Deep Talk with Siri Hustvedt- How to be Human
Siri Hustvedt is one of the most important contemporary American authors. She writes novels, essays and also researches neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
Philosopher Martin Ebeling will discuss important themes in her writing and research: What is the human being? What is thinking? What is the relationship between body and mind? What is at the core of who we are, even if we change in the course of life? How do male and female perspectives and thought patterns differ? And of course we also want to hear from her, who has been married to Paul Auster for almost 40 years, what the special challenges of a “writer couple” are and how the two of them overcame them.
The event is held in English.
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Further information:
Recording of the 90-minute online talk on Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 8.00 pm to 9.30 pm
Available on demand for 10 days after receipt of access.
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Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt was born in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1955. She studied literature at Columbia University and earned her doctorate with a thesis on Charles Dickens. She has published seven novels so far. She had her international breakthrough with "What I Loved". Most recently, she published "The Summer Without Men". "The Blazing World" and "Memories of the Future". At the same time, she is a distinguished essayist with volumes such as " Yonder. Essays.", "Living, Thinking, Looking. Essays", "Being a Man", „The Delusions of Certainty." and "A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind.“. She lives in New York and has been married to author Paul Auster for almost 40 years.
Dr. Martin Ebeling
Dr. Martin Ebeling is Head of The School of Life for Business Germany. He facilitates events, leads classes and workshops in the public and business programs of The School of Life. He holds a PhD in philosophy and studied philosophy and political science in New York, Berlin, Potsdam and Frankfurt a. M.. As an author, he has published numerous scientific philosophical essays as well as the book "Conciliatory Democracy", in which he advocates a different approach to the disagreements in political opinion that shape our times.