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Zusatztext ?a theoretically nuanced an historically grounded book! remarkable not only for its level of lucidity and insight into eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century aesthetics and literature! but for its commitment to thinking through the paradoxes and complexities of aesthetic practices that are still flourishing in the twenty-first century. Informationen zum Autor Edgar Landgraf is Associate Professor of German in the Department of German! Russian! and East Asian Languages at Bowling Green State University! USA. Traces how the ideals that led improvisation to be banned from "high art" in the eighteenth century enabled the inventive reintegration of improvisation into modernism. Zusammenfassung Traces how the ideals that led improvisation to be banned from "high art" in the eighteenth century enabled the inventive reintegration of improvisation into modernism. This book also investigates how the problem of "planning" art receives a different treatment in German Romanticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Conceptualizing Improvisation1. Performance! Inventiveness and Improvisation: Theoretical Contentions1.1 Derrida's Inventiveness1.2 Calculating Incalculability: The Neocybernetic Alternative1.3 From Iteration to Improvisation2. Indescribability! Perfection! Unpredictability: Improvisation and Aesthetic Autonomy2.1 Instrumentalizing Improvisation? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe2.2 Improvisation and Aesthetic Autonomy2.3 Improvisation and Aesthetic Perfection: Karl Philipp Moritz2.4 Improvisation and the Artist-Genius3. Staged Improvisation: The Generative Principles of Romantic Irony3.1 Reframing the Space of the Theater3.2 Staged Improvisation3.3 Romantic Principles of Artistic Production3.4 Social Bearings4. Improvisation! Agency! Autonomy. Heinrich von Kleist and the Modern Predicament4.1 Facilitating Prohibitions4.2 Improvisation as Political Practice4.3 The Incalculability of Calculation4.4 Kleist's Pedagogical ProgramConclusion: Experiencing Improvisation as ArtWorks Cited ...
