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Lädt ... Eine Frau schaut auf Männer, die auf Frauen schauen (2016)von Siri Hustvedt
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book is divided into three sections; the first and third are essays on art, philosophy, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis. Hustvedt brings a wealth of knowledge to her pieces and she's a generous thinker. Her central argument is that the mind cannot be studied as an entity abstracted from the body, and crucially, that it exists in relation to other people. The second section is a long essay on the mind/body problem. It's dry, repetitive, and it drove me nuts. She's synthesising a lot of information from various disciplines here, from the sciences to the humanities, and it's an admirable effort, but a lot of parts read like Philosophy 101 and some other parts are dense and complex and hard to engage with if you don't already have a working knowledge of neuroscience and a familiarity with the language of hard science. I'm guessing a lesser-known author would not have been allowed to get away with including this second section/essay, because a lot of the points here are pithily explained in the shorter essays in the third section, minus the repetitive dullness that plagues the monster essay. Having said that, I enjoyed where Hustvedt's mind goes, a lot of the time, and looked up many, many things, but it is the mind of a white, upper middle-class, university-educated woman living in the States, so there are many limitations. Almost zero engagement with non-white thinkers and philosophers who aren't from the "first world". Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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A "collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy"--Amazon.com.
This collection combines in a single work Hustvedt's trilogy of essays which draw in insights from both the sciences and the humanities. Among the subjects she explores are the biases that influence how we judge art, literature, and the world; how mind-body problems have shaped contemporary thought in the sciences; and an analysis of suicide. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I've not really read Hustvedt before, so this is my first foray into her stuff.
I mainly enjoyed the bits on gender, pornography, and on Knausgaard's vile statement where commented on the fact that he almost only wrote about male writers in his "My Struggle" with "No competition"...and the essay on suicide, but sadly not much else, really.
This piece was funny:
There's not much fun in this book, which I think is exactly what Hustvedt intended.
Go, Dickinson!
To examplify why I think Hustvedt's greatness in this book evades me - if it's there, naturally, which it cannot be for all, I think - here's an example:
Names, names and more names. I mean, I adore Sarah Bakewell's book on the existentialists of the 20th century (and Hegel Husserl) but the above just descended into boredom. To me. Still, I'm glad that Hustvedt delved more into the philosopher Merleau-Ponty than Bakewell did at times; still, this essay is another thing entirely than Bakewell's book.
I've got to shout-out Hustvedt as she brings up gender issues:
All in all: bits and pieces were good. ( )