Susanne Langer (1895-1985)  THEMES ON THIS PAGE:  1. THE NEED TO SYMBOLIZE2. ART SHAPES FEELINGS  3. ART AS AN ILLUSION Susanne Langer (1895-1985) was an American Philosopher, one of the first female academic philosophers in the USA, popular in the past but nowadays often neglected or forgotten. She was born in New York to German-born parents and grew up speaking German. She first attended Radcliffe (a women’s college which was parallel to Harvard all-male college), where she studied under the British...