Sex and character : an investigation of fundamental principles / Otto Weininger ; translated from German by Ladislaus Lob ; edited by Daniel Steuer and Laura Marcus ; with an introduction by Daniel Steuer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weininger, Otto, 1880-1903.

Contributor:

Löb, Ladislaus.

Steuer, Daniel.

Marcus, Laura.

Standardized Title:

Geschlecht und Charakter. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Sexual ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07154-8

9786612071546

0-253-11130-7

OCLC:

475974500