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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457183203321

Titolo

Wittgenstein reads Weininger / / edited by David G. Stern, Béla Szabados [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14666-6

1-280-51583-X

0-511-21421-9

0-511-21600-9

0-511-21063-9

0-511-31498-1

0-511-61691-0

0-511-21240-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

193

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Reading Wittgenstein (on) reading: an introduction / David G. Stern and Béla Szabados -- Eggshells or nourishing yolk? a portrait of Wittgenstein as a Weiningerian / Béla Szabados -- Weininger and the two Wittgensteins / Allan Janik -- Sex and solipsism: Weininger's On last things / Steven Burns -- Wittgenstein and Weininger: time, life, world / Joachim Schulte -- Uncanny differences: Wittgenstein and Weininger as doppelgänger / Daniel Steuer -- Weininger and Wittgenstein on 'animal psychology' / David G. Stern.

Sommario/riassunto

Otto Weininger was one of the most controversial and widely read authors of fin-de-siècle Vienna.  He was both condemned for his misogyny, self-hatred, anti-semitism and homophobia, as well as praised for his uncompromising and outspoken approach to gender and morality.  For Wittgenstein Weininger was a 'remarkable genius'. He repeatedly recommended Weininger's Sex and Character to friends and students and included the author on a short list of figures who had influenced him. The purpose of this new collection of essays is to



explore the various ways in which Wittgenstein absorbed and responded to Weininger's ideas. Written by an international team of experts on Wittgenstein and Weininger, the volume is especially timely in the light of recent translations of Weininger's work and will appeal to anyone interested in the history of 20th century philosophy, and the literary and cultural history of fin-de-siècle Vienna.