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Beyond the Finite Roald Hoffmann (Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Cornell University)

Beyond the Finite By Roald Hoffmann (Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Cornell University)

Summary

This book, through essays by nine leading scholars with diverse academic backgrounds, explores the sublime's relationship to art and science.

Beyond the Finite Summary

Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science by Roald Hoffmann (Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Cornell University)

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.

About Roald Hoffmann (Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Cornell University)

Roald Hoffmann is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Letters at Cornell University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981 for his work concerning the course of chemical reactions. Iain Boyd White is Professor of Architectural History at The University of Edinburgh and Director of the Visual Arts Research Institute Edinburgh (VARIE). His current research interests include visual cognition in the arts and sciences, and translation as cultural exchange.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Sublime ; 2. Affective Foundations of Creativity, Language, Music and Mental Life: In Search of the Biology of the Soul ; 3. The Non-Conscious Sublime: A Small Reflection ; 4. Pretty Sublime ; 5. Against the Sublime ; 6. Neuroscience and the Sublime in Art and Science ; 7. Quantum Romanticism: The Aesthetics of the Sublime in David Bohm's Philosophy of Physics ; 8. Disobedient Machines: Animation and Autonomy ; 9. On the Sublime in Science

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9780199737697
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Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science by Roald Hoffmann (Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Le, Cornell University)
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