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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>International scholars examine the legacy of a turn-of-the-century self-hating Austrian Jew<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566392488&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1064_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Jews and Gender</h1>
<H2>Responses to Otto Weininger</H2>
<h3>edited by Nancy A. Harrowitz and Barbara Hyams</h3>
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</P><p>In 1903 Otto Weininger, A Viennese Jew who converted to Protestantism, published <I>Geschiecht und Charakter</I> (<I>Sex and Character</I>), a book in which he set out to prove the moral inferiority and character deficiency of "the woman" and "the Jew." Almost immediately, he was acclaimed as a young genius for bringing these two elements together. Shortly thereafter, at the age of twenty-three, Weininger committed suicide in the room where Beethoven had died. Weininger's sensationalized death immortalized him as an intellectual who expressed the abject misogyny and antisemitism.
<p>This collection of essays, many translated into English for the first time, examines Weininger's influence and reception in Western culture, particularly his impact on important writers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, and James Joyce. One essay considers the ways Weininger's ideas were used to further Nazi ideology, and several offer feminist approaches to interpreting the intersection of antisemitism and misogyny. The concluding essay explores Weininger's surprising role in Israel's ongoing sociopolitical self-definition through the bold production of Joshua Sobol's play, "The Soul of a Jew (Weininger's Last Night)."
<p>This volume 's close examination of Weininger's ideas, and their subsequent appearance in other well-known texts, suggests how the legacies of prejudice affect Western culture today.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Acknowledgments
<p><b>Part I: Introduction</b>
<br>1. A Critical Introduction to the History of Weininger Reception – Barbara Hyams and Nancy A. Harrowitz
<br>2. "The Otto Weininger Case" Revisited – Jacques Le Rider
<br>3. Fragments from Weininger's Education (1895-1902) – Hannelore Rodlauer
<p><b>Part II: In Context</b>
<br>4. How Did Weininger Influence Wittgenstein? – Allan Janik
<br>5. Weininger and Lombroso: A Question of Influence – Nancy A. Harrowitz
<br>6. Otto Weininger as Liberal? – Steven Beller
<br>7. Otto Weininger and Sigmund Freud: Race and Gender in the Shaping of Psychoanalysis – Sander L. Gilman
<br>8. Characterology: Weininger and Austrian Popular Science – Katherine Arens
<br>9. Otto Weininger and the Critique of Jewish Masculinity – John M. Hoberman
<br>10. Weininger and Nazi Ideology – Barbara Hyams
<p><b>Part III: Weininger and Modern Literature</b>
<br>11. A Scientific Image of Woman? The Influence of Otto Weininger's <I>Sex and Character</I> on the German Novel – Gisela Brude-Firnau
<br>12. Weininger in a Poem by Apollinaire – Jeffrey Mehlman
<br>13. Kafka and Weininger – Gerald Stieg
<br>14. Weininger and the Bloom of Jewish Self-Hatred in Joyce's <I>Ulysses</I> – Marilyn Reizbaum
<br>15. James Joyce's Womanly Wandering Jew – Natania Rosenfeld
<br>16. Molly <I>Is</I> Sexuality: The Weiningerian Definition of Woman in Joyce's <I>Ulysses</I> – Elfriede P�der
<br>17. Svevo and Weininger (Lord Morton's Mare) – Alberto Cavaglion
<br>18. Whores, Mothers, and Others: Reception of Otto Weininger's <I>Sex and Character</I> in Elias Canetti's <I>Auto-Da-F�</I> – Kristie A. Foell
<br>19. Memory and History: <I>The Soul of a Jew</I> by Jehoshua Sobol – Freddie Rokem
<p>Notes
<br>Works Cited
<br>Notes on the Contributors
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Nancy A. Harrowitz</b> is author of <I>Antisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao</I> and editor of <I><a href="1020_reg.html" target="_top">Tainted Greatness: Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes</a></I> (Temple).</P>
<P><b>Barbara Hyams</b> is Lecturer with the rank of Assistant Professor of German at Brandeis University.</P>
<P>Contributors: Katherine Arens, Steven Beller, Gisela Brude-Firnau, Alberto Cavaglion, Kristie A. Foell, Sander L. Gilman, John Hoberman, Allan Janik, Jacques Le Rider, Jeffrey Mehlman, Elfriede P�der, Marilyn Reizbaum, Hannelore Rodlauer, Freddie Rokem, Natania Rosenfeld, Gerald Stieg, and the editors.</P>
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<p><A HREF="/tempress/philosophy.html" TARGET="_top">Philosophy and Ethics</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/jewish.html" TARGET="_top">Jewish Studies</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/gender.html" TARGET="_top">Gender Studies</a>
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