Sex and Character

He wrote two books that attracted much attention.

The first was called Sex and Character, Geschlecht und Charakter.

The second book was only published by friends after his death.

It bore the title Concerning the Last Things, Über die letzten Dinge.

I am speaking about Otto Weininger, a man whom many saw as a true genius of his time.

When he wrote the fat book Sex and Character, it attracted a great deal of attention and the various judgments passed on the book differed greatly.

There were people who viewed it as a kind of gospel proclaimed by the archetypal spirit of the times.

They claimed that this book, title Sex and Character, touched, if somewhat one-sidedly and perhaps not entirely explicitly, on the deepest truths of the contemporary era.

He was absolutely brilliant.

He wrote a book called Sex and Character.

He came from an upper middle class Jewish family.

He had no religion whatsoever.