[audiobook] A Wished-For Song: A Portrait of Jeff Buckley by Merri Cyr in Arts-Photography

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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 Bohms 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 volumes 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.