Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science

by Iain Boyd Whyte and Roald Hoffmann

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019973769X

ISBN13:9780199737697

Release Date:October 2011

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography Essays & Commentary Humanities Language Arts Linguistics Physics Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Words, Language & Grammar

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