{"product_id":"a-woman-looking-at-men-looking-at-women-essays-on-art-sex-and-the-mind-paperback","title":"A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSiri Hustvedt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling, radical, \"richly explored\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"insightful\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prizewinning novelist Siri Hustvedt, acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003ethe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\"The Delusions of Certainty,\"\u003c\/i\u003e Hustvedt dissects the mind-body problem, revealing how neuroscience, AI, and evolutionary psychology often oversimplify the complexities of human consciousness. \u003ci\u003e\"What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition\"\u003c\/i\u003e delves into Kierkegaard, suicide, synesthesia, memory, hysteria, and the role of fiction in understanding identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWide-ranging and deeply erudite, \u003ci\u003eA Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, five collections of essays, two works of nonfiction, and seven novels, including the international bestsellers \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Summer Without Men\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World \u003c\/i\u003ewas longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. She is the recipient of many other awards, including the Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities, the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, an American Academy of Arts and Letters prize, and the Sigourney Award for expanding psychoanalytic thought. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52909353238752,"sku":"9781501141102","price":24.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/cX2duVVYzD9781501141102.webp?v=1781587182","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/a-woman-looking-at-men-looking-at-women-essays-on-art-sex-and-the-mind-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}