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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer by Gaikis, Lona;

    Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks;

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    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 24 July 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350294738
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 244x169 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 6 bw illus
    • 700

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    Once an overlooked figure in 20th-century philosophy, Susanne K. Langer has become a prominent thinker among philosophers and artists, particularly because of her development of a new theory of art from symbolic logic.

    This open access book brings together a collection of major thinkers on Langer and elucidates her transdisciplinary connections and insights across philosophy, psychology, literature, aesthetics, history and the arts. Adopting two approaches to Langer's life and philosophy, Part I places her historically, documenting her origins and extensions and acknowledging Langer's relationship to rich, ongoing traditions. Part II situates her work in conversation with current scholarship, expanding her ideas to provide new insights into current discussions about affect, materialism, embodied cognition, virtuality and the new media.

    By recognizing Langer's influences and contribution to contemporary knowledge, this international team of contributors positions her firmly in mainstream theory and asserts Langer's ongoing importance to intellectual histories. Langer's philosophical achievements, emerging from a web of key movements, make her a visionary of her time. For anyone looking to understand Langer's impact and relevance for postmodern sciences and culture studies, here is the place to start.

    The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Figures
    List of Contributors
    Foreword, Randall E. Auxier (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA)
    Preface
    Note on the Cover Artist
    Acknowledgements
    Portrait
    Introduction

    Part I. Placing Susanne K. Langer

    1. Susanne K. Langer And The Harvard School Of Analysis, Sander Verhaegh (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
    2. Models And Images In Susanne K. Langer And The Early Wittgenstein, Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin (King's College London, UK)
    3. Susanne K. Langer, Wittgenstein And The Profundity Of Fairy Tales, Helen Thaventhiran (University of Cambridge, UK)
    4. Susanne K. Langer On Logic As The Study Of Forms And Patterns Of Any Sort, Giulia Felappi (University of Southampton, UK)
    5. The Horizontal, Vertical, And Transversal Mechanics Of Susanne K. Langer's Card-Index System, Iris Van Der Tuin (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
    6. Susanne K. Langer's Foray Into Art As A "Phenomenology Of Feeling", Rolf Lachmann (Independent Scholar, Germany)
    7. Susanne K. Langer's Theory Of Self-Liberation Through Culture, Anne Pollok (Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
    8. The Systematic Position Of Art In Susanne K. Langer's And Ernst Cassirer's Thinking, Christian Grüny (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
    9. The Meaning Of 'Feeling' In Susanne K. Langer's Project Of Mind, Donald Dryden (Duke University, USA)
    10. Psychological Dimensions, Cultural Consequences, And Their Breakings In Susanne K. Langer's Symbolic Mind, Robert E. Innis (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA)
    11. Music As The DNA Of Feeling And Whitehead's Influence On Susanne K. Langer's Philosophy, Lona Gaikis (University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria)


    Part II. Generative Ideas

    12. Susanne K. Langer And Philosophical Biology, Adam Nocek (Arizona State University, USA)
    13. Thinking Non/Humanly With Susanne K. Langer, Eldritch Priest (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
    14. From Aesthetic Frights To The Politics Of Unspeakable Thought With Susanne K. Langer, Brian Massumi (University of Montreal, Canada)
    15. Towards Vitality Semiotics And A New Understanding Of The Conditio Humana In Susanne K. Langer, Martina Sauer (Institute of Image and Cultural Philosophy, Germany)
    16. Virtual Powers In Susanne K. Langer's Theory Of Dance And Its Application In Post-Colonial Hong Kong, Eva Kit Wah Man (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
    17. "Virtual Acts" As A Langerian Approach To Performance Art, Christophe Van Eecke (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium)
    18. Susanne K. Langer, Everyday Aesthetics And Virtual Worlds, Thomas Leddy (San Jose State University, USA)
    Epilogue: "That She Cannot Be Catalogued" Tracing Susanne K. Langer's Fortuna, Carolyn Bergonzo (Poet and Independent Scholar, USA)

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