Hitler's Favorite Jew
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Hitler's Favorite Jew

The Enigma of Otto Weininger

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eBook - ePub

Hitler's Favorite Jew

The Enigma of Otto Weininger

About this book

Otto Weininger (1880-1903) is the most controversial figure to emerge from fin de siècle Vienna. The son of a Jewish goldsmith, he studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna and spoke six languages by the time he was 21. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1902, he converted to Christianity and, in 1903, he published his book Sex and Character —a groundbreaking and highly provocative study that would come to influence Adolf Hitler, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and James Joyce, among others. As troubled as he was brilliant, Weininger took his own life on October 3, 1903, leaving behind a small number of works, an array of challenging ideas, and many unanswered questions.

In Hitler's Favorite Jew, Professor Allan Janik draws upon a half-century of research to explore the life and legacy of Otto Weininger, and to illuminate his outsized impact on some of the greatest thinkers and the greatest monster of the twentieth century. Janik explains how Weininger came to write his bizarre book featuring outrageous claims about women and Jews, and argues that, contrary to the received wisdom, Weininger's true goal was progressive and humanistic.

With its deep insights into both Weininger the man and Viennese intellectual life at the turn of the century, Hitler's Favorite Jew offers a rich and multifaceted portrait that challenges our ideas about sexuality, the nature of anti-Semitism, and the puzzle of human identity.

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Information

Publisher
Simply Charly
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781943657773
eBook ISBN
9781943657803
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosopher Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table Of Contents
  5. Praise for Hitler's Favorite Jew
  6. Preface
  7. Weininger’s Bibliography
  8. Acknowledgements: 50 Years' Worth!
  9. Introduction: The Enigma: Weininger’s Complex Legacy to Posterity
  10. The Road to Eros und Psyche
  11. The Viennese Origins of Sex and Character
  12. Sex and Character I: Early Sexology and the Theory of Plasms
  13. Sex and Character II: Towards a Psychology of Male and Female
  14. Sex and Character III: The Lot of Men and Women in Weininger’s Moral World: What is and What Can Be
  15. Judaism and Anti-Semitism
  16. Weininger’s End: Suicide
  17. Hitler, Wittgenstein, and Joyce: Three Weiningerians?
  18. Weininger’s Legacy
  19. Endnotes
  20. Bibliography
  21. About the Author
  22. A Word from the Publisher