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Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Gift of Music, Not Communication, but Intuition

"I find it a little bit hard to completely get my head around that transition between having something being conceivable or even having a semantic," he says. "The last thing effect is, like the first effect of speech on the development of the mind, to make things conceivable rather than to store up propositions,. Not communication, but insight is the gift of music."

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