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Sex and Character

An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
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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 sexual liberation, and the debates about homosexuality. Combining rational reasoning with irrational outbursts, in the context of today's scholarship, Sex and Character speaks to issues of gender, race, cultural identity, the roots of Nazism, and the intellectual history of modernism and modern European culture. This new translation presents, for the first time, the entire text, including Weininger's extensive appendix with amplifications of the text and bibliographical references, in a reliable English translation, together with a substantial introduction that places the book in its cultural and historical context.
Ladislaus Loeb is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex. Daniel Steuer is Senior Lecturer in German in the School of Humanities, University of Sussex. Laura Marcus is Reader in English in the School of Humanities, University of Sussex.
Contents Acknowledgments A Book That Won't Go Away: Otto Weininger's Sex and Character Daniel Steuer Translator's Note Ladislaus Loeb Preface First (Preparatory) Part: Sexual Diversity Introduction I. "Men" and "Women" II. Arrhenoplasm and Thelyplasm III. Laws of Sexual Attraction IV. Homosexuality and Pederasty V. Characterology and Morphology VI. Emancipated Women Second or Main Part: The Sexual Types I. Man and Woman II. Male and Female Sexuality III. Male and Female Consciousness IV. Endowment and Genius V. Endowment and Memory VI. Memory, Logic, Ethics VII. Logic, Ethics, and the Self VIII. The Problem of the Self and Genius IX. Male and Female Psychology X. Motherhood and Prostitution XI. Eroticism and Aesthetics XII. The Nature of Woman and Her Purpose in the Universe XIII. Judaism XIV. Woman and Humanity Appendix: Additions and References Index
"Whatever might draw us to Weininger--his insight or passion, or our interest in fin-de-siecle science and Viennese "crises of identity"--Lob's translation will serve us well."--Times Literary Supplement, 24 February 2006
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