ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2016
Jezik: Engleski
Vrsta: Eseji i kritike
Autor: Strani

Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

Izdavač: Sceptre
Povez: tvrd sa omotom
Broj strana: 552
Omotnica na nekoliko mesta sanirana selotejpom, sama knjiga veoma dobro očuvana.

As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the fields of neurology, feminism, art criticism and philosophy. She believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations across disciplines are vital to increasing our knowledge of the human mind and body, how they connect and how we think, feel and see.

The essays in this volume - all written between 2011 and 2015 - are in three parts. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women brings together penetrating pieces on particular artists and writers such as Picasso, Kiefer and Susan Sontag as well as essays investigating the biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general.

The Delusions of Certainty is an essay about the mind/body problem, showing how this age-old philosophical puzzle has shaped contemporary debates on many subjects and how every discipline is coloured by what lies beyond argument-desire, belief, and the imagination.

The essays in the final section, What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition, tackle such elusive neurological disorders as synesthesia and hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound consideration of suicide and a towering reconsideration of Kierkegaard. Together they form an extremely stimulating, thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of some of the fundamental questions about human beings and the human condition, delivered with Siri Hustvedt`s customary lucidity, vivacity and infectiously questioning intelligence.

Siri Hustvet, premda supruga svetski poznatog pisca, Pola Ostera, izgradila je svoju, osobenu književnu karijeru nezavisno od muževljeve. Norveškog porekla, književnica je rođena i odrasla u Minesoti. Počela je da objavljuje književne radove 1990. godine: najpre kratke priče, zatim zbirku pesama, da bi usledila tri romana – Zaslepljeni, Začarana Lili Dal i Sve što sam voleo.

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