Langer, Susanne Knauth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...became an emeritus professor. A student of Alfred North Whitehead, she wrote extensively on aesthetics and other subjects...Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art (1942), she attempted to give art the claim to meaning that science was given through Whiteheads analysis of symbolic modes. She made an important distinction...