UID:
almafu_9959235042202883
Format:
1 online resource (493 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-07154-8
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9786612071546
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0-253-11130-7
Uniform Title:
Geschlecht und Charakter.
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-34471-9
Language:
English
