Weininger, Otto, 1880-1903

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschlecht_und_Charakter Release date is 2016-02-14

E-text prepared by Peter Becker, Jana Srna, Norbert H. Langkau, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Austrian Literature Online (http://www.literature.at) E-text prepared by Peter Becker, Jana Srna, Norbert H. Langkau, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Austrian Literature Online (http://www.literature.at)

"Geschlecht und Charakter: Eine prinzipielle Untersuchung" by Otto Weininger is a philosophical work published in 1903. The twenty-three-year-old Austrian philosopher presents a controversial theory examining the relationship between the sexes. Weininger proposes that all humans contain both masculine and feminine elements in varying proportions, creating a spectrum between ideal types. His work develops a dualistic philosophy centered on gender differences, arguing for the superiority of masculine principles while associating femininity with absence and negation. The book became a classic document of Viennese modernism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



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