A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt

A compelling, radical, "richly explored" (The New York Times Book Review) and "insightful" (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prizewinning novelist Siri Hustvedt, acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.

In this expansive volume, Hustvedt presents a trilogy of intellectually daring works that reveal the striking breadth of her knowledge across the humanities and sciences. Armed with passionate curiosity and multidimensional insight, she repeatedly challenges cultural assumptions and inherited ideas.

"A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women"--the title essay--explores not only specific artworks by Picasso, de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, and others, but also the very nature of human perception and the biases embedded in how we view art, literature, and each other.

In "The Delusions of Certainty," Hustvedt dissects the mind-body problem, revealing how neuroscience, AI, and evolutionary psychology often oversimplify the complexities of human consciousness. "What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition" delves into Kierkegaard, suicide, synesthesia, memory, hysteria, and the role of fiction in understanding identity.

Wide-ranging and deeply erudite, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women is a vital meditation on thinking, knowing, and being--a landmark of interdisciplinary thought that cements Siri Hustvedt as one of the most perceptive voices of our time.

Hustvedt, Siri: - Siri Hustvedt was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in English literature and is the internationally acclaimed author of several novels, The Sorrows of an American, What I Loved, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, The Blindfold, and The Summer Without Men, as well as a growing body of nonfiction, including Living, Thinking, Looking, A Plea for Eros, and Mysteries of the Rectangle, and an interdisciplinary investigation of the body and mind in The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2011, she delivered the thirty-ninth annual Freud Lecture in Vienna. She lives in Brooklyn.

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ISBN 13	9781501141102
ISBN 10	1501141104
Title	A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Author	Siri Hustvedt
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon And Schuster
Year published	2017-12-12
Number of pages	576
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