The European Commission

Neill Nugent, Mark Rhinard

"Once an overlooked figure in 20th-century philosophy, Susanne K. Langer has become a prominent figure among philosophers and artists, particularly because of her development of a new theory of art from symbolic logic. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer unites all major scholars on Langer in one collection and elucidates her transdisciplinary connections and insights across philosophy, psychology, literature, aesthetics, history, architecture and other arts. Adopting two approaches to Langer's life and philosophy, Part I places her historically, documenting her origins and extensions and acknowledging Langer's relationship to rich, ongoing traditions. Part II situates her work in conversation with current scholarship, expanding her ideas to provide new insights into current discussions about affect, materialism, embodied cognition, virtuality and the new media. By...