Eros and Inwardness in Vienna : Weininger, Musil, Doderer.

Although we usually think of the intellectual legacy of twentieth-century Vienna as synonymous with Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theories, other prominent writers from Vienna were also radically reconceiving sexuality and gender. In this probing new study, David Luft recovers the work of thr...

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Author / Creator: Luft, David S.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Science and Irrationalism in Vienna, 1848-1900
  • Liberal Vienna
  • Scientific Materialism
  • Philosophical Irrationalism
  • Thinking about Sexuality and Gender
  • Chapter Two: Otto Weininger's Vision of Gender and Modern Culture
  • Gender and Character
  • Gender and Method
  • Gender and Ethics
  • Gender and Modernity
  • Chapter Three: Love and Human Knowledge
  • Science and the Writer
  • Sexuality and Ethics
  • Ideology and Soul
  • Gender and the Other Condition
  • Chapter Four: Sexuality and the Politics of the Fascist Era
  • The War and the Writer
  • The Novel and National Socialism
  • Eros and Apperception, 1938-1955
  • Ideology and the Novel
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.