[PDF] The Philosophy Of Susanne Langer eBook

Author : Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350030589

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This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century, Susanne Langer. Failure to recognise Langer's seminal philosophical sources has led to frequent misinterpretations and misunderstandings of her unique philosophical thought. Beginning with an overview of Langer's life and education, this study provides a much-needed explanation of how Langer's thinking was shaped by four seminal sources: her mentors Henry Sheffer and Alfred North Whitehead and the European philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Langer's ability to unite seemingly disparate fields such logic, art, and embodied cognition around the notion of symbolic form, places aesthetics not at the margins of philosophy but at its very centre. By locating Langer's work in the broader context of major developments in twentieth-century European and American philosophy, Dengerink Chaplin shows how she was often ahead of her time. Shedding new light on Langer as an American philosopher whose innovative thought crosses the customary boundaries between analytic and continental philosophy, this book confirms why she continues to have relevance today.

Author : Robert E. Innis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253352789

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A thorough account of Langer's philosophical career

Author : Susanne K. Langer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780801816079

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Proposes a theory of evolution that accounts for the development of human intellect from animal mentality.

Author : Langer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486601649

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Famous classic has introduced countless readers to symbolic logic with its thorough and precise exposition. Starts with simple symbols and conventions and concludes with the Boole-Schroeder and Russell-Whitehead systems. No special knowledge of mathematics necessary. "One of the clearest and simplest introductions to a subject which is very much alive." — Mathematics Gazette.

Author : Sandra Lapointe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137408081

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This book offers new perspectives on the history of analytical philosophy, surveying recent scholarship on the philosophical study of mind, language, logic and reality over the course of the last 200 years. Each chapter contributes to a broader engagement with a wider range of figures, topics and disciplines outside of philosophy than has been traditionally associated with the history of analytical philosophy. The book acquaints readers with new aspects of analytical philosophy’s revolutionary past while engaging in a much needed methodological reflection. It questions the meaning associated with talk of 'analytic' philosophy and offers new perspective on its development. It offers original studies on a range of topics – including in the philosophy of language and mind, logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics – and figures whose relevance, when they is not already established as in the case of Russell, Moore and Wittgenstein, are just now beginning to become the topic of mainstream literature: Franz Brentano, William James, Susan Langer as well as the German and British logicians of the nineteenth century.