Wittgenstein Reads Weininger

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Wittgenstein’s Influences......Page 11
Why Weininger?......Page 17
The Uses of Reading......Page 21
Early Assessments......Page 22
Reassessments......Page 26
Notes......Page 32
References......Page 35
Did Weininger Influence the Later Wittgenstein?......Page 39
Externalist-Negative Approaches......Page 40
Direct Evidence......Page 43
A Positive Textual Approach: Wittgenstein Rereads Weininger......Page 47
Clarification......Page 51
Reverence, Language, Similes, and Projection......Page 53
Anti-essentialism......Page 58
Attention to Particulars......Page 61
A Heuristic Role for the Ideal......Page 62
Philosophical Error and the Teaching of Difference......Page 64
Wittgenstein, Weininger, and Spengler on the Prototype......Page 66
Conclusion......Page 67
Postscript......Page 69
References......Page 70
2 Weininger and the Two Wittgensteins......Page 72
Notes......Page 94
Introduction......Page 99
Weininger in Translation......Page 100
Sex......Page 109
Solipsism......Page 112
Notes......Page 118
References......Page 120
4 Wittgenstein and Weininger......Page 122
Notes......Page 142
5 Uncanny Differences......Page 148
Weininger’s “Theory of Double Life”: Genius or Criminal?......Page 151
Theory of Judgment: Logic and Ethics......Page 152
Definitions (Criminal, Genius, Science, Culture, Religion, Philosophy): The Quest for the Self......Page 153
Tragedy......Page 155
The Form of Weininger’s Thought “+” Hyper-empirical ideal/ …Empirical Continuum…/Hyper-empirical ideal “-”......Page 157
An Aesthetic Theory of Judgment......Page 160
Logic and Ethics: The Philosopher as Criminal......Page 163
The Dissolution of Tragedy......Page 164
Conclusion: Wittgenstein’s Double Perspective: General Relativism versus Personal Fundamentalism......Page 165
Epilogue: Spirit and Doppelgänger......Page 167
Spirit......Page 168
Doppelgänger......Page 169
The same complex of phenomena is taken up again in Sex and Character......Page 171
Notes......Page 173
Introduction......Page 179
Lichtenberg: “Wherever We Look, We See Only Ourselves.”......Page 181
Weininger’s “Animal Psychology”......Page 183
Wittgenstein’s “Animal Psychology”......Page 189
Conclusion: Looking, and Seeing Differences......Page 197
Notes......Page 200
References......Page 204