Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science by Roald Hoffmann (PDF)

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Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and the unrepresentable. How does one depict negative mass, for example, or the folding of a protein that is contagious? Can one capture emergent phenomena as they emerge? Science is continually faced with describing that which is beyond.This book, through contributions from nine prominent scholars, tackles that challenge. The explorations within Beyond the Finite range from the images taken by the Hubble Telescope to David Bohm’s quantum romanticism, from Kant and Burke to a “downward spiraling infinity” of the 21st century sublime, all lucid yet transcendent. Squarely positioned at the interface between science and art, this volume’s chapters capture a remarkable variety of perspectives, with neuroscience, chemistry, astronomy, physics, film, painting and music discussed in relation to the sublime experience, topics surely to peak the interest of academics and students studying the sublime in various disciplines.

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⭐The editors of this book have found a good niche: the interface between science and aesthetics is indeed riding on the crest of a ever more popular inter-disciplinary wave. This is, however, a showcase of how difficult it is to edit an inter-disciplinary book. The overall structure is too fragmented and sometimes you even get the feeling that some authors have copy-pasted their standard article with a few extra ‘sublime’-words thrown in. In order for this kind of book to be able to say something relevant about its subject matter the editing should be more ambitious, labour-intensive and professional.

⭐I chose this book in hopes that it would expand on the idea of the sublime but it actually offer something different and provide many readings to look into. this book isn’t so much about going in depth but more of a survey of the schools of thought on the sublime. a good read if you found Burke and Kant a bit too esoteric. this will provide some context to go back into them later.

⭐Interesting book in which experts from art and science, based on the “Sublime” kantian concept, discussed this topic in an interdisciplinary way.

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