Susanne Langer

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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.

Works

Books

  • The Cruise of the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales, 1924. Illustrated by Helen Sewall.
  • The Practice of Philosophy, foreword Alfred North Whitehead, New York: Holt, 1930.
  • An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, New York and Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937.
    • Introducción a la lógica simbólica, Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno, 1969. (Spanish)
    • Manṭiq-i sambulīk, trans. Manūchihr Buzurgmihr, Tehran: Shirkat-i Sahāmī-i Intishārāt-i Khvārazmī, 1348 [1970], 332 pp. (Persian)
  • Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art, Harvard University Press, 1942.
    • Nueva clave de la filosofía: un estudio acerca del simbolismo de la razón, del rito y del arte, Jaime Rest and Virginia M. Erhart, Buenos Aires: Sur, 1958, 334 pp. (Spanish)
    • Filosofi i en ny tonart: en undersökning av tänkandets, ritens och konstens symboler, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell/Geber, 1958, 363 pp. (Swedish)
    • Shinboru no tetsugaku, [シンボルの哲学], Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1960, 379 pp. (Japanese)
    • Falsafe ka naya angh, Lahore: Shaikh Ghilam 'Ali, 1962; 2nd ed., 1970. (Urdu)
    • Filozofija u novome ključu: proučavanje simbolike razuma, obreda i umetnosti, trans. Aleksandar I. Spasić, Belgrade: Prosveta, 1967, 429 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
    • Menneske og symbol: en studie i fornuftens, ritualets og kunstens symboler, foreword Svend Møller Kristensen, trans. Christian Koch, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1969, 319 pp. (Danish)
    • Filosofia in una nuova chiave : linguaggio, mito, rito e arte, Rome: Armando, 1972, 415 pp. (Italian)
    • Nowy sens filozofii: rozważania o symbolach myśli, obrzędu i sztuki, trans. Alina Hanna Bogucka, intro. Hanna Buczyńska-Garewicz, Warsaw: Państ. Instytut Wydawniczy, 1976, 426 pp. (Polish)
    • Philosophie auf neuem Wege. Das Symbol im Denken, im Ritus und in der Kunst, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1965, 302 pp; repr., Mittenwald: Mäander, 1979. (German)
    • Filosofische vernieuwing: een studie over de symboliek, trans. A.M. Offermans-van Galen, Utrecht and Antwerpen: Spectrum, 1965, 335 pp. (Dutch)
    • Filosofia em nova chave, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1989, 301 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Filosofiya v novom klyuche [Философия в новом ключе], Moscow: Respublika, 2000. (Russian)
  • Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art, New York: Scribner, 1953.
    • Sentimiento y forma: una teoría del arte desarrollada a partir de una nueva clase de filosofía, trans. Mario Cárdenas and Luis Octavio Hernández, México D.F.: UNAM, 1967, 403 pp. (Spanish)
    • Sentimento e forma, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1965, 469 pp. (Italian)
    • 感情と形式 [Kanjō to keishiki], 2 vols., 1970-71. (Japanese)
    • Sentimento e forma: uma teoria da arte desenvolvida a partir de "Filosofia em nova chave", trans. Ana M.G. Coelho and J. Guinsburg, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1980, 439 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Qing gan yu xing shi [情感与行式], Beijing: Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 1986, 484 pp; Nanjing: Jiangsu ren min chu ban she, 2013, 458 pp. (Chinese)
  • Problems of Art: Ten Philosophical Lectures, New York: Scribner, 1957.
    • Problemi dell'arte : dieci conferenze filosofiche, trans. Maria Attardo Magrini, Milan: Il saggiatore, 1962, 174 pp. (Italian)
    • Los problemas del arte: diez conferencias filosóficas, trans. Enrique Luis Revol, Buenos Aires: Infinito, 1966, 183 pp. (Spanish)
    • Geijutsu to wa nani ka [芸術とは何か], Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1967, iv+228 pp. (Japanese)
    • Yi shu wen ti [艺术问题], Beijing: Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 1983; Nanjing Shi: Nanjing chu ban she, 2006, 188 pp. (Chinese)
    • Yesullon [藝術論], Seoul: Kŭmsŏng Ch'ulp'ansa, 1989, 369 pp. (Korean)
    • Sanat problemleri, trans. A. Feyzi Korur, Istanbul: Mitos Boyut, 2012, 128 pp. (Turkish)
  • editor, Reflections on Art: A Source Book of Writings by Artists, Critics, and Philosophers, Oxford University Press, 1961, xviii+364 pp. TOC.
  • Philosophical Sketches, Johns Hopkins Press, 1962, 190 pp.
    • Esquemas filosóficos, trans. Denise Rivero, Buenos Aires: Editorial Nova, 1971, 190 pp. (Spanish)
    • Ensaios filosóficos, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1971, 161 pp. (Portuguese)
    • Tetsugakuteki sobyo [哲学的素描], 2000, 242 pp. (Japanese)
  • Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, 3 vols., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967, 1972, and 1982.

Translations

  • Ernst Cassirer, Language and Myth, 1946. From Sprache und Mythos, 1925.

Articles

  • "Confusion of Symbols and Confusion of Logical Types", Mind 35, 1926, pp 222–229.
  • "Form and Content: A Study in Paradox", Journal of Philosophy 23, 1926, pp 435–438.
  • "A Logical Study of Verbs", Journal of Philosophy 24, 1927, pp 120–129.
  • "The Treadmill of Systematic Doubt", Journal of Philosophy 26, 1929, pp 379–384.
  • "Facts: The Logical Perspectives of the World", Journal of Philosophy 30, 1933, pp 178–187.
  • "On a Fallacy in ‘Scientific Fatalism’", International Journal of Ethics 46, 1936, pp 473–483.
  • "The Lord of Creation", Fortune 29, January 1944, pp 127–154.
  • "Why Philosophy?", Saturday Evening Post 234, 13 May 1961, pp 34–35, 54, 56.
  • "Henry M. Sheffer", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25, 1964, pp 305–307.

Literature

  • Fred Blum, Susanne Langer's Music Aesthetics, 1954.
  • Morris Weitz, "Symbolism and Art", Review of Metaphysics 7 (1954).
  • Beverly Wayne Shirbroun, Music and Human Feeling in Susanne Langer's Aesthetic Theory, 1964.
  • Rita LaPlante Raffman, Susanne Langer's Theory of Music as Symbol of Feeling: A Critique, 1978
  • R.K. Ghosh, Aesthetric Theory and Art: A Study in Susanne K. Langer, 1979.
  • Rolf Lachmann, Susanne K. Langer. Die lebendige Form menschlichen Fühlens und Verstehens, Munich: Fink, 2000. (German)
  • William Schultz, Cassirer and Langer on Myth: An Introduction, 2000.
  • Robert E. Innis, Susanne Langer in Focus: The Symbolic Mind, Indiana University Press, 2008, 296 pp.

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