Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One) - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer

On Philosophy in a New Key (1942), ch. 1-5, plus as background most of us looked at Ernst Cassirer's An Essay on Man (1944), ch. 1-5. What does it mean to say that humanity is homo symbolicus, the symbol-making creature?

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