Gender and Character: A Fundamental Study
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Gender and Character: A Fundamental Study
19.99 €
"Gender and Character" by Otto Weininger (1880-1903) - a famous philosophical and psychological study, the creator of which broke all previously existing gender stereotypes and asked the question of what place in the universe occupy a man and a woman. The Austrian philosopher came to the conclusion that this question concerns first of all every single person. He discovered the bisexuality of the human being as a physiologically given by nature property and, what is even more important, the norm of the psyche: all the features of the male sex, although in a weak, barely developed state, can be found in the female sex; and vice versa, the features of a woman in their totality are contained in a man, although in a very unformed form. One of the basic structures of the psyche - the unity of the masculine and feminine in it - has been singled out. And this was long before Jung's archetypes, before works on gender issues, before the fundamental discoveries of biology at the end of the second millennium.
The importance of this book for the formation of human consciousness in the twentieth century can hardly be overestimated. Weininger's major work became the epitaph of the gallant age, a signal that the two sexes had come together in direct opposition or in search of a new union, harmony on different grounds than before. And it was super relevant: it was not without reason that within the first three decades after its release, the sensational work was published in dozens of copies in most European languages. The proposed book is the text of one of the earliest Russian editions (1903) with maximally restored commentary, revealing the context of the time and giving the opportunity to look at the personality of the author from a fundamentally new angle. Accused of misogyny by both contemporaries and descendants, Weininger only delivered a ruthlessly accurate verdict on his epoch and, like no one else, managed to grasp the ominous Zeitgeist of the just-beginning twentieth century.
The importance of this book for the formation of human consciousness in the twentieth century can hardly be overestimated. Weininger's major work became the epitaph of the gallant age, a signal that the two sexes had come together in direct opposition or in search of a new union, harmony on different grounds than before. And it was super relevant: it was not without reason that within the first three decades after its release, the sensational work was published in dozens of copies in most European languages. The proposed book is the text of one of the earliest Russian editions (1903) with maximally restored commentary, revealing the context of the time and giving the opportunity to look at the personality of the author from a fundamentally new angle. Accused of misogyny by both contemporaries and descendants, Weininger only delivered a ruthlessly accurate verdict on his epoch and, like no one else, managed to grasp the ominous Zeitgeist of the just-beginning twentieth century.
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