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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On Susanne Langer's Philosophy in a New Key (1942), ch. 8-10. Is music (the supposedly non-representational artform) a language? If it's "expressive," what exactly does it express?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We are listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who were at one

0:11.3

point set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

0:14.9

Our question for episode 292 is something like, what is artistic expression?

0:19.0

And we read Suzanne Langer's philosophy in a new key from 1942, chapters 8 through 10.

0:25.4

More information, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

0:28.2

This is Mark Clinton-Mire and Madison Wisconsin whose musical expressions can be classified

0:32.0

with expressions like, uh-oh.

0:34.2

This is Seth Pascon without natural models, but with support from rhythm and words in

0:39.3

Austin, Texas.

0:40.8

This is Wes All-One looking for the dynamic laws of life, power and rhythm in Cambridge,

0:46.8

Massachusetts.

0:48.4

This is Dylan Casey, breaking vases in Madison, Wisconsin.

0:52.2

Ooh.

0:53.2

That's a good one.

0:54.2

So we're finishing this off.

0:56.6

This book, finally.

0:58.0

I also had put forward.

0:59.6

So she wrote basically a second volume of this that's much longer called form and feeling.

1:05.3

From 1953, I pulled out from some syllabus, another one about music, chapter 7, the image

1:11.2

of time.

1:12.2

It kind of gives a little sense of where she went with this project.

1:15.0

But yeah, for something that's supposed to cover symbolism in general, it covered myth,

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