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Author : Robert E. Innis
Release : 2009
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 789/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Susanne Langer in Focus by : Robert E. Innis
Download or read book Susanne Langer in Focus written by Robert E. Innis. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough account of Langer's philosophical career
Author : Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Release : 2019-10-17
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Susanne Langer by : Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Download or read book The Philosophy of Susanne Langer written by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin. This book was released on 2019-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century, Susanne Langer. Failure to recognise Langer's seminal philosophical sources has led to frequent misinterpretations and misunderstandings of her unique philosophical thought. Beginning with an overview of Langer's life and education, this study provides a much-needed explanation of how Langer's thinking was shaped by four seminal sources: her mentors Henry Sheffer and Alfred North Whitehead and the European philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Langer's ability to unite seemingly disparate fields such logic, art, and embodied cognition around the notion of symbolic form, places aesthetics not at the margins of philosophy but at its very centre. By locating Langer's work in the broader context of major developments in twentieth-century European and American philosophy, Dengerink Chaplin shows how she was often ahead of her time. Shedding new light on Langer as an American philosopher whose innovative thought crosses the customary boundaries between analytic and continental philosophy, this book confirms why she continues to have relevance today.
Author : Susanne K. Langer
Release : 1967
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 079/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mind by : Susanne K. Langer
Download or read book Mind written by Susanne K. Langer. This book was released on 1967. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes a theory of evolution that accounts for the development of human intellect from animal mentality.
Author : Joaquim Braga
Release : 2019-09-05
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 511/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Conceiving Virtuality: From Art To Technology by : Joaquim Braga
Download or read book Conceiving Virtuality: From Art To Technology written by Joaquim Braga. This book was released on 2019-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new theoretical approaches to the subject of virtuality. All chapters reflect the importance of extending the analysis of the concept of “the virtual” to areas of knowledge that, until today, have not been fully included in its philosophical foundations. The respective chapters share new insights on art, media, psychic systems and technology, while also presenting new ways of articulating the concept of the virtual with regard to the main premises of Western thought. Given its thematic scope, this book is intended not only for a philosophical audience, but also for all scientists who have turned to the humanities in search of answers to their questions.
Author : Yoni Van Den Eede
Release : 2019-12-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Beauty of Detours by : Yoni Van Den Eede
Download or read book The Beauty of Detours written by Yoni Van Den Eede. This book was released on 2019-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes an innovative, holistic understanding of technology. The Beauty of Detours proposes a new way of understanding and defining technology by reading systems thinker Gregory Bateson in the framework of contemporary philosophy of technology. Although “technology” was not an explicit focus of Bateson’s oeuvre, Yoni Van Den Eede shows that his thought is permeated with insights directly relevant to contemporary technological concerns. This book provides a systematic reading of Bateson that reveals these under-investigated elements of his thought. It also critiques the field of philosophy of technology for still reifying “technology” too much despite its attempt to de-reify it, arguing instead that it should incorporate Bateson’s insights and focus more on processes of human knowing. Sketching a Batesonian philosophy of technology, Van Den Eede calls for greater attentiveness to the purpose of technology and its role in our lives. “This book offers a thorough and well-researched dive into Bateson’s thinking on purpose, instrumentalism, technology, and epistemology. It is an important contribution to the discourse on AI and on the rapid development of the tech sector. Philosophically the book tackles difficult systemic questions about technology and addresses them at a much more sophisticated level than most books of its kind.” — Nora Bateson, The International Bateson Institute
