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is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. (Suzanne Langer)

is that which brings to fruition the seeds of civilization which lie in every culture.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. Susanne Katherine Langer

is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

is our readiest instruments for abstracting concepts from the tumbling stream of actual impressions.

images are . . . our readiest instruments for abstracting concepts from the tumbling stream of actual impressions. They make our primitive abstractions for us, they are our spontaneous embodiments of general ideas (145). They also are 'just as capable of articulation, i.e., of complex combination, as words' (p93).

is a process of making sense out of experience.

is something other than geographical. A ship, a gypsy camp, and a circus all continually change their location but remain the same place.

A ship constantly changing its location is nonetheless a self-contained place, and so is a gypsy camp, an Indian camp, or a circus camp, however often it shifts its geodetic bearings. literally we say a camp is in a place, but culturally it is a place. A gypsy camp is a different place from an Indian camp though it may be geographically where lhe Indian camp used to be. (Susanne Langer 1953)

is a form of violence requiring new modes of analysis because it involves no a discernible antagonist, but a ruthless racial ideology, an uncontrollable virus, or, more recently, a shell from a distant hillside exploding amid unsuspecting victims in a hospital or market square.

As Langer (1996:53) asserts, 'We need a special kind of portraiture [and a special language] to sketch the anguish of people who have no agency in their fate because their enemy is not a discernible antagonist, but a ruthless racial ideology, an uncontrollable virus, or, more recently, a shell from a distant hillside exploding amid unsuspecting victims in a hospital or market square.

is developing a characteristic attitude toward objects in absentia.

She defines thinking as developing 'a characteristic attitude toward objects in absentia, which is called 'thinking of' or 'referring to' what is not here' (31)

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