Maintaining that “all human knowledge is partial” (xii), Hustvedt integrates findings from phenomenology, biology, neuroscience, cognitive sciences, psychoanalysis, linguistics, etc., in order to investigate profound philosophical questions, such as: Who are we? What is the self? Where do ideas come from? What is the mind and how is it related to the brain, the consciousness, and the body? What role do emotion, memory, and the unconscious play in perception? Hustvedt’s goal is to “interrogate certainty and trumpet doubt and ambiguity” (149), and eventually inspire her reader to start asking questions about the received ideas and cultural truisms. Siri Hustvedt’s sixth collection of essays, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, even deeper than her previous work, explores the gaps between various modes of thinking within different disciplines. American Studies Reviews, Twentieth Century American Fiction, Volume 63.1 (2018) SIRI HUSTVEDT, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), 552 pp.
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