ABSTRACT
Schelling's electromagnetic history provided an alternative to both the personal and cosmic histories that became the accepted narrative accounts of how we understand ourselves and the world. If Schelling's option did not become the standard history, that does not mean it was or is invalid. Schelling wants his revelatory history to follow analogously from Davy's chemistry which makes the positive or negative charge of the electromagnetic fluid the measure by which to gauge the presence of specific elements. Schelling may point to a single term that constitutes all phases of the history of being. The promise that Schelling finds in the electromagnetic fluid is revealed in the revelatory mode of the singing school, which he also represents as a dialogue. The model of the electromagnetic orgasm enables Schelling to eliminate the oppositional relation, and the need for clinical guardians. The Ages of the World provides an alternate voice in the dialogue, attempting a revelation from outside the Socratic city.
