| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the law of the extempore; 2 The rise and reform of the New York City cabaret laws; 3 Deconstructive legal improvisation; The aporia of singularity; The aporia of originality; The aporia of performative immediacy; The aporia of the extempore; 4 The 'wildness' of jazz improvisation; 'Wild' origins; Bebop's sonic and social wildness; lmprovisation, wildness, invention; 5 Demystifying improvisation; Improvisation and the 'jazz form'; Tradition of improvisation; Collective individuality |
|
6 The structure-freedom paradox in lawThe freedom of precedent; The structure of discretion; The NYC 'police cards' revisited; 7 Justice as improvisation; The necessity of improvisation's impossibility; Ensemble improvisations: democracy and community; The ethical force of improvisation; improvisation as resistant critique; Improvisioning; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses around improvisation often imprison it in a quasi-ethical relationship with the authentic, singular 'other'. The same can be said of justice. This book interrogates this relationship by highlighting the parallels between the aporetic conception of justice advanced by the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the nuanced approach to improvisation pursued by musicians and theorists alike in the new and emerging int |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- New York (State) -- New York
|
|
LAW -- Essays.
|
|
LAW -- General Practice.
|
|
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
|
|
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
|
|
LAW -- Practical Guides.
|
|
LAW -- Reference.
|
|
Law
|
|
New York (State) -- New York
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781135102784 |
|
1135102783 |
|
