A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501141090 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bought it because love earlier book " My life " Marina K. Sofronova Too sophisticated for me sorry .Bought it because love earlier book " My life ". "A collection for committed and persistent readers, and engaged and curious minds" according to Bookreporter. In her introduction to A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN, essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt asks readers to think of this book as her “journey back and forth” across what she sees as the unfortunate chasm between the physical sciences and the humanities. Her own interest in both sides of this seeming divide, especially in the visual arts, literature, philosophy and neuroscience, is deep, and in this collection she . Bertrand Renaud said Siri Hustvedt's insistence about writing about herself is tiresome, Kierkegaard is not a good excuse. Its title made me buy this book. What could I learn from this author yet unknown to me. A woman usually has a different voice and also experiences the world differently from a man. The title promised some sparkling writing and valuable insights. Actually, this 550 pages collection of independent pieces is a roller-coaster in terms of quality of writing and interest. Occasional gemstones can be scraped out of heaps of dense charcoal sl
There is more heat in it, more wildness; it seems to burst on to a whole other level of achievement and grace." (Financial Times)"Densely brilliant, but terrifyingly clever too you don’t need a PhD in Kierkegaard to enjoy Hustvedt’s writing, and it’s a pleasure to feel your brain whirring as it forges links and finds the cracks across differing accounts. Full of life and ideas and intellectual prowess, it’s also a compelling story with richly drawn characters.An extraordinary puzzle.” (The Miami Herald)"Complex, astonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing." (NPR)“This is feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, or Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced. A nove
She has a PhD from Columbia University in English literature and is the internationally acclaimed author of six novels: The Blazing World,The Sorrows of an American,What I Loved,The Enchantment of Lily Dahl,Blindfold, and The Summer Without Men, as well as a growing body of nonfiction including, A Plea for Eros and Mysteries of the Rectangle, and an i
Hustvedt explains the relationship between the mental and the physical realms, showing what lies beyond the argument—desire, belief, and the imagination.The final section, “What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition,” discusses neurological disorders and the mysteries of hysteria. Among the legendary figures considered are Picasso, De Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, the Guerrilla Girls, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.The second part, “The Delusions of Certainty,” is about the age-old mind/body problem that has haunted Western philosophy since the Greeks. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women is an insightful account of the journeys back and for