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That question informs the author’s fertile inquiry into mind, brain, and imagination. A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN. A wide-ranging, irreverent, and absorbing meditation on thinking, knowing, and being.

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What are we? That question informs the author’s fertile inquiry into mind, brain, and imagination. Taking the perspective of “a perpetual outsider who looks in on several disciplines,” Hustvedt (Psychiatry/Weill Medical School, The Blazing World , 2014, etc.) gathers recent essays and talks on the intellectual topics that have long occupied her: art and perception, the mind/body conundrum, madness, consciousness, memory, and empathy. She organizes these pieces into three sections: “A Woman Looking at Men Looking At Women,” which considers the works of Picasso, Koons, and Louise Bourgeois, an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs curated by filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wender’s homage to choreographer Pina Bausch, and the author’s experience teaching writing to mental patients and undergoing psychoanalysis herself. The second and third sections, “Delusions of Certainty” and “What Are We?” consider more directly issues of mind and consciousness: “What is a person, a self? Is there a self? What is a mind? Is a mind different from a brain?” Hustvedt feels decidedly unsatisfied by the results of fMRI investigations that map brain activity during such events as reading or looking at art. That research, she maintains, “reflects a simplistic correspondence between a psychological state…and its neural correlates, without much thought about further meanings or the philosophical issues involved.” Nor does she have patience for the assertions of neo-Darwinists—Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker comes in for repeated criticism—who “justify why things are the way they are” by privileging nature over nurture and insisting that certain traits (men being better at mathematics than women, for example) are “rooted in biology.” Hustvedt draws upon—and presents with sharp clarity—a prodigious number of sources, including Kierkegaard (whom she first read when she was 15), William James, Kant, George Lakoff (for his investigation of metaphors), physicist Niels Bohr, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, and 17th-century scientist Margaret Cavendish, “an adamant materialist” who took issue with Descartes’ mind/body dualism, as does Hustvedt. A wide-ranging, irreverent, and absorbing meditation on thinking, knowing, and being. Pub Date: Dec. 6, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-5011-4109-6. Page Count: 576. Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Review Posted Online: Sept. 16, 2016. Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 2016. Categories: Share your opinion of this book. More by Siri Hustvedt. BOOK REVIEW. BOOK REVIEW. BOOK REVIEW. A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. by Howard Zinn ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1979. For Howard Zinn, long-time civil rights and anti-war activist, history and ideology have a lot in common. Since he thinks that everything is in someone’s interest, the historian—Zinn posits—has to figure out whose interests he or she is defining/defending/reconstructing (hence one of his previous books, The Politics of History ). Zinn has no doubts about where he stands in this people’s history”: “it is a history disrespectful of governments and respectful of people’s movements of resistance.” So what we get here, instead of the usual survey of wars, presidents, and institutions, is a survey of the usual rebellions, strikes, and protest movements. Zinn starts out by depicting the arrival of Columbus in North America from the standpoint of the Indians (which amounts to their standpoint as constructed from the observations of the Europeans), and, after easily establishing the cultural disharmony that ensued, he goes on to the importation of slaves into the colonies. Add the laborers and indentured servants that followed, plus women and later immigrants, and you have Zinn’s amorphous constituency. To hear Zinn tell it, all anyone did in America at any time was to oppress or be oppressed, and so he obscures as much as his hated mainstream historical foes do—only in Zinn’s case there is that absurd presumption that virtually everything that came to pass was the work of ruling-class planning: this amounts to one great indictment for conspiracy. Despite surface similarities, this is not a social history, since we get no sense of the fabric of life. Instead of negating the one-sided histories he detests, Zinn has merely reversed the image, the distortion remains. Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1979. ISBN: 0061965588. Page Count: 772. Publisher: Harper & Row. Review Posted Online: May 26, 2012. Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan.

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