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An Ethics of Improvisation - Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future (Hardcover, New)
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An Ethics of Improvisation - Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future (Hardcover, New)
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An Ethics of Improvisation takes up the puzzles and lessons of
improvised music in order to theorize the building blocks of a
politically just society. The investigation of what politics can
learn from the people who perform and listen to musical
improvisation begins with an examination of current social
discourses about "the political" and an account of what social
justice could look like. From there, the book considers what a
politically just society's obligations are to people who do not
want to be part of the political community, establishing respect
for difference as a fundamental principle of social interaction.
What this respect for difference entails when applied to questions
of the aesthetic value of music is aesthetic pluralism, the book
argues. Improvised jazz, in particular, embodies different values
than those of the Western classical tradition, and must be judged
on its own terms if it is to be respected. Having established the
need for aesthetic pluralism in order to respect the diversity of
musical traditions, the argument turns back to political theory,
and considers what distinct resources improvisation theory-the
theorizing of the social context in which musical improvisation
takes place-has to offer established political philosophy
discourses of deliberative democracy and the politics of
recognition-already themselves grounded in a respect for
difference. This strand of the argument takes up the challenge,
familiar to peace studies, of creative ways to rebuild fractured
civil societies. Throughout all of these intertwined discussions,
various behaviors, practices, and value-commitments are identified
as constituent parts of the "ethics of improvisation" that is
articulated in the final chapter as the strategy through which
individuals can collaboratively build responsive democratic
communities.
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