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Otto Weininger (German: [ˈvaɪnɪŋɐ]; 3 April 1880 – 4 October 1903) was an Austrian philosopher who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter ( Sex and Character ), which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23.
Otto Weininger (born April 3, 1880, Vienna—died Oct. 4, 1903, Vienna) was an Austrian philosopher whose single work, Geschlecht und Charakter (1903; Sex and Character), served as a sourcebook for anti-Semitic propagandists.
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Oct 10, 2018 · Otto Weininger was a Viennese philosopher who published Sex and Character, a book that combined neo-Kantianism, racism, and bigotry. He influenced many artists and thinkers, but his ideas were also a reaction to feminism and a symptom of fin-de-siècle anxieties.
This provocative, enlightening study explores the milieu in which the philosopher Otto Weininger (1880-1903) wrote his controversial book Sex and Character. Shortly after its publication,...
Otto Weininger was a pioneer of women's psychology and behavior in his 1903 book Sex and Character. He challenged the conventional views of his time and faced the backlash of a feminized society.
One of the forgotten philosophers of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, Otto Weininger’s ideas had a considerable impact on the work of others — most notably on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Otto Weininger ( German: [ˈvaɪnɪŋɐ]; 3 April 1880 – 4 October 1903) was an Austrian philosopher who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter ( Sex and Character ), which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23.
