Siri Hustvedt: a modelic reflection on the nature of philosophy

The American writer Siri Hustvedt has been the recipient of the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2019. 
In her easy but paramount (also viral, by the way) acceptance speech, Hustvedt gave us a superb lesson about many topics we have been talking about in our first unit. 
Among them, she passionately emphasized the importance of critical thinking, the value of the questions, more than the answers, the astonishment caused by ordinary things, the philosopher as a curious child, the problem of identity and the self, the nature of time, how do we know what we think we know, the distrust of any truth or the drawbacks of any specialization. 
Additionally, the laureate addressed the conflict between permanence and change, the need for an eclectic knowledge, open to different sciences and fields of study, all of them with a delightful touch of feminism.

The speech is slowly worded and very easy to understand and has got Spanish subtitles (with minor mistakes), but the original text is worth keeping. HERE it is. I'm looking forward to an upcoming assignment upon it. 😉