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Sex & Character / Authorised Translation from the Sixth German Edition — Otto Weininger

Sex & Character / Authorised Translation from the Sixth German Edition

Otto Weininger

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 321 pages

Sex & Character is a collection of essays by Otto Weininger that explores the nature of masculinity and femininity, and the relationship between the sexes. Written in a systematic philosophical style, it examines character and psychology from a perspective that was both influential and controversial in its time. It is worth listening to as a historical document that shaped early twentieth-century debates on gender.

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SEX & CHARACTER

THE GERMAN PRESS

ON “SEX AND CHARACTER.”

Die Umschau.—“Dr. Otto Weininger’s book is destined to place the relation of the sexes in a new light. He traces the contrast between man and woman to a single principle, and makes an attempt to reduce the spiritual differences of the sexes to a system.”

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Contents

  1. SEX & CHARACTER
  2. THE GERMAN PRESS ON “SEX AND CHARACTER.”
  3. PUBLISHER’S NOTE
  4. AUTHOR’S PREFACE
  5. CONTENTS
  6. FIRST OR PREPARATORY PART SEXUAL COMPLEXITY
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. CHAPTER I “MALES” AND “FEMALES”
  9. SECOND OR PRINCIPAL PART THE SEXUAL TYPES
  10. INDEX
  11. Transcriber’s Notes
  12. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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