Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental by Otto Weininger

By Otto Weininger

Author note: Ladislaus Löb (Translator), Daniel Steuer (Introduction & Editor)
Publish yr note: First released in 1903
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Otto Weininger's debatable publication Sex and Character, first released in Vienna in 1903, is a first-rate instance of the conflicting discourses important to its time: antisemitism, clinical racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and situation of masculinity, mental introspection as opposed to empiricism, German idealism, the women's stream and the assumption of human emancipation, the search for sexual liberation, and the debates approximately homosexuality.

Combining rational reasoning with irrational outbursts, within the context of today's scholarship, Sex and Character speaks to problems with gender, race, cultural identification, the roots of Nazism, and the highbrow historical past of modernism and sleek ecu tradition.

This new translation provides, for the 1st time, the full textual content, together with Weininger's huge appendix with amplifications of the textual content and bibliographical references, in a competent English translation, including a considerable advent that locations the publication in its cultural and old context.

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It should be noted here that the German original does not allow us to decide with certainty whether Le Rider claims that Weininger condemned women, or his ideal type of Woman. My English version opts for the much more defensible second possibility. 67. ”—It is interesting to see the polar opposition between this perspective and that of Spengler/ Wittgenstein. 68. Stieg (1984), p. ” Le Rider (1985), in his chapter on Weininger’s in®uence, calls Thomas Bernhard one of the endpoints of twentieth-century xliv l A Book That Won’t Go Away literature which relentlessly deepened the theme of “irreversible loneliness” [das Thema der unauf hebbaren Einsamkeit] (p.

Johnston, Janik argues, takes a form of liberalism as a paradigm for what is healthy and opposes it to what he, less than clearly, terms “therapeutic nihilism,” an attitude associated in the ¤rst place with the Vienna medical school, and in particular Carl von Rokitansky. In Johnston’s metaphorically extended use the term comes to signify a defeatist view of social and other ills, which does not even share the medical profession’s trust in nature’s healing powers as the only hope available but is content with lamenting suffering and society’s unethical behavior in the face of it.

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