The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer

Lona Gaikis is an independent researcher, author, and curator. She is affiliated with research and teaching to the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword, Randall E. Auxier (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA)
Preface
Note on the Cover Artist
Acknowledgements
Portrait
Introduction

Part I. Placing Susanne K. Langer

1. Susanne K. Langer And The Harvard School Of Analysis, Sander Verhaegh (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
2. Models And Images In Susanne K. Langer And The Early Wittgenstein, Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin (King’s College London, UK)
3. Susanne K. Langer, Wittgenstein And The Profundity Of Fairy Tales, Helen Thaventhiran (University of Cambridge, UK)
4. Susanne K. Langer On Logic As The Study Of Forms And Patterns Of Any Sort, Giulia Felappi (University of Southampton, UK)
5. The Horizontal, Vertical, And Transversal Mechanics Of Susanne K. Langer’s Card-Index System, Iris Van Der Tuin (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
6. Susanne K. Langer’s Foray Into Art As A "Phenomenology Of Feeling", Rolf Lachmann (Independent Scholar, Germany)
7. Susanne K. Langer’s Theory Of Self-Liberation Through Culture, Anne Pollok (Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
8. The Systematic Position Of Art In Susanne K. Langer’s And Ernst Cassirer’s Thinking, Christian Grüny (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
9. The Meaning Of ‘Feeling’ In Susanne K. Langer’s Project Of Mind, Donald Dryden (Duke University, USA)
10. Psychological Dimensions, Cultural Consequences, And Their Breakings In Susanne K. Langer's Symbolic Mind, Robert E. Innis (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA)
11. Music As The DNA Of Feeling And Whitehead's Influence On Susanne K. Langer’s Philosophy, Lona Gaikis (University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria)


Part II. Generative Ideas

12. Susanne K. Langer And Philosophical Biology, Adam Nocek (Arizona State University, USA)
13. Thinking Non/Humanly With Susanne K. Langer, Eldritch Priest (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
14. From Aesthetic Frights To The Politics Of Unspeakable Thought With Susanne K. Langer, Brian Massumi (University of Montreal, Canada)
15. Towards Vitality Semiotics And A New Understanding Of The Conditio Humana In Susanne K. Langer, Martina Sauer (Institute of Image and Cultural Philosophy, Germany)
16. Virtual Powers In Susanne K. Langer’s Theory Of Dance And Its Application In Post-Colonial Hong Kong, Eva Kit Wah Man (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
17. “Virtual Acts” As A Langerian Approach To Performance Art, Christophe Van Eecke (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium)
18. Susanne K. Langer, Everyday Aesthetics And Virtual Worlds, Thomas Leddy (San Jose State University, USA)
Epilogue: “That She Cannot Be Catalogued” Tracing Susanne K. Langer’s Fortuna, Carolyn Bergonzo (Poet and Independent Scholar, USA)

Index