Sex Character (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Otto Weininger

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332464785 ISBN 13 : 9781332464784

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A bold, original take on how gender shapes mind, ethics, and society.

This volume presents a systematic look at the differences the author sees between the sexes. It introduces a unified approach to characterology and argues for a distinctive psychology of woman, built from philosophical reflection as much as observation. The work is presented as a rigorous inquiry into how gender influences values, behavior, and human relation.

• Explore the book’s core idea: a single principle that contrasts man and woman.
• Learn about imagined types and how they are used to analyze behavior, ethics, and art.
• See how the author connects psychology, philosophy, and moral theory to the question of gender.
• Consider debates about femininity, genius, and moral responsibility through a controversial, historically influential lens.

Ideal for readers interested in philosophy of gender, psychology, and the history of ideas, this edition invites careful reading and critical engagement with a provocative, century-old argument.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Sex Character

There are few instances in the history of literature in which a work so mature in its scientific purpose and so original in its philosophic aspect as "Sex and Character" has been produced by a student who was at the time of its completion less than thirty years of age. "Sex and Character" was at once accepted by scientific authorities, who had direct knowledge of its subject matter, as a book that demanded respectful consideration, whether or not its conclusions might be accepted. It may at once be admitted that the book is by no means in harmony with contemporary thought. If the conclusions of Weininger should be accepted, discussions concerning the emancipation of women, the relation of women to culture, and the results of sexuality would be deprived of their foundation. In this treatise, we have presented, with all the penetrating acumen of the trained logician, a characterisation of sexual types, "M" (the ideal man), and "W" (the ideal woman). The psychological phenomena are traced back to a final source and the author undertakes to present what he believes to be a definitive solution altogether alien to the field of inquiry wherein the answer has hitherto been sought.

In the science of characterology, here formulated for the first time, we have a strenuous scientific achievement of the first importance. All former psychologies have been the psychology of the male, written by men, and more or less consciously applicable only to man as distinguished from humanity. "Woman does not betray her secret," said Kant, and this has been true till now. But now she has revealed it - by the voice of a man. The things women say about themselves have been suggested by men; they repeat the discoveries, more or less real, which men have made about them.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332464785
• ISBN 13: 9781332464784
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 386
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