Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher: Lectures on Aesthetics. Edition as Part of the Kritische Schleiermacher-Gesamtausgabe (KGA, Abt. II, Bd. 14)

• Applicant: Dr. Holden Kelm
• Subject Area: History of Philosophy
• Term: from 2016 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 289633219

The aim of this project is to complete an historical-critical edition of Schleiermacher’s "Lectures on Aesthetics". The publication is planned for both analog and digital formats and the aim is to remedy the deficiencies of previous editions and make available a reliable and complete text version of the lectures (1819, 1825 and 1832/33). Schleiermacher’s Aesthetics is the only systematic explanation of a philosophy of art that refers to early Romanticism as well as to classical German philosophy (esp. Hegel and Schelling). The proposed edition includes previously unpublished manuscripts from Schleiermacher and his students. The project builds upon existing preparatory work, and was planned to be finished within three years. Because of the identification of a new manuscript (Nachschrift) from F. A. Trendelenburg, which documents the lecture from 1825 in a high quality and complete way, it is necessary to extend the intended project duration by one year.The project will be carried out in cooperation with the Schleiermacher-Forschungsstelle (research center) of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin Brandenburgische Academy of Sciences) and in coordination with the Schleiermacher research centers in Kiel and Jena and the Herausgeberkreis der Kritischen Schleiermacher-Gesamtausgabe (KGA). This scientific infrastructure provides an ideal framework for reliable, sustainable results and international visibility. Because of the software ("ediarum") the planned digital scholarly edition (TEI-XML, DTABf) will be suitable for future use and for further research in the field of digital humanities.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants