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Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis of masculinity, psychological introspection versus empiricism, German idealism, the women's movement and the idea of human emancipation, the quest for sexual liberation, and the debates about homosexuality. Combining rational reasoning with irrational outbursts, Weininger's work reflects a weltanschauung that also motivated Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, while some of his prejudices and generalizations spell out more clearly certain important aspects of the thinking of Sigmund Freud or Karl Kraus.In the context of today's scholarship, Sex and Character speaks to issues of gender, race, cultural identity, the roots of Nazism, and the intellectual history of modernism and modern European culture. This new translation presents, for the first time, the entire text, including Weininger's extensive appendix with amplifications of the text and bibliographical references, in a reliable English translation, together with

Who reads Sex and Character : an Investigation of Fundamental Principles?

Author

Otto Weininger, Ladislaus Lob, Daniel Steuer, Laura Marcus, Otto Weininger

Publisher

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2005.

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253344717

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Psychology, Gender Studies, Self Help

Rating

3.72 / 5 (180 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13