Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling

by Susanne K. Langer

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, 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, An Essay on Human Feeling splendidly achieves its "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."

Genres: Philosophy

246 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1982

About the author

Susanne Katherina Langer (née Knauth) (December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher of mind and of art, who was influenced by Ernst Cassirer and Alfred North Whitehead. She was one of the first women to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher. Langer is best known for her 1942 book entitled, Philosophy in a New Key. (wikipedia)