Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 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

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About the Author

Nancy A. Harrowitz is author of Antisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao and editor of Tainted Greatness: Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes (Temple).