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

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

“A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women”—the title essay—explores not only specific artworks by Picasso, de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, and others, but also the very nature of human perception and the biases embedded in how we view art, literature, and each other.

In “The Delusions of Certainty,” Hustvedt dissects the mind-body problem, revealing how neuroscience, AI, and evolutionary psychology often oversimplify the complexities of human consciousness. “What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition” delves into Kierkegaard, suicide, synesthesia, memory, hysteria, and the role of fiction in understanding identity.