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Book Reviews / Nuncius 26 (2011) 391–458 451 Elena Agazzi, Enrico Giannetto, Franco Giudice (eds.), Representing Light across Arts and Sciences: Theories and Practices (Goettingen: V&R unipress, 2010). As Hans Blumenberg writes in the introductory paragraphs of his essay on the complex history of the metaphor of light: ‘In their expressive power and subtle capacity to change, metaphors of light are incomparable’ (see Hans Blumenberg, Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation , in: Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision , David Michael Levin (ed.), Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1993, p. 31). That is exactly the point of departure for this volume of essays, each of which deals with a diffferent aspect of the metaphors of light across the history of art and science. The main interest of the volume editors, as is apparent from their introduction, is the ‘inescapable entanglement between literature and science.’ (p. 7) Furthermore, they want to look at this entanglement from a number of dif- ferent disciplinary perspectives. The concept of light serves as an archetype and absolute metaphor, crossing all fijields of knowledge, and thus offfering a common ground from which
Nuncius (successor of "Annali") – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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