The philosophy of improvisation:
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Main Author: Peters, Gary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index
Introduction : the sense of a beginning -- Scrap yard challenge : junkyard wars -- Freedom, origination, and irony -- Mimesis and cruelty -- Improvisation, origination, and re-novation -- Conclusion : improvisation, thinking, writing
Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, The Philosophy of Improvisation ranges across the arts-from music to theater, dance to comedy-and considers the improvised dimension of philosophy itself in order to elaborate an innovative concept of improvisation. Gary Peters turns to many of the major thinkers within continental philosophy-including Heidegger, Nietzsche, Adorno, Kant, Benjamin, and Deleuze-offering readings of their reflections on im
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 190 pages)
ISBN:0226662802
9780226662800

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