Feeling And Form: A Theory Of Art
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What does it truly mean to feel the power of a symphony, to be arrested by a painting, or to be swept away by a poem? In Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art, the American philosopher Susanne K. Langer constructs a sweeping and rigorous philosophical framework that argues all art is a symbolic form of human feeling — not a trigger of emotion, but a presentational symbol that articulates the very structures of inner life that language alone cannot capture. Building upon the foundations she laid in her earlier work Philosophy in a New Key, Langer presents a comprehensive aesthetic theory that unifies all the arts — music, visual art, literature, dance, and film — under a single, coherent philosophical vision. Langer's prose is disciplined yet luminous, steering a masterful course between abstract philosophical reasoning and richly observed artistic examples. She draws on a vast intellectual tradition — from Kant and Cassirer to Whitehead — while forging a distinctly original argument that reshapes our understanding of artistic creation and aesthetic experience. A landmark text in 20th-century aesthetics, Feeling and Form remains an indispensable work for anyone who has ever wondered why art moves us so profoundly — and what that movement reveals about what it means to be human.
Author: Susanne K. Langer
Format: Hardback
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What does it truly mean to feel the power of a symphony, to be arrested by a painting, or to be swept away by a poem? In Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art, the American philosopher Susanne K. Langer constructs a sweeping and rigorous philosophical framework that argues all art is a symbolic form of human feeling — not a trigger of emotion, but a presentational symbol that articulates the very structures of inner life that language alone cannot capture. Building upon the foundations she laid in her earlier work Philosophy in a New Key, Langer presents a comprehensive aesthetic theory that unifies all the arts — music, visual art, literature, dance, and film — under a single, coherent philosophical vision. Langer's prose is disciplined yet luminous, steering a masterful course between abstract philosophical reasoning and richly observed artistic examples. She draws on a vast intellectual tradition — from Kant and Cassirer to Whitehead — while forging a distinctly original argument that reshapes our understanding of artistic creation and aesthetic experience. A landmark text in 20th-century aesthetics, Feeling and Form remains an indispensable work for anyone who has ever wondered why art moves us so profoundly — and what that movement reveals about what it means to be human.