A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women Siri Hustvedt by Siri Hustvedt 9781501141096, 1501141090, B01CO345ZQ instant download after payment.

"A wide-ranging, irreverent, and absorbing meditation on thinking, knowing, and being."  -  Kirkus Reviews

In a trilogy of works brought together in a single volume, Siri Hustvedt demonstrates the striking range and depth of her knowledge in both the humanities and the sciences. Armed with passionate curiosity, a sense of humour, and insights from many disciplines she repeatedly upends received ideas and cultural truisms. Her lively, lucid essays in A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women begin to make some sense of those plural perspectives.  

Divided into three parts, the first section, A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women, investigates the perceptual and gender biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. The second part, The Delusions of Certainty, is about the age-old mind/body problem that has haunted Western philosophy since the Greeks. The final section, What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition discuss neurological disorders and the mysteries of hysteria. 

"Canonical... Conveys the wide range of Hustvedt's reading as she focuses on the interstices between people; between disciplines; and between concepts such as art and science, truth and fiction, feeling and perception."  -  Publishers Weekly

There has been much talk about building a beautiful bridge across the chasm that separates the sciences and the humanities. At the moment, we have only a wobbly walkway, but Hustvedt is encouraged by the travellers making their way across it in both directions. A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women is an insightful account of the journeys back and forth.