Monstrous hermeneutics

This paper addresses a theory/practice nexus represented by a semiotic system of Tarot pictures as iconic signs. Tarot will be analyzed from the perspective of Charles S. Peirce's and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies. Tarot functions as a diagram or the included third between "self" and "other," which are traditionally taken as binary opposites. It thus partakes of the "monster" as a grotesque and ambiguous category that betrays a strict boundary between habitual dualisms, such as mind and world, consciousness and the unconscious, human and divine. While Tarot is usually perceived as irrational and illogical if not altogether "monstrous," it is the logic of the included middle that enables its functioning. Genuine signs have a triadic structure that includes interpretants crossing over human and non-human natures. The process of reading and interpreting Tarot signs represents specific hermeneutics and constitutes exopedagogy as an alternative form of education partaking of a posthuman dimension. As indices, Tarot pictures refer to the whole gamut of human experiences, and the hermeneutics of Tarot allows us to evaluate experience and to learn from it

Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Irrational number · Literature · Posthumanism · Psychoanalysis · Semiotics · Unconscious mind · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Semiotics and Representation Studies

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