PREMIUM-Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part Two)

Apr 04, 2022, 12:26 PM

Continuing on Philosophy in a New Key (1942), ch. 1-5. Is symbolism the software running on the hardware of our senses, or are symbols baked even into that hardware? We talk pictures vs. symbols, types of symbol-pictures, and what it means for experience to be symbolic.

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