194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneutics and shows how a particular kind of thinker, the artist-philosopher, practices interpretation in an entirely different way from traditional hermeneutics.
Taking a transhistorical and global view, Smith engages artists, writers, and thinkers from Western and non-Western... Read more
Part One: Technē 1. Paul de Man and the Future of Poetic Hermeneutics 2. Freud’s Nachträglichkeit Part Two: Poiesis 3. Virginia Woolf and the Wolf Man 4. James, Degas, Manet, Picasso, Kruger, Walker, Wilson, Mbembe
Biography
George Smith is Founder, President, and Edgar E. Coons, Jr. Professor of New Philosophy at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA.
