[New Entry by Juliet Floyd on May 21, 2026.]
Susanne K. Langer (born Susanne Katherina Knauth, 1895 - 1985) was and remains a widely-read and influential American philosopher, best known for her analyses of language, mind, art and ritual in terms of her notion of symbolic form, derived primarily from her study of logic, music, and the philosophical ideas of Sheffer, the early Wittgenstein, Russell, Whitehead, and Cassirer. Studying in Vienna in 1921, during the 1920s and 30s Langer gave pioneering readings of Frege, Russell, Whitehead and the early Wittgenstein, embedding their...