Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language

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...