Contact Improvisation and the Lived World
Contact Improvisation and the Lived World

Summary/Abstract: “The title of this essay is modeled on Biemel’s “Pop Art and the Lived World” (1972a),1 and I shall follow his lead in other ways as well. Heeding his advice in “Philosophy and Art,” I shall attempt to avoid merely speaking “about” a question, and shall instead let myself be “addressed by it” (1979, 267); as he counsels in Philosophische Analysen zur Kunst der Gegenwart, I shall proceed not by discussing theories of art, but by offering detailed analyses of particular phenomena (1968, 236); and as he indicates in an essay on Holzwege, I shall not be approaching art in terms of mimesis or aesthetic enjoyment (1983, 94), but inquiring into the world opened in the artistic phenomena in question. I shall also borrow Biemel’s procedure of beginning with Auslegung, bringing out the inner structure of the phenomenon, then turning to Deutung, unfolding what is manifested in the work (1968, viii) — bearing in mind that even the initial explication is already guided by a preunderstanding (1968, 236).2 However, I shall not be moving within the framework of the thinking of Being, and shall thus not address the issue of the relation of art and truth (1983, 93–94), the question of art as”[…]

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