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>>20971467
I just looked up Weininger in Wikipedia and... holy shit.

I'm pretty damn sure he reincarnated in the 20th century as Beatles drummer Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey

>Weininger argues that emancipation is only possible for the "masculine woman", e.g. some lesbians
>the duty of the male [...] is to strive to become a genius, and to forgo sexuality
>In Hitler’s Favorite Jew, Professor Allan Janik [...] argues that, contrary to the received wisdom, Weininger’s true goal was progressive and humanistic.
Was he the original lgbt ally, /lit/?

He was a feminine gay and so he killed himself.

>>20451855
LOL LOOK AT THIS DUDE

What's the deal with this guy?
Is there any truth to anything he wrote?

Isn't it remarkable that the Woman Question has virtually disappeared from public and even private consciousness in the course of a century or at most has survived only in a degenerate and innocuous form at the precise historical moment when it demands most pressingly to be addressed and is neglected at our peril? Aren't we seeing the consequences of this neglect?

>>19362352
Sad jewish boy decides life isn't worth living and kills himself, many such cases

> His book was praised by Wittgenstein, who nevertheless distanced himself from its views. His contributions to philosophy were around the nature of genius. He held that Jews were essentially feminine, as such had were amoral, without a sense of good or evil, and thus as a consequence were soulless. He also held that women were amoral soulless types. Modern decay was traced to the amoral irreligious Jewish/feminine nature of modern times. Weininger correlated femininity with what he called Jewishness.

> The Nazis had mixed feelings about Weininger, but Hitler himself said, “Dietrich Eckart once told me that in all his life he had known just one good Jew: Otto Weininger, and he killed himself…”

What is the appeal of this guy and why do both Cioran and Wiggerstein praise him? I'm looking for his words on women in particular, since I dislike them

>Nietzche

Was Otto Weininger the greatest thinker of the 20th century? I can only think of Spengler coming close to him

>Hitler recalled a remark his mentor Dietrich Eckart made about Weininger: "I only knew one decent Jew and he committed suicide on the day when he realized that the Jew lives upon the decay of peoples...".[21]

>In the chapter titled "Judaism" in his book Sex and Character[22] Weininger writes:
>The Jewish race has been chosen by me as a subject of discussion, because, as will be shown, it presents the gravest and most formidable difficulties for my views. I must, however, make clear what I mean by Judaism; I mean neither a race nor a people nor a recognised creed. I think of it as a tendency of the mind, as a psychological constitution which is a possibility for all mankind, but which has become actual in the most conspicuous fashion only amongst the Jews. Antisemitism itself will confirm my point of view.
>...Thus the fact is explained that the bitterest Antisemites are to be found amongst the Jews themselves.
>The true concept of the State is foreign to the Jew, because he, like the woman, is wanting in personality; his failure to grasp the idea of true society is due to his lack of free intelligible ego. Like women, Jews tend to adhere together, but they do not associate as free independent individuals mutually respecting each other's individuality.
>As there is no real dignity in women, so what is meant by the word "gentleman" does not exist amongst the Jews. The genuine Jew fails in this innate good breeding by which alone individuals honour their own individuality and respect that of others. There is no Jewish nobility, and this is the more surprising as Jewish pedigrees can be traced back for thousands of years. The familiar Jewish arrogance has a similar explanation...
>Later in the same chapter he writes:

>The faults of the Jewish race have often been attributed to the repression of that race by Aryans, and many Christians are still disposed to blame themselves in this respect. But the self-reproach is not justified. Outward circumstances do not mould a race in one direction, unless there is in the race the innate tendency to respond to the moulding forces; the total result comes at least as much from a natural disposition as from the modifying circumstances.
>The Jew is not really anti-moral. But, none the less, he does not represent the highest ethical type. He is rather non-moral, neither good nor bad.
>So also in the case of the woman...
>...In the Jew and the woman, good and evil are not distinct from one another. Jews, then, do not live as free, self-governing individuals, choosing between virtue and vice in the Aryan fashion...

>>18861014
>Otto Weininger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UC9eoAE0QE

Pic Related. Had he looked like someone like Jünger, his "Sex and Character" would be taken as undeniable truth by now and an indispensable classic

wtf bros
did he really kill himself because he was jewish?

Imagine wanting to be a woman lmao

>>18514386
Weininger

>>18508931
>Leave women to me

Would he have been famous at all had he not killed himself in the room where Beethoven died?

Is there any place on the Internet where I can get the quality of discussions that happened on /lit/ pre-2018?

Was Weininger right in that if a woman has strong beliefs and convictions of her own, she would no longer be a "woman"? Or are there other aspects to femininity besides having low self-esteem and revolving around others?

I think I'm gonna Otto myself

>>17917312
Book for this feel?