Open AccessMęska trwoga Otto Weiningera
Author(s) -
Nina Gładziuk
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
civitas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-0353
pISSN - 1428-2631
DOI - 10.35757/civ.2017.21.06
Subject(s) - pessimism , passion , character (mathematics) , modernism (music) , state (computer science) , period (music) , plan (archaeology) , work (physics) , sociology , art history , aesthetics , history , psychoanalysis , art , philosophy , epistemology , psychology , engineering , computer science , social psychology , archaeology , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , algorithm
Otto Weininger’s work entitled Sex and Character is an important text in the intellectual history of Viennese modernism of the fin de siècle period. The author makes a pessimistic diagnosis of modern culture, which, according to him, is infected by anti-cultural feminine values. With desperate passion, he looks for a way to heal this state of affairs and finds it in the project of male reorientation in culture. To make this plan a reality, he thoroughly redefines sex and gender. The aim of the article is to investigate various paradoxes and contradictions contained in this famous work.