{"id":220,"date":"2025-04-10T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T11:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/the-susanne-k-langer-circle\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T11:13:35","slug":"the-susanne-k-langer-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/the-susanne-k-langer-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Susanne K. Langer Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anthonygflood.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Tony Flood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> writes,&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#39;m proud of this, Bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And you&#39;re the only one I know who would appreciate it.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/langercircle.sites.uu.nl\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/langercircle.sites.uu.nl\/<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The work they did to &quot;internalize&quot; all the links on my clunky old site is impressive. Langer scholars (I&#39;m told) love my prefatory notes, so they asked if they could host my Langer &quot;portal.&quot; I told them my old site&#39;s lifespan is a function of mine and therefore they should grab whatever they wish promiscuously.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#39;ve moved beyond Langer, of course, but enjoyed curating those items. Now they will be available to scholars on a more permanent basis (at least for the rest of this dispensation.&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">One of the things that attracted me to Tony&#39;s original site, many years ago, was that he was no narrow specialist, but had wide interests including interests in those I call &#39;obscure, neglected, and underrated&#0160; philosophers.&#39; See <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2016\/03\/obscure-neglected-and-underrated-philosophers.html\">here<\/a> for a post that lists some of them, and <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/obscure-philosophers\/\">here<\/a> for a sparsely populated category.&#0160; One of the obscure is <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/deck-john-n\/\">John N. Deck<\/a>. I had stumbled upon this character on my own, via a journal article of his I found in 1989 in the old <em>New Scholasticism<\/em>, but Tony supplied me with backstory and further references. I trust Tony would agree with me that &quot;Specialization is for insects.&quot; (Robert Heinlein) Or at least the early Tony would.&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Flood writes,&#0160; I&#39;m proud of this, Bill. And you&#39;re the only one I know who would appreciate it. &#0160; https:\/\/langercircle.sites.uu.nl\/ &#0160; The work they did to &quot;internalize&quot; all the links on my clunky old site is impressive. Langer scholars (I&#39;m told) love my prefatory notes, so they asked if they could host my Langer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/the-susanne-k-langer-circle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Susanne K. Langer Circle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obscure-philosophers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}