The philosophy of improvisation
By: Gary Peters
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Presses Marketing [distributor]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill; Bristol
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226662794
Subjects: Improvisation (Music); Music; Philosophy and aesthetics
Description: Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of clichés. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, this book ranges across the arts and considers the improvised dimension of philosophy itself.
Notes: Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: The sense of a beginning; title: Scrap yard challenge : junkyard wars; title: Freedom, origination, and irony; title: Mimesis and cruelty; title: Improvisation, origination, and re-novation; title: Improvisation, thinking, writing.