Alessandro Bertinetto

Aesthetics of Improvisation

Translated from Italian by Robert T. Valgenti

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Perspectives in European Philosophy / Zeitgenössische Perspektiven europäischer Philosophi
• Verlag: Brill Fink / Brill Fink
• Seitenzahl: 165
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9783770567072
• ISBN-10: 3770567072
• Artikelnr.: 63710873

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Bertinetto is a professor of philosophy at the University of Turin (Italy). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the FU Berlin and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Aesthetics (2012-2018). Currently, he is the Coordinator of the philosophical seminar "Aesthetics Research Torino".