
Mind
An Essay on Human Feeling
Susanne K. Langer(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 26. September 1984
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Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-8018-2511-8 (ISBN)
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Description
Volume III complete the publication of Susanne Langer's monumental treatise on the rise and development of mind-an exclusively human phenomenon- by evolution from animal intelligence to intellectual intuition. More than two decades in the making, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling is the crowning achievement of one of the most seminal and refreshing philosophers of our time.
The conlusion of the Essay, originally intended to deal with epistemology and metaphysics, has been abrogated by the author's encroaching blindness. This curtailment notwithstanding, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling splendidly achieves its purpose: "to suggest ideas which other people may be able to use in their own work, anywhere and everywhere in the great domain of philosophical thought."
The conlusion of the Essay, originally intended to deal with epistemology and metaphysics, has been abrogated by the author's encroaching blindness. This curtailment notwithstanding, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling splendidly achieves its purpose: "to suggest ideas which other people may be able to use in their own work, anywhere and everywhere in the great domain of philosophical thought."
Reviews / Votes
Langer has brought to light ideas of astonishing depth, exactness, power and reach... The emanations may well leave their trace on all of us. Washington Post A great and beautiful work of genius... A conceptual scheme of such radiance that no one who wishes to think deeply about mentality and behavior will be able to do without it. Chicago Daily News, reviewing the complete editionMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
434 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-2511-8 (9780801825118)
DOI
10.56021/9780801827563
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10/1988
Johns Hopkins University Press
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11/1982
Johns Hopkins University Press
€48.47
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Person
Susanne Langer is professor emeritus of philosophy and currently research scholar at Connecticut College. She is the author of Philosophy in a New Key, Feeling and Form, and Philosophical Sketches.
Content
Acknowledgments, Volume III
List of Illustrations
Part V. The Moral Structure
Chapter 19. The Spirit-World
Chapter 20. The Dream of Power
Chapter 21. Dream's Ending: The Tragic Vision
Chapter 22. The Ethnic Balance
Chapter 23. The Breaking
Part VI. Mathematics and the Reign of Science
Foreword
Chapter 24. The Open Ambient
Bibliography
Indexes
List of Illustrations
Part V. The Moral Structure
Chapter 19. The Spirit-World
Chapter 20. The Dream of Power
Chapter 21. Dream's Ending: The Tragic Vision
Chapter 22. The Ethnic Balance
Chapter 23. The Breaking
Part VI. Mathematics and the Reign of Science
Foreword
Chapter 24. The Open Ambient
Bibliography
Indexes