Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in                  Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its                  time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis                  of masculinity, psychological introspection versus empiricism, German idealism, the                  women's movement and the idea of human emancipation, the quest for sexual                  liberation, and the debates about homosexuality. Combining rational reasoning with                  irrational outbursts, in the context of today's scholarship, Sex and Character                  speaks to issues of gender, race, cultural identity, the roots of Nazism, and the                  intellectual history of modernism and modern European culture. This new translation                  presents, for the first time, the entire text, including Weininger's extensive                  appendix with amplifications of the text and bibliographical references, in a                  reliable English translation, together with a substantial introduction that places                  the book in its cultural and historical context.

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