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Viennese philosopher, 1880–1903, whose published doctoral dissertation, a diatribe against women and Jews, brought him instant fame. A Jew himself, he took his own life a few months later, an act praised by anti-Semitic writers as the only reasonable solution to the problems he had had the “wisdom” to recognize.
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Bell, L.A. (1983). Otto Weininger. In: Bell, L.A. (eds) Visions of Women. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5304-4_45
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