Aesthetics of Improvisation

Translated from Italian by Robert T. Valgenti

By (author) Alessandro Bertinetto

Extent: 165 pages

Publisher: Brill | Fink

Subjects: Art & Art History, Philosophy

Series: Contemporary Perspectives in European Philosophy / Zeitgenossische Perspektiven europaischer Philosophie

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2022)

ISBN: 9783770567072

6.1 x 9.25 inches

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This essay develops a theory of improvisation as practice of aesthetic sense-making. While considering all arts, references are made to many concrete cases. A topic in vogue since the XX. century, as evidenced by the great philosophers who were interested in it (Ryle, Derrida, Eco among others), improvisation, a felicitous mixture of habit and creativity, norm and freedom, is constitutive of human action. Human practices – including very well-regulated activities such as playing chess, piloting airplanes, or medicine – permit and often require it to varying degrees.Improvisation is also the true source of artistic experience. Consequently, the aesthetics of improvisation result in a philosophy of art: Art was born as improvisation. Yet improvisation has its own aesthetic dimension: that of a “grammar of contingency” in which notions such as emergence, presence, curiosity and authenticity explain the pleasures of joyful adventure and empathic involvement elicited by improvisation.

By (author) Alessandro Bertinetto

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