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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Peters, Gary, 1952- Philosophy of improvisation. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008033642 (OCoLC)237325254 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Peters |
ISBN: | 9780226662800 0226662802 |
OCLC Number: | 435911892 |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction : the sense of a beginning -- Scrap yard challenge : junkyard wars -- Freedom, origination, and irony -- Mimesis and cruelty -- Improvisation, origination, and re-novation -- Conclusion : improvisation, thinking, writing. |
Responsibility: | Gary Peters. |
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Abstract:
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, this title considers the improvised dimension of philosophy itself in order to elaborate an innovative concept of improvisation.
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"This is an unusual book on improvisation: a genuinely philosophical contribution to the literature.... It's impossible to summarize the book's many ingenious arguments in the space of a short review - this is a rich and intriguing discussion." (Wire) "This aptly titled work considers not the how-to of improvisation but rather the motivations and meaning behind spontaneous creation.... A work for anyone who teaches or wishes to reflect on the creative process." (Choice)" Read more...
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