Artist-Philosopher and Poetic Hermeneutics

<p>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.</p><p>Taking a transhistorical and global view Smith engages artists writers and thinkers from Western and non-Western periods regions and cultures. Thus we see that poetic hermeneutics reconstitutes philosophy and art as hybridizations of art and science the artist and the philosopher subject and object. In turn the artist-philosopher's poetic-hermeneutic reconstitution of philosophy and art is meant to transform human consciousness.</p><p>This book will be of interest to artists and scholars working in studio practice art history aesthetics philosophy cultural studies history of ideas history of consciousness psychoanalytic studies myth studies literary studies and creative writing.</p>