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‘Have we kept God’s word intact: the poor you have always with you? Does that sound like the slogan of a demagogue? But it’s God’s word and we have received it. All the worse for the rich who pretend to believe it justifies their selfishness. All the worse for us whom the powerful use as […]

Notes on: Edward J. Bristow, Prostitution and Prejudice: The Jewish Fight Against White Slavery 1870-1939

Notes on:
Brigitte Hamann, Hitler’s Vienna: A Dictator’s Apprenticeship
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Of Weininger: “a profoundly unhappy man of great integrity who perished of his own philosophy.”
Weininger’s moral climate: Jews were associated with the “sexual permissiveness glorified by Viennese modernism.” [See “Damned if we do…” for more on why.]
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They were thought of as uncreative and parasitical, ideas documented in Richard […]

Notes on:
Arthur Evans, “The Logic of Homophobia”
Evans presents a common and severe view of Weininger, and blithely extends it to Wittgenstein—certainly, a kindred spirit. He seems inclined to take Weininger’s misogyny at face value and links it to a certain excessive philologian tendency, finding both equally irredeemable. Though Evans charges Weininger, somewhat unimaginatively, with all […]

Was Otto Weininger a misogynist? Or are we missing something?

Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889, Kaufmann translation, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man”, sec. 20.:
A hatred is aroused—but whom does man hate then? But there is no doubt: the decline of his type. Here he hates out of the deepest instinct of the species; in this hatred there is a shudder, caution, depth, farsightedness—it is […]