Dr. Ellie Anderson, philosophy professor and co-host of Overthink podcast, discusses Susanne Langer's theory of art and music, particularly drawing from her book "Feeling and Form". Langer discusses how art expresses and symbolizes human emotion—and life itself—and describes how symbolism is crucial to artist and musical form. Textbook is Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology reader, ed. Cahn and Meskin (Blackwell, 2008).

This video is part of a series introducing philosophers' views of art and aesthetics.

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