A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501141090 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Blazing World never runs out of steam in dispensing ideas and peeling back layers of truth.” (Chicago Tribune)“The Blazing World is Siri Hustvedt’s best novel yet, an electrifying work with a titanic, poignantly flawed protagonist. 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. The Blazing World is a
Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology, and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound and powerful consideration of suicide.There has been much talk about building a beautiful bridge across the chasm that separates the sciences and the humanities. A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.Siri Hustvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the humanities, and the sciences. Her lively, lucid essays in A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women begin to make some sense of those plural p
Bought it because love earlier book " My life " Too sophisticated for me sorry .Bought it because love earlier book " My life ". Bookreporter said A collection for committed and persistent readers, and engaged and curious minds. 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 tries to bridge it with a number of writings on provocative and challenging themes. With a diversi. 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 slag. Siri Hustvedt's insistence about writing about herself is tiresome, Kierkegaard is not a good
Siri Hustvedt was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the novelist Paul Auster. 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