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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

Authors:
Siri Hustvedt (author) and Christopher Lin (covers)
Language:
English
Original language:
English
Publisher:
Sceptre
Categories:
Anthology, art, essay, philosophy and psychology
Publication year:
2017
Original publication year:
2016
ISBN:
978-1-473-63890-7
Pages:
552
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Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction

I A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

  • A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
  • Balloon Magic
  • My Louise Bourgeois
  • Anselm Kiefer: The Truth Is Always Gray
  • Mapplethorpe/Almodóvar: Points and Counterpoints
  • Wim Wenders's Pina: Dancing for Dance
  • Much Ado About Hairdos
  • Sontag on Smut: Fifty Years Later
  • "No Competition"
  • The Writing Self and the Psychiatric Patient
  • Inside the Room

II The Delusions of Certainty

III What are We?: Lectures on the Human Condition

  • Borderlands: First, Second, and Third Person Adventures in Crossing Disciplines
  • Becoming Others
  • Why One Story and Not Another?
  • I Wept for Four Years and When I Stopped I Was Blind
  • Suicide and the Drama of Self-Consciousness
  • Subjunctive Flights: Thinking Through the Embodied Reality of Imaginary Worlds
  • Remembering in Art: The Horizontal and the Vertical
  • Philosophy Matters in Brain Matters
  • Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms and the Truths of Fiction
  • Notes
  • Author's Previously Published Essays

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