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Weininger Otto <1880-1903.> |
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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 |
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Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-07154-8 |
9786612071546 |
0-253-11130-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (493 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LöbLadislaus |
SteuerDaniel |
MarcusLaura |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sex |
Sexual ethics |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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