The philosophy of improvisation /

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Author / Creator:	Peters, Gary, 1952-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 190 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Improvisation (Music) Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. Improvisation (Music) Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11197549

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ISBN:	9780226662800 0226662802 9780226662787 0226662780
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Peters, Gary, 1952- Philosophy of improvisation. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226662787 0226662780

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