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苏珊·K. 朗格

1895–1985

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制造符号是人类的基本活动，而艺术是一种符号，表达文字所无法表达的情感的形态。

定位

实用主义与美国哲学 · 北美 · 美学, 语言, 心灵与意识

美国的艺术与心灵哲学家：创造符号是人类的基本活动；在论述性语言之外，艺术是“呈现性的”符号，它表达情感的形式。

核心思想

  • 符号转化
  • 呈现性符号与论述性符号
  • 艺术作为情感的形式

老师: 阿尔弗雷德·诺思·怀特海

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影响

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  • 阿尔弗雷德·诺思·怀特海 师从

    师从

    At Radcliffe Langer studied logic with Henry M. Sheffer and with Whitehead, attending the lectures that became Process and Reality (1929); Whitehead supervised her doctoral thesis (1926) and wrote the introduction to her first book, The Practice of Philosophy (1930). IEP “Langer, Susanne K.”

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    阿尔弗雷德·诺思·怀特海 › 1861–1947

  • 恩斯特·卡西尔

    受其影响

    Langer took from Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms the idea of humans as symbol-making animals (Philosophy in a New Key, 1942) and translated his Language and Myth (1946). S. K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key (1942); E. Cassirer, Language and Myth, tr. S. K. Langer (1946)

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    恩斯特·卡西尔 › 1874–1945

  • 路德维希·维特根斯坦

    受其影响

    Langer modelled discursive symbolism on the Tractatus’ picture theory, then argued that art and myth are ‘presentational’ symbols beyond its limits (Philosophy in a New Key, 1942). S. K. Langer, The Practice of Philosophy (1930); Philosophy in a New Key (1942); L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921/22)

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    路德维希·维特根斯坦 › 1889–1951

作品

  • 1942哲学新解

    符号化的需要是人的基本需要：神话、仪式和音乐是呈现性的形式，而不是失败的语言。

  • 1953情感与形式

    一种艺术理论：每种艺术都创造一种“虚幻的”形式——空间、时间、力——来呈现情感的生命。

立场

Langer took from Cassirer the idea that humans are symbol-making animals and from Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” the thought that language pictures facts – and then asked what lies beyond the limits of language. Discursive symbolism, the language of propositions and science, is only one kind. Myth, ritual, dream and above all art are “presentational” symbols: they present forms of feeling all at once, as a picture does, rather than piece by piece. Music, she argued, is not an expression of the composer’s emotions but a symbol of the morphology of feeling – it sounds the way feelings go. Each art, she later argued, creates its own virtual dimension: painting space, music time, dance power.

生平与背景

Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985), born in New York to German parents, studied at Radcliffe College under Alfred North Whitehead and taught there and at other colleges for decades without a tenured post until Connecticut College appointed her in 1954. “Philosophy in a New Key” was a bestseller in paperback. Her last years went to the three-volume “Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling”, which she finished almost blind.

其他主要作品

  • Philosophy in a New Key (1942)
  • Feeling and Form (1953)
  • Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (3 vols., 1967–1982)

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