Hirstian

English

Etymology

Hirst +‎ -ian

Adjective

Hirstian (comparative more Hirstian, superlative most Hirstian)

1. Of or relating to Paul Hirst (1946-2003), British sociologist and political theorist.
   • 2003, David Carr, Education, Knowledge and Truth: Beyond the Postmodern Impasse:

     But, secondly, such problems also affect any uncritical acceptance of a general Hirstian conception of the school curriculum as a set of relatively discrete disciplines—since it is clear from relatively recent educational history that this is not the only available curriculum conception.

2. Of or relating to Damien Hirst (born 1965), English artist.
   • 2009, Andrew Smith, Queering the Gothic, page 187:

     Wotton explicitly lampoons conceptual art, but implicitly it is a Hirstian vision of sex and decay which runs throughout the novel and which informs a series of moments where the flesh is emphasised.