Hirstian

comparative more Hirstian · superlative most Hirstian

1. Of or relating to Paul Hirst (1946-2003), British sociologist and political theorist.

   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.

   2003, David Carr, Education, Knowledge and Truth: Beyond the Postmodern Impasse

2. Of or relating to Damien Hirst (born 1965), English artist.

   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.

   2009, Andrew Smith, Queering the Gothic, page 187