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It is not the case that Analyses of improvisational freedom must account for social and historical constraints
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Phenomenological accounts of improvisation (Merleau-Ponty, Sheets-Johnstone) locate freedom in embodied perception prior to social inscription.
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Constraints internalized through habitus can constitute enabling conditions for expression, not merely limitations on a pre-social freedom.
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Sartrean radical freedom holds that consciousness always transcends facticity, making situational constraints objects of freedom rather than its limits.
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If social conditions wholly constituted improvisational possibility, genuine novelty and transgression of inherited forms would be conceptually incoherent.
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Social and historical conditions shape the possibility of freedom
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Improvisational freedom as traditionally conceived ignores these constraining conditions
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