The philosophy of jazz as transcribed by Michael Johnson
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2004
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Haverford College. Department of Philosophy
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What has been said about jazz in philosophy--and there has been precious little--is largely reactive, which is to say dismissive or polemical. Given this bias and the dearth of writings in general, it isn't surprising that nobody has developed an adequate account of the project of jazz from a philosophical perspective. What is surprising, however, especially considering the state of jazz in philosophy, is that outside the philosophical world--in literary criticism and musicology, for example--writings about jazz are numerous and oftentimes philosophical. I write the following paragraphs with an eye to this unusual situation. It is my intention to approach jazz as the literary critic and musicologist have done, i.e., creatively, but to do so with a certain reflexivity. In so doing, I hope to reveal something philosophical about jazz.