Schelling''s Theory of Symbolic Language - Forming the System of Identity

Klappentext A reconstruction of F.W.J. Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading of §73 of Schelling's lectures on the Philosophy of Art. Zusammenfassung This study reconstructs F.W.J. Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading of §73 of Schelling's lectures on the Philosophy of Art. Daniel Whistler argues that the concept of the symbol present in this lecture course, and elsewhere in Schelling's writings of the period, provides the key for a non-referential conception of language, where what matters is the intensity at which identity is produced. Such a reconstruction leads Whistler to a detailed analysis of Schelling's system of identity, his grand project of the years 1801 to 1805, which has been continually neglected by contemporary scholarship. In particular, Whistler recovers the concepts of quantitative differentiation and construction as central to Schelling's project of the period. This reconstruction also leads to an original reading of the origins of the concept of the symbol in German thought: there is not one 'romantic symbol', but a whole plethora of experiments in theorising symbolism taking place at the turn of the nineteenth century. At stake, then, is Schelling as a philosopher of language, Schelling as a systematiser of identity, and Schelling as a theorist of the symbol. I: CONTEXT ; 1. The symbol in the Goethezeit ; 2. Language in the Goethezeit ; II: SYSTEM ; 3. The symbol and the Identitatssystem ; 4. Schelling's metaphysics ; 5. Quantitative differentiation ; 6. Construction ; III: SYMBOL ; 7. 39 of the Philosophie der Kunst ; 8. Language in the Identitatssystem ; 9. 73 of the Philosophie der Kunst ; IV: METAPHILOSOPHY ; 10. Science without reference ; 11. Systematic eclecticism

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• Authors: Daniel Whistler, Daniel (Lecturer in Philosophy Whistler, Whistler Daniel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2013
• EAN: 9780199673735
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967373-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs; Oxford Theology and Religion M; Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs; Oxford Theology and Religion M
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Language, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought