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Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling
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Susanne K. Langer's Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling is a three-volume work that explores the origin and development of the mind. Langer, an American philosopher and educator, also wrote extensively on linguistic analysis and aesthetics. In her earlier work, Philosophy in a New Key, she distinguished between the nondiscursive symbols of art and the discursive symbols of scientific language, suggesting that art symbolizes direct, intuitive knowledge of life patterns that ordinary language cannot convey. Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling delves deeper into the nature of feeling and its role in shaping the mind. The philosophy of mind, in general, grapples with fundamental questions about mental phenomena such as thought, feeling, perception, and consciousness.123

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