Susanne Katherina Langer (née Knauth) (1895-1985) was an American philosopher of art, a follower of Ernst Cassirer. She is best known for her 1942 book Philosophy in a New Key, in which she articulates and defends a theory of the relationship between music and the emotions. According to Langer, pieces of music represent the composer's knowledge of the morphological forms of emotional life. 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Aesthetics (also esthetics) is the philosophy of beauty and art. ... Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. ...

She was born in Manhattan. She studied at Radcliffe College, and completed a Harvard University doctorate in 1926. She taught at Radcliffe, Wellesley College, Smith College, and Columbia University. Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Radcliffe College is the historical name of a womens educational institution closely associated with Harvard University, one of the Seven Sisters. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Wellesley College is a womens liberal arts college that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. ... Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest womens college in the United States. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ...

From 1952 to 1962 she was professor of philosophy at Connecticut College. Connecticut College is a coeducational, private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. ...

Works

• 1924. The Cruise of the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales.
• 1930. The Practice of Philosophy.
• 1937. An Introduction to Symbolic Logic.
• 1942. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art.
• 1946. Language and Myth, translation of Cassirer, Ernst (1925) Sprache und Mythos.
• 1953. Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art.
• 1967/82. Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, 3 vols.

Reference

• Cassirer and Langer on Myth: An Introduction (2000) William Schultz