Editing Schleiermachers Lectures on Pedagogy and Psychology in the Critical Complete Edition

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Michael Winkler
• Subject Area: General Education and History of Education
• Term: from 2011 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 207123114

At the end of the year 2016 the volume II/12 of the Critical Complete Edition (CCE) of Schleiermachers works, Vorlesungen über Erziehungskunst und Voten zur Preußischen Erziehungsreform (Lectures on the Art of Education and Votums on the Prussian Educational Reform), will be published by Walter de Gruyter in Berlin. Thus, the first aim of the previous applications is achieved. The now requested extension of the project duration for another year submits the completion of the volume II/13, Vorlesungen über Psychologie (Lectures on Psychology). Therefore, the first edition of Schleiermachers psychology since 1862, and moreover, the first complete and commentated version of his psychology ever has been prepared. The volume provides the urgently required textual basis for the Schleiermacher research to further individual and interdisciplinary studies and supplements them with a historical introduction and an editorial report. Educational theory and psychology are closely linked. It becomes evident, that the theory of education which on the basis of the relationship between the generations examines the social dimension of the formative process finds its complement in the individually orientated educational process presented by the psychological lectures. Schleiermacher shows, that the individual has to absorb world and to posit him or herself in it and how those processes may succeed. Beyond that, based on the model of a modern (sociologically inspired) resonance theory it seems consequent to understand Schleiermachers psychology as an outline of a formation theory which raises the issue of the self-world-relationship of the individual as well as of certain groups of people. Of all lectures on psychology (1818, 1821, 1830, 1833/34) handwritten manuscripts by Schleiermacher survived. Parts of them have not been published up to now and will be publicly accessible for the first time. Beyond that, altogether twelve students notes of these lectures have been remained. One of each serves as routing text, while the others are consulted as alternatives in uncertain, incorrect or incomplete cases. The yet unpublished lecture of 1821 will be presented for the first time and provide essential research impulses. Preliminary works are advanced. All manuscripts have been transcribed and completed with a critical apparatus. Eleven of twelve students transcripts have also already been rendered and supplemented with philological commentaries. The application implicates to finally emend all manuscripts, to develop textual commentaries and to prepare the introductory and supplementary texts according to the guidelines of the CCE. The Jena research team has developed a methodical set of tools for working with historical sources and handwritten manuscripts which already could successfully be applied. Through the funding of the project by the DFG a valuable volume can be added to the CCE.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants