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Georg Simmel Wishing to \Save\ Otto Weininger, or the Blurring Definitions of (Philosemitic) Science and (Antisemitic) Pseudoscience
2021
Overview
Georg Simmel's depiction of the Jew as an absolut formlos that can tolerate any content may be understood as a pure sociation, an ideal of modern society as a site that increasingly consists of highly individuated individuals. Hence, while the definition of the Jew as a \"man without qualities\" led Austrian-Jewish philosopher Otto Weininger on a path to self-destruction and the denial of the capability of Jews for individuality, it led Simmel to self-approval. Nonetheless, both Simmel's and Weininger's theories regarding modernity, mobility, Jewishness, and femininity operated in a consistent and coherent Zeitgeist. Scholem's anecdote about Simmel and Weininger signifies the resemblance between core (scientific) and marginal (pseudoscientific) figures of modern social science, at the moment and place of the discipline's formation. However, the criteria for these definitions remain unclear.
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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