Beyond the finite [electronic resource] : the sublime in art and science / edited by Roald Hoffmann and Iain Boyd Whyte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoffmann, Roald.

Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Aesthetics.

Science.

Sublime, The, in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; 1 The Sublime: An Introduction; 2 Affective Foundations of Creativity, Language, Music, and Mental Life: In Search of the Biology of the Soul; 3 Still Deeper: The Nonconscious Sublime; or, The Art and Science of Submergence; 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; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-26969-4

9786613269690

0-19-975056-4

OCLC:

754582222