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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : : International Book Distributors | : : 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New DelhiPublication details: , Bloomington : Indiana University Press , ©2009Description: xvi, 278 pages : 24cmISBN:
  • 9780253220530
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 191 INN
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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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

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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