A forma e o infinito, de Diderot a Baudelaire

Abstract

Baudelaire’s notion of infinity refers to experience’s propensity to intensify itself, that is, to alter and transform itself in itself through the mediation of form. From there I intend to think about the importance of the Baudelairian infinity as a means to discuss the relationship between experience and the aesthetical form, and the way the latter enacts its own historicity. In the paper, the Baudelairian infinity is contrasted with Diderot’s reflection on aesthetics.