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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adrienne Dengerink ChaplinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.735kg ISBN: 9781350030558ISBN 10: 1350030554 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 17 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: CONTOURS 1. Life and Work 2. European Philosophy in America 3. Philosophy and Women PART II: SOURCES 4. Henry M. Sheffer: Logical Form 5. Ernst Cassirer: Symbolic Form 6. Alfred N. Whitehead: Organic Form 7. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Expressive Form PART III: CONTRIBUTIONS 8. The Logic of Signs and Symbols 9. Art as the Form of Feeling 10. Mind as Embodied Meaning Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsNo matter how novel a new philosophical framework is or appears to be, it has antecedents and roots that influence and nourish it and without which it would not be possible to understand it. With this as her guiding thread, Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin has produced an insightful and indispensable account of the genesis and structure of Susanne Langer's lifelong researches on the symbolic processes and structures that create the meanings we live by. * Robert E. Innis, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA * Early in my career as a philosopher of art I dipped into Susanne Langer's writings on art. I thought I understood them. Reading Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin's book on Langer has shown me that I understood very little. The depth, the subtlety, passed me by. And of the extraordinary breadth of her philosophy in general, I knew nothing. What an eye-opener this deeply researched book has been for me -- and will be for many others. This is a Langer we knew not! * Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University, USA * No matter how novel a new philosophical framework is or appears to be, it has antecedents and roots that influence and nourish it and without which it would not be possible to understand it. With this as her guiding thread, Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin has produced an insightful and indispensable account of the genesis and structure of Susanne Langer's lifelong researches on the symbolic processes and structures that create the meanings we live by. * Robert E. Innis * Author InformationAdrienne Dengerink Chaplin is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |