Review
"Sengoopta has done something I would have considered impossible: he convinced me, by tracing the roots of Weininger's thought, that it was worthwhile to read his book about a man I had considered unworthy of serious study. . . . I would hazard the conclusion that, despite his rabidness, Weininger articulated some main currents of thought . . . and that his work is relevant today as a jumping off point for explorations of issues that still concern us."-Hannah S. Decker, "ISIS -- Hannah S. Decker "ISIS"
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"[This] study contributes to our understanding of Weininger by locating him more precisely in the context of late nineteenth-century medicine and biology. Sengoopta clarifies the historical standard-especially scientific, but also moral-against which to read Weininger, and he makes this peculiar writer comprehensible by providing a realistic sense of his scientific frame of reference."-David S. Luft,
Central European History (David S. Luft Central European History )
"[Sengoopta] takes Weininger's scientific interests seriously, and in a series of finely crafted readings locates Weininger's concerns within a constellation of fields ranging from experimental psychology to research on sex glands, and the study of homosexuality."-Andreas Killen, German-Studies Review (Andreas Killen German-Studies Review )
"Sengoopta, in his highly informative study, convincingly shows that Geschlecht und Charakter is a `serious, comprehensive, and emotionally charged ideological critique of modernity in general and of women's emancipation in particular.'"-Volker Depkat, H-Net Reviews (Volker Depkat H-Net Reviews )
"Sengoopta has done something I would have considered impossible: he convinced me, by tracing the roots of Weininger's thought, that it was worthwhile to read his book about a man I had considered unworthy of serious study. . . . I would hazard the conclusion that, despite his rabidness, Weininger articulated some main currents of thought . . . and that his work is relevant today as a jumping off point for explorations of issues that still concern us."-Hannah S. Decker, ISIS (Hannah S. Decker ISIS )
"Sengoopta presents a learned, modest and sensible account of Weininger's major work. . . . It is a major contribution to the literature on this extraordinary icon of early twentieth-century Vienna." (S.A.M. Burns Annals of Science )
