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Otto Weininger
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Otto Weininger was an Austrian philosopher and writer who lived a brief life from 1880 to 1903 and became influential in early 20th-century intellectual circles. His work matters because it shaped certain philosophical and cultural debates of his era, though his ideas remain controversial among scholars today.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1929
- Died
- 2003
- Works
- 24
Top works
- Being and not being
- Children's Phantasies
- T.I.P.S. Time-In Parenting Strategies
- Taschenbuch und Briefe an Einen Freund
- Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, 1998, volume 16, number 4
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- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- On the Origin of Cancer Cells
· 1956 · cited 11,437x
- Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report
· 1982 · cited 11,169x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,210x
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Quotes
- “The highest expression of all morality is: Be!”
- “Man must act in such a way that the whole of his individuality lies in each moment.”
- “Most of the time man does not do what he wills, but what he has willed. Through his decisions, he always gives himself only a certain direction, in which he then moves until the next moment of reflection. We do not will continuously, we only will intermittently, piece by piece. We thus save ourselves from willing: principle of the economy of the will. But the higher man always experiences this as thoroughly immoral.”
- “That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.”
- “Psychologism is the most comfortable conception of life, because according to it there are no longer any more problems. That is why it also condemns all solutions from the outset, since it acknowledges the actual problems as little as the idea of truth.”
- “Idiocy: crudeness’ intellectual equivalent.”
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Otto Weininger, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Otto Weininger ( German: [ˈvaɪnɪŋɐ]; 3 April 1880 – 4 October 1903) was an Austrian philosopher who in 1903 published the book Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex and Character), which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23. Weininger had a strong influence on Ludwig Wittgenstein, August Strindberg, and, via his lesser-known work Über die letzten Dinge, on James Joyce.
Life
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