Susanne K. Langer: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Susanne Knauth Langer
Born December 20, 1895 • New York City • New York
Died July 17, 1985 (aged 89) • Connecticut
Notable Works “Feeling and Form” • “Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling” • “Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art”
Subjects Of Study semiotics • sign • symbolism • the arts

Santayana
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
Profile portrait of Immanuel Kant facing right, framed by a green Ouroboros serpent forming an oval, with a geometric symbol below the frame.
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder
German philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher
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Jacques Rancière
French philosopher
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Jean Baudrillard
French author and philosopher
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Bernard Bosanquet
British philosopher
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Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
German philosopher and music critic
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Walter Benjamin
German literary critic
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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
German philosopher and educator
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T.E. Hulme
English critic and poet
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Friedrich Theodor von Vischer
German literary critic
Kames, detail of a portrait by David Martin; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Scottish lawyer and philosopher
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Abhinavagupta
Indian philosopher
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Hemsterhuis, Franciscus
Dutch philosopher
Noam Chomsky wearing glasses and a dark sweater, looking slightly to the side during an interview.
Noam Chomsky
American linguist