Daniel Whistler
Biographic Data
| ID | 461164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Whistler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Whistler |
| SIGNATURE | WHISTLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8662-3211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Goethe and the Problem of the Plant-Image [Goethe und das Problem des Pflanzenbildes]
Post-Kantian Frontier-Towns: Introduction
“German Idealism” was not always German. The reception of Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, J. W. F. Schelling, and G. W. F. Hegel was a transnational event, which took the form of translations, cross-b
Hybrid Constellations
In this essay, I reflect on the idea of reading the historiography of post-Kantian philosophy after the spatial turn, and, in particular, I look to the “strong spatial imagery” deployed by Dieter Henrich and others as part of his Konstellationsforschung project. I describe, in turn, the concrete constellation-space of historical figures and documents and the Denkraum (conceptual space) constructed within Konstellationsforschung, and then examine …
The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy
French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays, written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and even twenty-first century French philosophy. The volume takes into account develop…
The Philosophical Correspondence and Unpublished Writings of Francois Hemsterhuis
The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis' philosophically ambitious and illuminating fragments, notes and correspondence Translates Hemsterhuis' fragmentary notes, treatises and letters in English for the first time, supplementing and informing the texts published in volumes 1 and 2 of the series Introduces the first translation into any language that is based on a critical and complete edition of Hemsterhuis' correspondence and…
Philosophical Correspondence and Unpublished Writings of Francois Hemsterhuis
Post-Bonnetian Naturalism
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism
Francois Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy
Writing after Materialism
This chapter attempts to contextualise Hemsterhuis’ organology in terms of other contemporaneous doctrines—particularly those of Diderot and Bonnet. The first section looks at the way Diderot read Hemsterhuis’ early work as a way-in to the problematic of Hemsterhuis’ use and abuse of the materialist tradition, the second turns conversely to Hemsterhuis’ own reading of Diderot and particularly the organology of Le Rêve de D'Alembert , the third sh…
Conclusion: Four Characters in Search of a Philosophy
The short conclusion considers the ways in which the foregoing can help us categorise the various stylistic features of Hemsterhuis’ late texts. For example, they can be catalogued in terms of the dialogues themselves ( Sophyle emphasises the popular and the accessible, Simon uses its effects to alienate the reader, and Alexis is a dialogue of historical movement); they can also be catalogued in terms of function: there are energetic or sublime s…
Socrates and Newton
Chapter One explores Hemsterhuis’ dual commitment to the ancient and the modern. It is made up of three sections: the first treats Hemsterhuis’ return to a Socratic ideal, the second his embrace of Newtonian geometrical method and the third reassembles these twin demands in Hemsterhuis’ system of epochs. The first section, then, treats what for many readers of Hemsterhuis—especially German readers in the late eighteenth century—was the defining f…
Francois Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy
Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy argues that Hemsterhuis' philosophy matters and that its exclusion from the canon of modern philosophy has been unjust. And this is not just because of its reception history (i.e., its influence on later German thinkers, such as Goethe, Hamann, Hegel, Herder, Hölderlin, Jean Paul, Kant, Jacobi, Novalis, Schelling, the Schlegels, Schleiermacher, Wieland), but it is primarily because Hemsterhuis' philosophy…
The Early Writings of Francois Hemsterhuis, 1762-1773
The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis’ early series of philosophical letters published during the 1760s and 1770s Translates four letters into English for the first time: 'Letter on an Antique Gemstone', 'Letter on Sculpture', 'Letter on Desires' and 'Letter on Man and his Relations', together with the short pamphlet 'Philosophical Description of the Character of the Late Mr. F. Fagel' Includes full scholarly apparatus and co…
The Dialogues of Francois Hemsterhuis, 1778-1787
A complete edition of François Hemsterhuis’ widely influential late dialogues, with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries Translates the 'Sophylus', 'Aristeaus', 'Simon' and 'Alexis' dialogues into English for the first time Traces Hemsterhuis’ remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism Includes introductory essays by Daniel Whistler (on Hemsterhuis’ relationship with Amelia Gallitzin) and Laure C…
Interrogating Modernity: Debates with Hans Blumenberg
Schelling Reader
Nature, Speculation and the Return to Schelling
The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology
A conceptual survey of 19th-century theology and its relation to philosophy, natural science and social transformations From the shadow of the Kantian critique it to the Oxford debates over Darwinism that shook the discipline to the core, and from the death of God to the rise of new Evangelical movements, 19th-century theology was fundamentally reshaped by both internal struggles and external developments. This critical history charts this reshap…
Naturalism and Symbolism
I argue that Schelling’s construction of symbolic language is to be understood as an application of Naturphilosophie; indeed, more generally, that the concept of the symbol theorised anew in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany was predominantly a naturphilosophische concept, and its transfer into the discourses of aesthetics and ultimately linguistics was one instance of a broader project (represented by Schelling and A.W. Schle…
Religious Symbols
In this essay, I survey the different uses of the concept of the symbol at play in the philosophy of religion. Considering that historically theories of the symbol have frequently had significant religious presuppositions and implications, I suggest that one might expect that the symbol would play a significant role in current research. This is not the case, however, since the very specific metaphysical, linguistic and theological premises that h…
Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of Identity
In this book, Daniel Whistler 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. 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 reconstruct…
The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Introduction to the Special Issue: Speculative Philosophies and Religious Practices
This article maps the political and theoretical landscapes that have led to this volume, which represents the first attempt to outline an open, yet strategic and critical, dialogue between certain traditions in philosophy of religion and practical/public theology. It identifies the speculative return of the Real within recent continental philosophy and the interest in the lived materialities and practices of religion as the shared points of conne…
Artist Unknown
Interrogating Modernity: Debates with Hans Blumenberg
Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of Identity
In this book, Daniel Whistler 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. 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 reconstruct…
Religious Symbols
In this essay, I survey the different uses of the concept of the symbol at play in the philosophy of religion. Considering that historically theories of the symbol have frequently had significant religious presuppositions and implications, I suggest that one might expect that the symbol would play a significant role in current research. This is not the case, however, since the very specific metaphysical, linguistic and theological premises that h…
Naturalism and Symbolism
I argue that Schelling’s construction of symbolic language is to be understood as an application of Naturphilosophie; indeed, more generally, that the concept of the symbol theorised anew in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany was predominantly a naturphilosophische concept, and its transfer into the discourses of aesthetics and ultimately linguistics was one instance of a broader project (represented by Schelling and A.W. Schle…
Artist Unknown
The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Introduction to the Special Issue: Speculative Philosophies and Religious Practices
This article maps the political and theoretical landscapes that have led to this volume, which represents the first attempt to outline an open, yet strategic and critical, dialogue between certain traditions in philosophy of religion and practical/public theology. It identifies the speculative return of the Real within recent continental philosophy and the interest in the lived materialities and practices of religion as the shared points of conne…
Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of Identity
In this book, Daniel Whistler 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. 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 reconstruct…
Naturalism and Symbolism
I argue that Schelling’s construction of symbolic language is to be understood as an application of Naturphilosophie; indeed, more generally, that the concept of the symbol theorised anew in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany was predominantly a naturphilosophische concept, and its transfer into the discourses of aesthetics and ultimately linguistics was one instance of a broader project (represented by Schelling and A.W. Schle…
Religious Symbols
In this essay, I survey the different uses of the concept of the symbol at play in the philosophy of religion. Considering that historically theories of the symbol have frequently had significant religious presuppositions and implications, I suggest that one might expect that the symbol would play a significant role in current research. This is not the case, however, since the very specific metaphysical, linguistic and theological premises that h…
The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology
A conceptual survey of 19th-century theology and its relation to philosophy, natural science and social transformations From the shadow of the Kantian critique it to the Oxford debates over Darwinism that shook the discipline to the core, and from the death of God to the rise of new Evangelical movements, 19th-century theology was fundamentally reshaped by both internal struggles and external developments. This critical history charts this reshap…
Nature, Speculation and the Return to Schelling
Interrogating Modernity: Debates with Hans Blumenberg
Schelling Reader
The Early Writings of Francois Hemsterhuis, 1762-1773
The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis’ early series of philosophical letters published during the 1760s and 1770s Translates four letters into English for the first time: 'Letter on an Antique Gemstone', 'Letter on Sculpture', 'Letter on Desires' and 'Letter on Man and his Relations', together with the short pamphlet 'Philosophical Description of the Character of the Late Mr. F. Fagel' Includes full scholarly apparatus and co…
The Dialogues of Francois Hemsterhuis, 1778-1787
A complete edition of François Hemsterhuis’ widely influential late dialogues, with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries Translates the 'Sophylus', 'Aristeaus', 'Simon' and 'Alexis' dialogues into English for the first time Traces Hemsterhuis’ remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism Includes introductory essays by Daniel Whistler (on Hemsterhuis’ relationship with Amelia Gallitzin) and Laure C…
Francois Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy
Writing after Materialism
This chapter attempts to contextualise Hemsterhuis’ organology in terms of other contemporaneous doctrines—particularly those of Diderot and Bonnet. The first section looks at the way Diderot read Hemsterhuis’ early work as a way-in to the problematic of Hemsterhuis’ use and abuse of the materialist tradition, the second turns conversely to Hemsterhuis’ own reading of Diderot and particularly the organology of Le Rêve de D'Alembert , the third sh…
Conclusion: Four Characters in Search of a Philosophy
The short conclusion considers the ways in which the foregoing can help us categorise the various stylistic features of Hemsterhuis’ late texts. For example, they can be catalogued in terms of the dialogues themselves ( Sophyle emphasises the popular and the accessible, Simon uses its effects to alienate the reader, and Alexis is a dialogue of historical movement); they can also be catalogued in terms of function: there are energetic or sublime s…
Socrates and Newton
Chapter One explores Hemsterhuis’ dual commitment to the ancient and the modern. It is made up of three sections: the first treats Hemsterhuis’ return to a Socratic ideal, the second his embrace of Newtonian geometrical method and the third reassembles these twin demands in Hemsterhuis’ system of epochs. The first section, then, treats what for many readers of Hemsterhuis—especially German readers in the late eighteenth century—was the defining f…
Francois Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy
Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy argues that Hemsterhuis' philosophy matters and that its exclusion from the canon of modern philosophy has been unjust. And this is not just because of its reception history (i.e., its influence on later German thinkers, such as Goethe, Hamann, Hegel, Herder, Hölderlin, Jean Paul, Kant, Jacobi, Novalis, Schelling, the Schlegels, Schleiermacher, Wieland), but it is primarily because Hemsterhuis' philosophy…
The Philosophical Correspondence and Unpublished Writings of Francois Hemsterhuis
The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis' philosophically ambitious and illuminating fragments, notes and correspondence Translates Hemsterhuis' fragmentary notes, treatises and letters in English for the first time, supplementing and informing the texts published in volumes 1 and 2 of the series Introduces the first translation into any language that is based on a critical and complete edition of Hemsterhuis' correspondence and…
Philosophical Correspondence and Unpublished Writings of Francois Hemsterhuis
Post-Bonnetian Naturalism
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism
The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy
French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays, written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and even twenty-first century French philosophy. The volume takes into account develop…
Goethe and the Problem of the Plant-Image [Goethe und das Problem des Pflanzenbildes]
Post-Kantian Frontier-Towns: Introduction
“German Idealism” was not always German. The reception of Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, J. W. F. Schelling, and G. W. F. Hegel was a transnational event, which took the form of translations, cross-b
Hybrid Constellations
In this essay, I reflect on the idea of reading the historiography of post-Kantian philosophy after the spatial turn, and, in particular, I look to the “strong spatial imagery” deployed by Dieter Henrich and others as part of his Konstellationsforschung project. I describe, in turn, the concrete constellation-space of historical figures and documents and the Denkraum (conceptual space) constructed within Konstellationsforschung, and then examine …
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