Susanne Katherina Langer (née Knauth) (1895-1985) was an American philosopher of art, a follower of Ernst Cassirer. She is best known for her 1942 book Philosophy in a New Key.

She was born in Manhattan. She studied at Radcliffe College, and completed a Harvard University doctorate in 1926. She taught at Radcliffe, Wellesley College, Smith College, and Columbia University.

From 1952 to 1962 she was professor of philosophy at Connecticut College.

Works

• The Cruise of the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales (1924)
• The Practice of Philosophy (1930)
• An Introduction to Symbolic Logic (1937)
• Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art (1942)
• Language and Myth (1946), translator, from Sprache und Mythos (1925) by Ernst Cassirer

• Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (1953).
• Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967/82) three volumes

Reference

• Cassirer and Langer on Myth: An Introduction (2000) William Schultz

External links

• Susanne Langer's Theory at Minnesota State University
• Susan Langer on the aesthethics of film as excerpted from Feeling and Form (1953)

Philosophers

Susanne K. Langer