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Book SynopsisInternational scholars examine the legacy of a turn-of-the-century self-hating Austrian Jew
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. A Critical Introduction to the History of Weininger Reception Barbara Hyams and Nancy A. Harrowitz 2. "The Otto Weininger Case" Revisited Jacques Le Rider 3. Fragments from Weininger's Education (1895-1902) Hannelore Rodlauer Part II: In Context 4. How Did Weininger Influence Wittgenstein? Allan Janik 5. Weininger and Lombroso: A Question of Influence Nancy A. Harrowitz 6. Otto Weininger as Liberal? Steven Beller 7. Otto Weininger and Sigmund Freud: Race and Gender in the Shaping of Psychoanalysis Sander L. Gilman 8. Characterology: Weininger and Austrian Popular Science Katherine Arens 9. Otto Weininger and the Critique of Jewish Masculinity John M. Hoberman 10. Weininger and Nazi Ideology Barbara Hyams Part III: Weininger and Modern Literature 11. A Scientific Image of Woman? The Influence of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character on the German Novel Gisela Brude-Firnau 12. Weininger in a Poem by Apollinaire Jeffrey Mehlman 13. Kafka and Weininger Gerald Stieg 14. Weininger and the Bloom of Jewish Self-Hatred in Joyce's Ulysses Marilyn Reizbaum 15. James Joyce's Womanly Wandering Jew Natania Rosenfeld 16. Molly Is Sexuality: The Weiningerian Definition of Woman in Joyce's Ulysses Elfriede Poder 17. Svevo and Weininger (Lord Morton's Mare) Alberto Cavaglion 18. Whores, Mothers, and Others: Reception of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character in Elias Canetti's Auto-Da-Fe Kristie A. Foell 19. Memory and History: The Soul of a Jew by Jehoshua Sobol Freddie Rokem Notes Works Cited Notes on the Contributors Index
