Susanne Langer
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"The most obvious and naive reading of this "language" is the onomatopoetic one, the recognition of natural sounds in musical effects. This, as everybody knows, is the basis of "program music," which deliberately imitates the clatter and cries of the market place, hoof-beats, clanging hammers, running brooks, nightingales and bells and the inevitable cuckoo. Such "sound-painting" is by no means modern; it goes back as far as the thirteenth century, when the cuckoo's note was introduced as a theme in the musical setting of "Summer is acumen in."--Philosophy in a New Key |
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Susanne Katherina Langer (née Knauth) (December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher of mind and of art, who was influenced by Ernst Cassirer and Alfred North Whitehead. She was one of the first women to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher. Langer is best known for her 1942 book entitled, Philosophy in a New Key.
Selected publications
Books
- The Cruise of the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales (1924 illustrated by Helen Sewall)
- The Practice of Philosophy (1930, foreword by Alfred North Whitehead)
- An Introduction to Symbolic Logic (1937), Template:ISBN
- Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art (1942), Template:ISBN
- Language and Myth (1946), translator, from Sprache und Mythos (1925) by Ernst Cassirer, Template:ISBN
- Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (1953)
- Problems of Art: Ten Philosophical Lectures, 1957
- Reflections on Art (1961) (editor)
- Philosophical Sketches (1962), Template:ISBN
- Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, three volumes (1967, 1972, and 1982)
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