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OTTO WEININGER: SEX, SCIENCE, AND SELF IN IMPERIAL VIENNA Chandak Sengoopta Book
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- Book Title
- Otto Weininger: Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna (The
- ISBN-10
- 0226748677
- Genre
- PSYCHOLOGY
- ISBN
- 9780226748672
- Subject Area
- Psychology, History, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Otto Weininger : Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- Europe / Austria & Hungary, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), History & Surveys / Modern
- Series
- The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Width
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 16.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Turn-of-the century Vienna is remembered as an aesthetic, erotic, and intellectual world: the birthplace of Freud and psychoanalysis, the waltz, and 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 twenty-three. 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."
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226748677
ISBN-13
9780226748672
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1692173
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Otto Weininger : Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Europe / Austria & Hungary, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), History & Surveys / Modern
Series
The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society Ser.
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology, History, Philosophy
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.7 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
99-088081
Lc Classification Number
B3363.W54s46 2000
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[This] study contributes to our understanding of Weininger by locating him more precisely in the context of late nineteenth-century medicine and biology. Sengoopta clarifies the historical standard-especially scientific, but also moral-against which to read Weininger, and he makes this peculiar writer comprehensible by providing a realistic sense of his scientific frame of reference., "Sengoopta has done something I would have considered impossible: he convinced me, by tracing the roots of Weininger's thought, that it was worthwhile to read his book about a man I had considered unworthy of serious study. . . . I would hazard the conclusion that, despite his rabidness, Weininger articulated some main currents of thought . . . and that his work is relevant today as a jumping off point for explorations of issues that still concern us."-Hannah S. Decker, ISIS, Sengoopta has done something I would have considered impossible: he convinced me, by tracing the roots of Weininger's thought, that it was worthwhile to read his book about a man I had considered unworthy of serious study. . . . I would hazard the conclusion that, despite his rabidness, Weininger articulated some main currents of thought . . . and that his work is relevant today as a jumping off point for explorations of issues that still concern us., "[This] study contributes to our understanding of Weininger by locating him more precisely in the context of late nineteenth-century medicine and biology. Sengoopta clarifies the historical standard-especially scientific, but also moral-against which to read Weininger, and he makes this peculiar writer comprehensible by providing a realistic sense of his scientific frame of reference."-David S. Luft, Central European History, "[Sengoopta] takes Weininger's scientific interests seriously, and in a series of finely crafted readings locates Weininger's concerns within a constellation of fields ranging from experimental psychology to research on sex glands, and the study of homosexuality."-Andreas Killen, German-Studies Review, "Sengoopta, in his highly informative study, convincingly shows that Geschlecht und Charakter is a 'serious, comprehensive, and emotionally charged ideological critique of modernity in general and of women's emancipation in particular.'"-Volker Depkat, H-Net Reviews, Sengoopta presents a learned, modest and sensible account of Weininger's major work. . . . It is a major contribution to the literature on this extraordinary icon of early twentieth-century Vienna., [This] study contributes to our understanding of Weininger by locating him more precisely in the context of late nineteenth-century medicine and biology. Sengoopta clarifies the historical standard--especially scientific, but also moral--against which to read Weininger, and he makes this peculiar writer comprehensible by providing a realistic sense of his scientific frame of reference., [Sengoopta] takes Weininger's scientific interests seriously, and in a series of finely crafted readings locates Weininger's concerns within a constellation of fields ranging from experimental psychology to research on sex glands, and the study of homosexuality., Sengoopta, in his highly informative study, convincingly shows that Geschlecht und Charakter is a 'serious, comprehensive, and emotionally charged ideological critique of modernity in general and of women's emancipation in particular.'
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Read Otto Weininger Today? And How? 1. The Education of Otto Weininger 2. Weininger's Worlds: Identity, Politics, and Philosophy in Central Europe 3. Man, Woman, Text: The Structure and Substance of Geschlecht und Charakter 4. The Biology of Sex and the Deconstruction of Gender 5. Normalizing the Homosexual 6. Deconstructing Femininity: The Psychology of Hysteria 7. Impregnation and Autonomy: The Political Physiology of Motherhood 8. Echoes, Analyses, Critiques: Responses to Weininger Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
193
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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