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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449848803321

Autore

Weininger Otto <1880-1903.>

Titolo

Sex and character [[electronic resource] ] : an investigation of fundamental principles / / Otto Weininger ; translated from German by Ladislaus Löb ; edited by Daniel Steuer and Laura Marcus ; with an introduction by Daniel Steuer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-07154-8

9786612071546

0-253-11130-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (493 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LöbLadislaus

SteuerDaniel

MarcusLaura

Disciplina

306.7

Soggetti

Sex

Sexual ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Men" and "women" -- Arrhenoplasm and thelyplasm -- Laws of sexual attraction -- Homosexuality and pederasty -- Characterology and morphology -- Emancipated women -- Man and woman -- Male and female sexuality -- Male and female consciousness -- Endowment and genius -- Endowment and memory -- Memory, logic, ethics -- Logic, ethics, and the self -- The problem of the self and genius -- Male and female psychology -- Motherhood and prostitution -- Eroticism and aesthetics -- The nature of woman and her purpose in the universe -- Judaism -- Woman and humanity.

Sommario/riassunto

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, in the