{"product_id":"aesthetics-of-improvisation-alessandro-bertinetto-9783770567072","title":"Aesthetics of Improvisation","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alessandro Bertinetto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3770567072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783770567072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill U Fink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.78lbs","brand":"Alessandro Bertinetto","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48175502590207,"sku":"9783770567072","price":87.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2d32d60f-ff34-47df-844f-55b08e564c42.jpg?v=1771334116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aesthetics-of-improvisation-alessandro-bertinetto-9783770567072","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}