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Author Whistler, Daniel, 1982- author.

Title Schelling's theory of symbolic language : forming the system of identity / Daniel Whistler.

Publication Info. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford theology and religion monographs
Oxford theology and religion monographs.
Contents Context. The symbol in the Goethezeit -- Language in the Goethezeit -- System. The symbol and the Identitätssystem -- Schelling's metaphysics -- Quantitative differentiation -- Construction -- Symbol. §39 of the Philosophie der Kunst -- Language in the Identitätssystem -- §73 of the Philosophie der Kunst -- Metaphilosophy. Science without reference -- Systematic eclecticism.
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854. Philosophie der Kunst.
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854
Philosophie der Kunst (Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von)
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Symbolism.
identity.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reference.
Symbolism
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Language and languages -- Study and teaching
Linguistics -- Study and teaching
Other Form: Print version: Whistler. Schelling's theory of symbolic language. Corby : Oxford University Press 2012 9780199673735 (OCoLC)809977206
ISBN 9780191655012 (electronic bk.)
0191655015 (electronic bk.)
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