Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis of masculinity, psychological introspection versus empiricism, German idealism, the women's movement and the idea of human emancipation, the quest for sexual liberation, and the debates about homosexuality. Combining rational reasoning with irrational outbursts, in the context of today's scholarship, Sex and Character speaks to issues of gender, race,...
Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central ...
Georg Buchner: Contemporary Perspectives examines the continuing relevance of Buchner in the early twenty-first century in terms of politics, science, philosophy, aesthetics, cultural studies and performance studies. It situates Buchner s interdisciplinary work in relation to the philosophical, scientific and religious discourses of his time, while also investigating the ways in which Buchner s intersectional writings anticipated sometimes uncannily questions and problems which were to become central concerns in modernism and after. The nineteen essays in the book, some in English and...
Georg Buchner: Contemporary Perspectives examines the continuing relevance of Buchner in the early twenty-first century in terms of politics, s...
Offering an alternative outlook on contemporary (practical) philosophy, this highly original book provides a conceptual history of responsibility within philosophy, including a critical analysis of the relation between philosophy and its social and political contexts.
Offering an alternative outlook on contemporary (practical) philosophy, this highly original book provides a conceptual history of responsibility with...
