With a Foreword by Felix Frankfurter. Edited by Paul Henle, Horace M. Kallen, & Susanne K. Langer. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 306 pp., frontispiece portrait of Sheffer after C. J. Ducasse. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black lettering piece, front board with single blind fillet border, dust jacket (jacket very slightly edge worn, spine faintly panel toned with some minor loss to head and tail, otherwise a very good copy). New York, The Liberal Arts Press, 1951.
A festschrift in honour of the American logician Henry Sheffer, one of the most important influences in Susanne K. Langer’s intellectual life, under whom she studied formal logic at Harvard. Langer’s contribution to the present collection is titled ‘Abstraction in Science and Abstraction in Art’.
