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Otto Weininger

Name: Otto Weininger
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226748672
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Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna

Autor: Chandak Sengoopta

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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Turn-of-the-century Vienna is remembered as an aesthetic, erotic and intellectual world: the birthpl...

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Autor

Chandak Sengoopta

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2000

Pagini

256

EAN

9780226748672

ISBN

0226748677

Enbook ID

04549242

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

494

Dimensiuni

167 x 236 x 20

Descriere completă

Turn-of-the-century Vienna is remembered as an aesthetic, erotic and intellectual world: the birthplace of Freud and psychoanalysis, the waltz, and the novels of Schnitzler. The contexts of this cultural vibrancy, Chandak Sengoopta argues, were darker and more complex than we might imagine. This provocative, enlightening study explores the milieu in which the philosopher Otto Weininger (1880-1903) wrote his controversial book "Sex and Character". Shortly after its publication, Weininger committed suicide at the age of 23. His book, which argued that women and Jews were mere sexual beings who lacked individuality, became a bestseller. Hailed as a genius by intellectuals such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Kraus, Weininger was admired, not for his prejudices, but for his engagement with the central issues of the time - the nature and meanings of identity. Sengoopta pays particular attention to how Weininger appropriated scientific language and data to defend his views and examines the scientific theories themselves.