Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language
Forming the System of Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8080735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Whistler (0000-0002-8662-3211, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 261 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Schellings Theory Of Symbolic Language (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673735.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4232653557 |
| Open Library | OL25968264M |
| ISBN | 9780199673735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
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 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 Whistler 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 theorizing symbolism taking place at the turn of the nineteenth century. At stake then in this book is Schelling as a philosopher of language, Schelling as a systematizer of identity, and Schelling as a theorist of the symbol
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · German · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Period (music · Physics · Reading (process · Romance · Scholarship · Sociology · Symbol (formal · Whistler · Humanities and Social Sciences · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · friedrich wilhelm joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) · Identität · Identity (Philosophical concept) · Language and languages · Philosophie der Kunst (Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von) · Sprache · Symbol · Symbolism
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |