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.
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