Journal of European Studies, December 1st, 2000
Otto Weininger. Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna. By Chandak Sengoopta. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 239. [pound]20.50.
Chandak Sengoopta's study of Weininger's controversial Sex and Character (Geschlecht und Charakter, 1903) is a welcome attempt at approaching the text neither as the product of a hidden genius nor as a case of mental and intellectual pathology. Instead, Sengoopta - following the methods of Foucault, Skinner and Pocock - aims to reconstruct Weininger's 'discursive universe' (p. 7), to analyse the text itself, and to contextual...
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