A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind / Siri Hustvedt.

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Hustvedt, Siri [Browse]
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Book
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English
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Description
xx, 552 pages ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    • A "collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy"--Amazon.com.
    • This collection combines in a single work Hustvedt's trilogy of essays which draw in insights from both the sciences and the humanities. Among the subjects she explores are the biases that influence how we judge art, literature, and the world; how mind-body problems have shaped contemporary thought in the sciences; and an analysis of suicide.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-552).
    Contents
    • I: A woman looking at men looking at women. A woman looking at men looking at women ; Balloon magic ; My Louise Bourgeois ; Anselm Kiefer : the truth is always gray ; Mapplethorpe/Almodóvar : points and counterpoints ; Wim Wenders's Pina : dancing for dance ; Much ado about hairdos ; Sontag on smut : fifty years later ; "No competition" ; The writing self and the psychiatric patient ; Inside the room
    • II: The delusions of certainty
    • III: What are we? : lectures on the human condition. Borderlands : first, second, and third person adventures in crossing disciplines ; Becoming others ; Why one story and not another? ; I wept for four years and when I stopped I was blind ; Suicide and the drama of self-consciousness ; Subjunctive flights : thinking through the embodied reality of imaginary worlds ; Remembering in art : the horizontal and the vertical ; Philosophy matters in brain matters ; Kierkegaard's pseudonyms and the truths of fiction.
    ISBN
    • 9781501141096 ((hardcover))
    • 1501141090 ((hardcover))
    • 9781501141102 ((trade pbk.))
    • 1501141104 ((trade pbk.))
    • 9781501154485 (pbk.)
    • 1501154486 (pbk.)
    LCCN
    2016022677
    OCLC
    957455074
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