Art and Terror

Félix Duque's Philosophy of Art and Jazz

Authors

  • Alessandro Bertinetto Università di Udine/Freie Universität Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/2036-542X/7575

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