The Thinking Woman

Name: The Thinking Woman
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781742236308
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The Thinking Woman by Julienne van Loon delves into the philosophical musings and experiences of women across various intellectual domains. The author explores topics such as love, work, freedom, and faith by engaging deeply with leading thinkers and her own personal reflections. This blend of memoir and philosophical inquiry offers a rich and insightful journey into the complexities of women's thoughts and lives.
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You might enjoy this engaging and introspective exploration if you're intrigued by the intersections of philosophy and feminism. The author weaves personal narratives with deep conversations with renowned female thinkers, offering keen insights into pressing life questions and the challenges women face in contemporary society. This book appeals to those interested in thoughtful reflections on love, work, and ethics from a distinctly female perspective.

WINNER of the Australian Book Design Awards 2020 Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

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WINNER of the Australian Book Design Awards 2020
Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

Highly Commended for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2019 for Non-Fiction

One of the age-old questions of philosophy is what does it mean to live a good life? In this extraordinary book, scholar and writer, Julienne van Loon, applies a range of philosophical ideas to her own experience. Van Loon engages with the work of six leading contemporary thinkers and writers - Rosi Braidotti, Nancy Holmstrom, Siri Hustvedt, Laura Kipnis, Julia Kristeva and Marina Warner - through interrogating and enlivening their ideas on love, play, fear, work, wonder and friendship.

Her journey is intellectual and deeply personal, political and intimate at once. It introduces readers to six extraordinary women whose own deeply thoughtful work has much to offer all of us. They may transform our own views of what it means to live a good life.

'...a knotty, charismatic exploration of the intersection between ideas and lived experience, through six central themes...Van Loon has dared to think about how we might have serious conversations about how and why we live, invited a range of impressive thinkers to the table, and submitted her own experience as a kind of case study for application of the ideas that arise. The result is a surprising and resonant work that cements Julienne van Loon's status as a thinking woman well worth reading and following.' - Jo Case, Sydney Morning Herald

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742236308

Publisher: NewSouth Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: NewSouth Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

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Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction

About the Author

Julienne van Loon is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Road Story, Beneath the Bloodwood Tree and Harmless. She lives in Melbourne, where she holds a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship with the writing and publishing program at RMIT University. Julienne's honours include the Australian/Vogel's Award and an appointment as Honorary Fellow in Writing with the University of Iowa. The Thinking Woman is her first work of non-fiction.