Susanne K. Langer
Born
in The United States
December 20, 1895
Died
July 17, 1985
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Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
34 editions
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1942
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Problems of Art
14 editions
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published
1957
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An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, 3rd Edition
5 editions
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published
1967
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Philosophical Sketches
14 editions
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published
1962
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Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (Volume II)
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Reflections on Art
13 editions
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published
1961
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The Cruise of the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales: The Wonderful Tale of Nikko; Peter Dwarf; The Crystal Bowl; The Merciless Tsar
11 editions
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published
1924
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Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (Volume I)
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Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (Volume III)
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The Practice of Philosophy
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1930
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“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking. The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical, tinged with affect, tinged with bodily rhythm, tinged with dream, but concerned with a wealth of formulations for its wealth of wordless knowledge, its whole knowledge of emotional and organic experience, of vital impulse, balance, conflict, the ways of living and dying and feeling.”
― Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
― Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
“Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more.
Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.”
― Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art: Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art
Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.”
― Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art: Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art