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A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN - SIRI ...

As well as being a prize-winning  bestselling novelist  Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a
leading thinker in the fields of neurology  feminism  art criticism and philosophy. She
believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations
across disciplines are vital to increasing our knowledge of the human mind and body  how they
connect and how we think  feel and see. The essays in this volume - all written between 2011
and 2015 - are in three parts. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women brings together
penetrating pieces on particular artists and writers such as Picasso  Kiefer and Susan Sontag
as well as essays investigating the biases that affect how we judge art  literature  and the
world in general. The Delusions of Certainty is an essay about the mind body problem  showing
how this age-old philosophical puzzle has shaped contemporary debates on many subjects and how
every discipline is coloured by what lies beyond argument-desire  belief  and the imagination.
The essays in the final section  What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition  tackle such
elusive neurological disorders as synesthesia and hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology 
neurobiology  history  genetics  statistics  psychology and psychiatry  this section also
contains a profound consideration of suicide and a towering reconsideration Kierkegaard.
Together they form an extremely stimulating  thoughtful  wide-ranging exploration of some of
the fundamental questions about human beings and the human condition  delivered with Siri
Hustvedt's customary lucidity  vivacity and infectiously questioning intelligence.

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