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Per una logica dell’improvvisazione musicale. Riflessioni sul rapporto tra originale ed esemplare nell’estetica di Pareyson.
Get PDFThis essay aims at clarifying the relation between the notions of formativity and improvisation, with particular attention to musical practices. Firstly, I will focus on originality and exemplarity, then I will briefly deepen three themes of particular interest faced by Pareyson’s philosophy of art: 1) the unforeseen; 2) the interpretation; 3) the cue or sketch. My purpose is to suggest some adjustments to the notion of formativity, in order to outline the essential features of a logic of musical improvisation.
 
Riflessioni al margine della traduzione filosofica dell’Estetica di Luigi Pareyson in spagnolo: tra formatività, improvvisazione e sistema.
Get PDFThe here discussed topic was inspired by the work of translation to Spanish (Xorki, 2014) of Luigi Pareyson’s Estetica. Teoria della formatività (Edizioni di Filosofia, 1954). The paper offers a reflection on the way in which improvisation, formativity, and system have played a role in the translation work. The main idea is the essentiality of congeniality for the activity of translation: only if you have captured the spirit and the sense of the text, having penetrated its sense, you are able to translate it to another language. In the case of philosophical translation, the translation of philosophical terms and, to a greater extent, of philosophical metaphors, requires a phase of understanding that goes beyond the understanding of the linguistics components and requires also an authentic interpretation of the meaning of the text. In a second phase, terms which have been chosen initially may not collect all the not dispensable nuances of the original: this is time then for improvisation, i.e., for “testing” and “trying” with terms that at first may not be the most logical and that however “work”, offering in the new edition of the book the nuance and meaning that are closer to the original text. I indicate several examples to illustrate this procedure: “spunto”, “tentare”, “riuscita”, “irrigidire”. The re-reading of the work after the election of such terms, shows whether the new text conveys the philosophical content and style of the original one as well as its systematic nature.
 
Alcune norme per un’anarchia della lingua: i manifesti d’improvvisazione del sottosuolo letterario russo
Get PDFIn this essay I will analyze some literary manifestos written within important artistic movements which developed in Russian literary underground context after the 1960s, as a reaction to the ideological absolutism pursued by the Soviet dictatorship. In particular, I will focus on the contrast, the fine boundary, and the connection between the strict form of the literary manifesto, made by a series of rules, and the experimental spontaneity and chaos enunciated by the manifestos themselves.
 
Around the Speculative Origins of Improvisation: Between Aristotle and Epicurus.
Get PDFIn this essay it will be argued that Aristotle took a clear position in the modern debate about what the so-called “sudden” is. Even though rather rarely, the speculative problem is expounded by the Stagirite especially in Rhetoric, using the strange word αὐτοκάβδαλος, which will be analysed for the first time. Moreover, the very reconstruction of the question is connected to the development of the epicurean doctrine of clinamen as sudden atomic motion
Improvvisa azione. Come può un agire improvviso essere razionale?
Get PDFTo improvise means to be prepared for the unexpected, but since the unexpected is unforeseeable, we cannot be (fully) prepared. What is that status of this kind of knowledge? In answering the following question it is tempting to place improvisation within a range of unexplainable actions: something we may admire but cannot rationality clarify. In this article I will argue against such a view and, by analyzing cases of improvisation in jazz and in Argentinian tango, will underline two aspects of the rationality of the improvised conduct 1 the discipline required to acquire the improvisational habitus 2. The ability to exploit contextual affordances to generate coherent lines of improvisation. I will conclude that improvisation displays a form of rationality, albeit a form different from the instrumental rationality discussed in rational choice theory
Contingenza della necessità e necessità della contingenza Ragione, sistema e libertà in Meillassoux e Hegel
Get PDFAim of this paper is to investigate contingency and totality as the ontological conditions of possibility of improvisation. Through a critical analysis of Quentin Meillassoux\u27s argument about the necessity of contingency and the impossibility of totality, I will try to show that Hegel\u27s logic is actually able to show some limits of Meillassoux\u27s theory, and to prove that totality is also necessary in order to properly think improvisation
Liberazione della vita
Get PDFPhilosophy and music can achieve the same thing by different means. This paper considers three types of improvisation (on a harmonic structure [jazz], free, and “deep listening”) as steps in an investigation on freedom in musical improvisation, as well as on its potential liberation of life. As an alternative to the well-known concepts of “rapid” or “instant composing”, here musical improvisation is conceived of as the production of a present – in which life is present to itself – through composition-for-improvisation and as a kind of poetic work designed to give one a “voice” of one’s own
Blumenberg. The Reason of the Myth
Get PDFMyth is not a way to go back to the origins, it has rather got its own function within the task that men carry out in receiving history. Such function also includes a continuous mythicization in order to set a distance from reality’s absolutism. Myth has its own proper sense, which is not in opposition to the function of the logos. It is rather a principle of the constitution of meaning in the finitude of existence
The System as aForm of Freedom in Hegel\u27s Philosophy. (Rationality and Improvisation)
Get PDFThis paper is aimed at clarifying the connection between two notions that are inherently related in Hegel\u27s philosophy, namely system and freedom. I will show how these two notions are mutually supportive, that is to say, they imply one another. I believe this dynamic can shed light on the relationship between rationality and improvisation. More specifically, through the discussion of the relationship between freedom and system, that is, the relationship between freedom and reason, I will investigate the peculiar form of rationality that is active in the practice of conscious improvisation. Moreover, I will explore the inherent necessity enlivening and constituting the experience of freedom that is embodied in this practice
The Improvisational Situation
Get PDFSome manuscripts of Maurice Merleau-Ponty are the core of the investigation about the improvisation pursued in this essay, an investigation within the domain of the philosophical interrogation about music. Merleau-Ponty’s manuscripts are brought into contact with Marcel Proust’s lectures with the aim of going over the construction of the “concept of improvisation” and of reflecting on the following questions: in the experience of improvisation, is just as necessary to recognize the emotional profile as the cognitive profile? What place does the improvisation occupy in musical experience