| Author: | Otto Weininger | ISBN: | 9781310549472 |
| Publisher: | Libros Selectos | Publication: | July 3, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Otto Weininger |
| ISBN: | 9781310549472 |
| Publisher: | Libros Selectos |
| Publication: | July 3, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
This work 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 work 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.
