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Author Innis, Robert E.

Title Susanne Langer in focus : the symbolic mind / Robert E. Innis.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series American philosophy
American philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The roots of Langer's philosophical project : on the "logic" of meaning -- Symbolic transformation : philosophy's new key -- Meaning after language : ritual, myth, and art -- Framing the art symbol : forms of feeling -- Art forms : the logic of primary illusions -- The mind of feeling -- From acts to symbolization -- The symbolic animal -- Placing Langer's philosophical project.
Summary Susanne Langer (1895 -- 1985) was one of American philosophy's most distinctive thinkers. Her philosophy was a deep exploration of human life as a continuous process of meaning-making through symbolic forms. Here, Robert E. Innis brings readers closer to Langer's precise and nuanced account of the symbolic mind. Innis shows how Langer's thought spans the sciences, aesthetics, psychology, religion, education, and music, and where it touches on concerns that were brought forward by American pragmatists such.
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Subject Langer, Susanne K. (Susanne Katherina Knauth), 1895-1985.
Langer, Susanne K. (Susanne Katherina Knauth), 1895-1985.
Philosophy, American -- 20th century.
Philosophy, American.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Art -- United States -- Philosophy -- 20th century.
Art.
United States.
Philosophy.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Innis, Robert E. Susanne Langer in focus. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009 9780253352781 0253352789 (DLC) 2008029698 (OCoLC)234234083
ISBN 9780253002716
0253002710
9780253352781
0253352789
9780253220530
025322053X