Art and Terror

Félix Duque's Philosophy of Art and Jazz

  • Alessandro Bertinetto Università di Udine/Freie Universität Berlin
Keywords: art, terror, jazz, improvisation, «Unheimlichkeit»

Abstract

This paper has two parts. In the first part, I discuss aspects of Félix Duque’s philosophy of contemporary art. In the second part, I briefly show that Duque’s arguments about art can be adopted to capture cultural traits of jazz as a performative and improvisatory practice.

Published
2011-12-01