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Langer, Susanne Knauth 1895-1985, philosopher

Susanne Katherina Knauth was born in New York, New York, on December 20, 1895. She studied with Alfred North Whitehead at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and, after graduate study at Harvard University and at the University of Vienna, received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1926. From 1927 to

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Langer, Susanne Knauth 1895-1985, philosopher

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    1. Langer, Susanne Knauth (1895-1985), philosopher Art as Symbolic Expression

    2. Susanne Katherina Knauth was born in New York, New York, on December 20, 1895. She studied with Alfred North Whitehead at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and, after graduate study at Harvard University and at the University of Vienna, received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1926. From 1927 to 1942 she was a tutor in philosophy and remained until 1942, the year of her divorce from the historian William L. Langer, whom she had married in September 1921. She lectured in philosophy at Columbia University, New York City, from 1945 to 1950, and from 1954 to 1961 (after 1961, emerita) she was a professor of philosophy at Connecticut College in New London.

    3. In her best-known book, Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art (1942), she attempted to give art the claim to meaning that science was given through Whitehead's analysis of symbolic modes.

    4. Distinguishing nondiscursive symbols of art from discursive symbols of scientific language in Feeling and Form (1953), she submitted that art, especially music, is a highly articulated form of expression symbolizing direct or intuitive knowledge of life patterns--e.g., feeling, motion, and emotion--which ordinary language is unable to convey.

    5. In the three-volume work Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967, 1972, and 1982), Langer attempted to trace the origin and development of the mind. She died on July 17, 1985, at her home in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

    6. Susanne Langer ?????? ???????????? Art is the creation of form symbolic of human feeling. FF, p.40 ?????????

    7. "Language, in its literal capacity, is a stiff and conventional medium, unadapted to the expression of genuinely new ideas, which usually have to break in upon the mind through some great and bewildering metaphor." – Susanne Langer Philosophy in a New Key ??,??????,??????????,????????????,??????????????????????????,??????,??????????,????????????,????????????????????????

    8. Symbolic (non-verbal) communication: The essence of art is the communication of important ideas and other knowledge through symbolic (non-verbal) languages. Good art communicates its meaning effectively in this non-verbal language. -Susanne Langer, Ernst Cassirer, Nelson Goodman

    9. ?? – discursive; presentational A symbol is any device whereby we are enable to make an abstraction. FF, p.xi -Susanne Langer

    10. Music is a tonal analogue of emotive FF, 27 -Susanne Langer

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