| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Contents |
Liberal Vienna -- Scientific materialism -- Philosophical irrationalism -- Thinking about sexuality and gender -- Gender and character -- Gender and method -- Gender and ethics -- Gender and modernity -- Science and the writer -- Sexuality and ethics -- Ideology and soul -- Gender and the other condition -- The war and the writer -- The novel and national socialism -- Eros and apperception : 1938-1955 -- Ideology and the novel |
| Summary |
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 three such writers: Otto Weininger, Robert Musil, and Heimito von Doderer. His account emphasizes the distinctive intellectual world of liberal Vienna, especially the impact of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in this highly scientific intellectual world. According to Luft, Otto Weininger viewed human being |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast |
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Austrian literature -- Austria -- Vienna -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- Austria -- Vienna
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National socialism -- Austria -- Vienna
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Austrian literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Intellectual life
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Manners and customs
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National socialism
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Politics and literature
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Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life
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Vienna (Austria) -- Social life and customs
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Austria -- Vienna
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226496481 |
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0226496481 |
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