjamin., Hagai Katz, Hadar Bar-Mor, Yossi Katan,  Ilana F. Silber,  Motti Telias.  Through a New Lense: The Third Sector and Israeli Society,” Israel Studies 6, 1: 20-59.

 

2001                  “Critiquing Critical Sociology:  From Pragmatic to Cultural Sociology,” (In Hebrew) Teoria vebikoret (Theory and Critique) 19:  189-211.

 

2000                  “Marcel Mauss’s Essai sur le Don: A Review Essay,”  (In Hebrew) Soziologia Israelit (Israeli Sociology) 2, 2: 685-694

1995                  “Space, Fields, Boundaries: The Rise of Spatial Metaphors in Contemporary Sociological Theory,” Social Research 62, 2:  323-355.

1995                  “Gift-Giving in the Great Traditions: The Case of Donations to Monasteries in the Medieval West,” European Journal of Sociology 36, 2:  209-243.                               

                          Reprinted in shorter version and in French translation in Revue du M.A.U.S.S.  8 (1996): 243-266.

1993                  “Monasticism and the ‘Protestant Ethic’: Asceticism, Ideology and Wealth in the Medieval West,” British Journal of Sociology 44, 1: 103-123.

 

1985                  “’Opting Out’ in Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism: A Comparative Look at Monasticism as Alternative Structure,” Religion, 15: 251-277

 

1981                  “Dissent through Holiness: The Case of the Radical Renouncer in Theravada Buddhist Countries,” Numen 28, 2: 164-193

                          Reprinted in S.N. Eisenstadt, R. Kahane, D. Shulman, eds., Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and Dissent in India. Berlin: Mouton, 1984, pp. 85-110.

 

Book Reviews in Periodicals:

1999                  Review of Lutz Kaelber 1998, Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities.  University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, in American Journal of Sociology 105 (2):  592-594.

 

1997                  Review of Colin Campbell 1996, The Myth of Social Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) in: Contemporary Sociology 26 (5): 657-659.

 

Other Publications:

2024 Silber, I. F. 2024 "Mauss," in Gautier, A. eds. Les mots qui disent la philanthropie. Paris: Odile Jacob

1999 Silber, I. F. and Z. Rozenheck, The History of the Nonprofit Sector in Israel. (Beer Sheva: The Israel Center for Research on the Third Sector, Ben Gurion University), 53 pages. 

1999 S.N. Eisenstadt, L. Roniger and I.F. Silber (ed.), Collective Identity, Public Sphere and Political Order (Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute), 81 pages.