Alessandro Bertinetto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4345858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Bertinetto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Bertinetto |
| SIGNATURE | BERTINETTO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0296-9291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Practices of Presence: Performing Arts and Philosophical Inquiry
Over the past few decades, performance theory has flourished into a dynamic interdisciplinary discourse, drawing insights from fields such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, and feminism [...]
Aesthetic Habits in Performing Arts
This article explores the connection between habits and the performing arts, arguing that habits are not only fundamental to the practice and appreciation of these arts but also inherently performative in nature. Drawing on insights from various philosophical traditions (including cognitive science, pragmatism, and phenomenology), it examines how habits function within artistic processes as resources for creativity and adaptation. Engaging critic…
Action as Abductive Performance: An Improvisational Model
According to Gilbert Ryle, improvisation is a basic feature of ordinary action. In this paper, we take this idea seriously. Action is improvisation, in that it is situated: It is shaped by attentive responses to environmental circumstances. This is a crucial aspect of agency. However, it is neglected by causal theories of action (Bratman; Mele) and only partially addressed by Thompson’s process-oriented theory. By resorting to Kant’s theory of ju…
Aesthetics of Improvisation: Translated from Italian by Robert T. Valgenti
This essay develops a theory of improvisation as practice of aesthetic sense-making. While considering all arts, references are made to many concrete cases. A topic in vogue since the XX. century, as evidenced by the great philosophers who were interested in it (Ryle, Derrida, Eco among others), improvisation, a felicitous mixture of habit and creativity, norm and freedom, is constitutive of human action. Human practices – including very well-reg…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts
This paper aims at bringing to the fore what it means to consider the phenomenon of improvisation as both meaningful and not governed by any external criteria. Namely, I will assume that improvisation takes on a peculiar, or even “radical,” sense in so far as it is something strictly contingent but not merely accidental. Whether such a conception is possible, under which theoretical conditions and with which (if any) profitable implications are t…
We Make Up the Rules as We Go Along: Improvisation as an Essential Aspect of Human Practices
The article presents the conceptual groundwork for an understanding of the essentially improvisational dimension of human rationality. It aims to clarify how we should think about important concepts pertinent to central aspects of human practices, namely, the concepts of improvisation, normativity, habit, and freedom. In order to understand the sense in which human practices are essentially improvisational, it is first necessary to criticize misc…
We Make Up the Rules as We Go Along: Improvisation as an Essential Aspect of Human Practices
The article presents the conceptual groundwork for an understanding of the essentially improvisational dimension of human rationality. It aims to clarify how we should think about important concepts pertinent to central aspects of human practices, namely, the concepts of improvisation, normativity, habit, and freedom. In order to understand the sense in which human practices are essentially improvisational, it is first necessary to criticize misc…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts
This paper aims at bringing to the fore what it means to consider the phenomenon of improvisation as both meaningful and not governed by any external criteria. Namely, I will assume that improvisation takes on a peculiar, or even “radical,” sense in so far as it is something strictly contingent but not merely accidental. Whether such a conception is possible, under which theoretical conditions and with which (if any) profitable implications are t…
We Make Up the Rules as We Go Along: Improvisation as an Essential Aspect of Human Practices
The article presents the conceptual groundwork for an understanding of the essentially improvisational dimension of human rationality. It aims to clarify how we should think about important concepts pertinent to central aspects of human practices, namely, the concepts of improvisation, normativity, habit, and freedom. In order to understand the sense in which human practices are essentially improvisational, it is first necessary to criticize misc…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts
This paper aims at bringing to the fore what it means to consider the phenomenon of improvisation as both meaningful and not governed by any external criteria. Namely, I will assume that improvisation takes on a peculiar, or even “radical,” sense in so far as it is something strictly contingent but not merely accidental. Whether such a conception is possible, under which theoretical conditions and with which (if any) profitable implications are t…
Aesthetics of Improvisation: Translated from Italian by Robert T. Valgenti
This essay develops a theory of improvisation as practice of aesthetic sense-making. While considering all arts, references are made to many concrete cases. A topic in vogue since the XX. century, as evidenced by the great philosophers who were interested in it (Ryle, Derrida, Eco among others), improvisation, a felicitous mixture of habit and creativity, norm and freedom, is constitutive of human action. Human practices – including very well-reg…
Action as Abductive Performance: An Improvisational Model
According to Gilbert Ryle, improvisation is a basic feature of ordinary action. In this paper, we take this idea seriously. Action is improvisation, in that it is situated: It is shaped by attentive responses to environmental circumstances. This is a crucial aspect of agency. However, it is neglected by causal theories of action (Bratman; Mele) and only partially addressed by Thompson’s process-oriented theory. By resorting to Kant’s theory of ju…
Practices of Presence: Performing Arts and Philosophical Inquiry
Over the past few decades, performance theory has flourished into a dynamic interdisciplinary discourse, drawing insights from fields such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, and feminism [...]
Aesthetic Habits in Performing Arts
This article explores the connection between habits and the performing arts, arguing that habits are not only fundamental to the practice and appreciation of these arts but also inherently performative in nature. Drawing on insights from various philosophical traditions (including cognitive science, pragmatism, and phenomenology), it examines how habits function within artistic processes as resources for creativity and adaptation. Engaging critic…
Art (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Improvisation (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · The arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works)