SOURCE: "The 'Alluring Abyss of Nothingness': Misogyny and (Male) Hysteria in Otto Weininger," in New German Critique, Vol. 66, Fall, 1995, pp. 123-45.
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 nature and place of women in fin de siècle European society.
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