Is the Hermeneutic Interpretation of Art Erotic? A Reader of Gadamer Responds to Sontag’s Challenge

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics

Dominika Czakon¹ 

[1] Jagiellonian University in Kraków;

关键词: hans‑georg gadamer;    susan sontag;    hermeneutics;    erotics of art;    interpretation;   

DOI  :  10.19205/43.16.2

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Theobjectofthearticleistoassesswhethertheconceptsoferoticaandtheerot-ic can be identified with the hermeneutic interpretation of art as understood by Hans‑Georg Gadamer. The starting point of the discussion is Susan Sontag’s essay ‘Against interpretation’, in which the concept of the erotic interpretation of art is outlined and which culminates with the author setting up a deliberate opposition between the erotics of art and hermeneutics. The present article is an attempt to present the issue of the eroticism of hermeneutic interpretation on the basis of Son-tag’s essay, and thus a response to the provocation contained in this essay. In the fi-nal part of the text, another possible approach to the issue of the postulated eroti-cism of hermeneutics is presented.The first part of the present article is devoted to explaining what Sontag means when she writes about the erotics of art and hermeneutics. The next part will dem-onstrate the connections and similarities between the concept of erotic art present-ed by Sontag and Gadamer’s concept of the hermeneutic interpretation of art. In the third part of the article I present Gadamer’s proposition and answer the question of whether the hermeneutic interpretation of art can be erotic. The final part of the ar-ticle is devoted to invoking additional arguments for linking erotics and hermeneu-tics, followed by a summary.

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