L’ « Aristote » de Rembrandt : une intervention de la peinture en philosophie

Abstract

Can critical or material hermeneutics be applied to works that are not textual, but pictorial? This is what we try to anayse here for a painting of Rembrandt ("Aristotle"), showing both the methodological limitations of traditional hermeneutics and of the common phenomenology. The first fails to a sufficient "reduction" of the pictorial structure itself, the second neglects the historical datas of the debate in which the work takes his options.

Keywords

• hermeneutics
• interpretation
• painting
• phenomenology
• picture
• Rembrandt