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Mind

An Essay on Human Feeling

Susanne K. Langer

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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...

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."

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Langer has brought to light ideas of astonishing depth, exactness, power and reach... The emanations may well leave their trace on all of us.

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.

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5.5
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8.5
Pages
264
ISBN
9780801825118
Table of Contents

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

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

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Susanne K. Langer

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, Philosophical Sketches, and Mind:An Essay on Human Feeling, volumes 1-3.