Beschreibung:
This book explores the various ways in which Wittgenstein absorbed and responded to Weininger's ideas.
1. Introduction: Reading Wittgenstein (on) reading David G. Stern and Béla Szabados; 2. Eggshells or nourishing yolks? A portrait of Wittgenstein as a Weiningerian Béla Szabados; 3. Weininger and the two Wittgensteins Allan Janik; 4. Sex and solipsism: Weininger's On Last Things Steven Burns; 5. Wittgenstein and Weininger: time, life, world Joachim Schulte; 6. Uncanny differences; Wittgenstein and Weininger as Doppelgänger Daniel Steuer; 7. Weininger and Wittgenstein on 'animal psychology' David G. Stern.