The Artist-Philosopher and Poetic Hermeneutics

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.

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.

Part One: Techn- 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