Books by Siri Hustvedt
“She’s neither a scientist nor a philosopher in the technical sense – she’s well-known as a novelist and essayist – but I do think of her as a philosopher and feminist thinker. She reads and writes influentially about science, and is deeply aware of how it matters. She is in fact highly respected in the scientific world for her insights, which are also the output of an artistic mind – she writes astute art criticism as well. I had a hard time choosing one book, but I want to mention just the latest collection of essays, Mothers, Fathers, and Others. It’s about many things, but a lot of it is about motherhood, which matters supremely, and needs to be considered in a different way from the public discourse about it: all of us have mothers, insofar as all of us were contained in someone else’s body. The first essays explore the worlds of her grandmother and mother, and they travel on, as we all do – from begetting, influencing, becoming, to reading, writing, feeling, retelling, recalling.” Read more...
Noga Arikha, Philosopher
“Harriet Burden sees herself very firmly as an artist and she’s mad as hell that the rest of the world doesn’t” Read more...
Kayla Rae Whitaker on Stories about Women Artists
Kayla Rae Whitaker, Journalist
Interviews where books by Siri Hustvedt were recommended
Kayla Rae Whitaker on Stories about Women Artists
Kayla Rae Whitaker composes an ode to ‘women who make things’, from wooden dolls to indie music, and post-modern triptychs to the best candy bar you’ll ever taste. These are tales about what happens when the muse becomes the artist
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
by Antonio Damasio -
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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
by Peter Godfrey-Smith -
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Mind the Body: An Exploration of Bodily Self-Awareness
by Frédérique de Vignemont -
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The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness
edited by Manos Tsakiris and Helena De Preester -
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Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays
by Siri Hustvedt
The best books on Philosophy, Science and the Body, recommended by Noga Arikha
The best books on Philosophy, Science and the Body, recommended by Noga Arikha
Philosophy is a subject of abstract concepts and arguments, traditionally focusing on ideas about the soul or the mind and less so on the body. However, as modern science has made ever more apparent, very little makes sense without it. Philosopher and historian of ideas Noga Arikha recommends books on philosophy, science and the body.