In the following review of Sex and Character, Thomas admits Weininger's genius and calls the book well worth reading for the unique point of view it brings to the discussion of gender, but also...
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In the following essay, Byrnes examines James Joyce's use of stereotypes related to Jews, particular those found in Weininger's Sex and Character.
In 1923 Joyce drew a pencil sketch o...
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In the following essay, Kavka discusses the ways in which Weininger's virulent misogyny and anti-Semitism appear to have been symptoms of widespread male "hysteria" over the natur...
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In the following essay, Harrowitz examines possible cultural and literary influences on Weininger, particularly Cesare Lombroso.
To better understand Otto Weininger and the influence of his Sex and...
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In the following essay, Hyams explains how the theories in Sex and Character were eventually exploited by the Nazis.
Otto Weininger's popular scientific treatise of 1903, Geschlecht und Char...
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In the following essay, Sengoopta presents an overview of the scientific, philosophical, and cultural background of late-nineteenth-century Vienna into which Weininger was born.
Otto Weininger (188...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in 1935, Lavrin discusses the writings of the Russian thinker Vassily Rozanov and Weininger's Sex and Character, observing the influence o...
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In the following essay, Katz explains Gertude Stein's initial encounters with and eventual assimilation of Weininger's theories and the ways in which they affected her writing and her vi...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1979, Brude-Firnau discusses Weininger's influence on the modern German novel
Otto Weininger's Sex and Character still incites as much ...
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In the following essay, Joly briefly explicates James Joyce's use of Weininger's ideas regarding women and Jews in his characterization of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses.
In his splendid bi...
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In the following essay, Sokól examines misogynist elements in Weininger, Strindberg, and S. I. Witkiewicz.
'Otto Weininger sent me his Geschlecht und Charakter, a terrific book that see...
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In the following essay, Schoenberg discusses the social and psychic implications of the paradoxical images of women in late-nineteenth-century Viennese bourgeois culture and the contrasting viewpoints...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in 1987, Stieg analyzes Franz Kafka's interpretation in The Castle of Weininger's theories.
Nowadays decency would seem to forbi...
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In the following essay, Stach examines Kafka's characterization of women in his fiction and the extent to which it was influenced by Weininger.
With the idea of myth, the Feminine gained ent...
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Critical Essay by W. I. Thomas
