Author: Siri Hustvedt
- Fiction
- Editorial Seix Barral
- ISBN: 9786070744921
- Release Date: 11-21-2017
Synopsis
«La mujer que mira a los hombres que miran a las mujeres». Así define Siri Hustvedt esta ambiciosa reunión de sus mejores ensayos, escritos entre 2011 y 2015. Su vasto conocimiento en un amplio abanico de disciplinas como el arte, la literatura, la neurociencia o el psicoanálisis ilumina una teoría central en su obra ensayística, la de que la percepción está influenciada por nuestros prejuicios cognitivos implícitos, aquellos que no provienen del entorno, sino que se han interiorizado como una realidad psicofisiológica. Una apasionante y radical colección de ensayos sobre el feminismo de la galardonada escritora Siri Hustvedt.
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 humor, and insights from many disciplines, she repeatedly upends received ideas and cultural truisms. "A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women" examines particular artworks but also human perception itself, including the biases that influence how we judge art, literature, and the world. Picasso, de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Karl Ove Knausgaard all come under Hustvedt's intense scrutiny. "The Delusions of Certainty" exposes how the age-old, unresolved mind-body problem has shaped and often distorted and confused contemporary thought in neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology. "What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition" includes a powerful reading of Kierkegaard, a trenchant analysis of suicide, and penetrating reflections on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory and space, and the philosophical dilemmas of fiction.
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