Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language

Forming the System of Identity

D A N I E L W H I S T L E R

OXPORD U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

Contents

Note to Reader xii

Part I Context

1. The Symbol in the Goethezeit 3

2. Language in the Goethezeit 30

Part II System

3. The Symbol and the Identitatssystem 57

4. Schelling's Metaphysics 70

5. Quantitative Differentiation 94

6. Construction 117

Part III Symbol

7. 39 of the Philosophie der Kunst 141

8. Language in the Identitatssystem 165

9. 73 of the Philosophie der Kunst 181

Part IV Metaphilosophy

10. Science Without Reference 197

11. Systematic Eclecticism 222

Bibliography 245 Index 257