Suzanne Langer

Suzanne Langer was an American author, philosopher, and educator, and the leading scholar in the philosophy of art in the twentieth century. She taught philosophy at a number of universities and chaired the philosophy department at Connecticut College from 1952 to 1962. She wrote many groundbreaking studies, including Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art (1942), The Practice of Philosophy (1930), Language and Myth (1946), and Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (1953).