Susanne Langer

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  7 / 10
• SSSovereign Self

  7 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Jean-Luc NancyPILGRIM

  Being singular plural — existence is already with.

• Rachel BespaloffPILGRIM

  On the Iliad — the force that turns persons into things.

• Mary CalkinsPILGRIM

  Personalist self-psychology — the self as primary datum of philosophy.

• Maria LugonesFORGE

  World-traveling — playful pluralism against the logic of purity.

• Aspasia of MiletusFORGE

  Rhetorician of Pericles' Athens; teacher of Socrates by report.

• Carol GilliganPILGRIM

  In a Different Voice — ethics of care alongside ethics of justice.

Concepts where Susanne Langer sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Aesthetics — what is beauty?
  Is beauty in the eye of the beholder, in the object, in the relationship between them, or somewhere else?

Short exercises in the same tradition as Susanne Langer's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.