Professor Ken Gemes
Otto Weininger, Women and Jews: How it all went Wrong
Summary
Professor Ken Gemes explores the intersection of Otto Weininger (1880–1903), women, and Jews and explains why this was such a destructive combination of forces.
Professor Ken Gemes
Ken Gemes received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. He came to Birkbeck in 2000 having taught for ten years at Yale University. Ken’s interests range from technical issues concerning logical content and confirmation to Nietzsche’s account of how philosophy is merely the last manifestation of the ascetic ideal.
Yeah, mainstream philosophy didn’t take Weininger that seriously. He was more part of the, cool critics took him seriously. Actually, Carl Krause was pretty critical of Weininger. But Carl Krause was critical of Freud and just about, and Nordau everyone else.
Yeah, okay. Conspiracy theories are being accepted by a large amount of people, especially in America. What really interesting about Weininger is how super brilliant people like Wittgenstein and Freud took him seriously. You know, a lot of these conspiracy theories now traffic among, you know not people greatly intellectually endowed. No, there are some, intellectually endowed who do fall in with them, I’ll admit. But, Weininger was hot stuff among, Sternberg, Ford, Maddox. Ford was discussing him, Conrad was discussing him, highbrow intellectuals were taking Weininger very seriously.
I don’t think he was a drug taker.