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The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent
decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local
players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west
of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances within
government and civil society that provide the rising's context. It
examines insurrectionist preparation by radicals, the progress of
the events of 1820, contemporary accounts and legacy
memorialisation of 1820, including newspaper and literary
testimony, and the monumental 'afterlife' of the rising. As well as
the famous march of radicals led by John Baird and Andrew Hardie,
so often seen as the centre of the 1820 'moment', this volume casts
light on other, more neglected insurrectionary activity within the
rising and a wide set of cultural circumstances that make 1820 more
complex than many would like to believe. 1820: Scottish Rebellion
demonstrates that the legacy of 1820 may be approached in numerous
ways that cross disciplinary boundaries and cause us to question
conventional historical interpretations.
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Simon Marsh, Graham Desroy, Al Leary, Martin Crook, Adam Wainwright, …
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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 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. 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.
In The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy, Smith argues that
Western Metaphysics has indeed come to what Heidegger describes as
"an end." That is hardly to say philosophy as such is over or soon
to disappear; rather, its purpose as a medium of cultural change
and as a generator of history has run its course. He thus calls for
a New Philosophy, conceptualized by the artist-philosopher who
"makes" or "poeticizes" New Philosophy, spanning literary and
theoretical discourses and operating across art in all its forms
and across culture in all its locations. To this end, Smith
proposes the establishment of schools and social networks that
advance the training and development of artist-philosophers, as
well as global digital networks that are themselves designed toward
this "ever-becoming community."
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