Susanne Langer in focus

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"Susanne Langer was one of American philosophy's most disctinctive thinkers. Her philosophy was a deep exploration of human life as a continuous process of meaning-making through symbolic forms. Here, [author] brings readers closer to Langer's precise and nuanced account of the symbolic mind. [author] shows how Langer's though spans the sciences, aesthetics, psychology, religion, education, and music, and where it touches on concerns that were brought forward by American pragmatists, such as John Dewey and William James. [author] reveals Langer's intense focus on making meaning clear as [author] covers her entire philosophical career. Highlighting what is of permanent value to American philosophy in Langer's work, [author] determines exactly what her positions were and why she proposed them."--Back cover.