Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling

Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling

by Susanne K. Langer
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling

Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling

by Susanne K. Langer
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Overview

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."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801825118
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 08/01/1984
Series: Mind Series , #3
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Ackowledgments, Volume II
List of Illustrations
Chapter 12. On Repertoire and Instinct
Chapter 13. Animal Acts and Ambients
Chapter 14. On Animal Values
Chapter 15. Interpretations
CHapter 16. The Specialization of Man
Chapter 17. Symbols and the Evolution of Mind
Chapter 18. Symbols and the Human World
Bibliography
Index

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