Schleiermacher's lectures on aesthetics in context. On the reflection and application of digital methods in constellation research

• Applicant: Dr. Holden Kelm
• Subject Area: History of Philosophy
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 448730446

The aim of this research project is to discuss Friedrich Schleiermacher's lectures on aesthetics in their course for the first time in detail on the basis of an expanded textual material and to highlight their intrinsic meaning in their closer context (K.W.F. Solger, G.W.F. Hegel). The digital thesaurus developed for the project organizes the key themes and basic terms of Schleiermacher's aesthetics and at the same time forms the basis of the investigation of its course and context. The project is intended to contribute to opening up a constellation of philosophical theorizing that is still significant for our present day and to situate it within the framework of aesthetic teaching at Berlin University in the first third of the 19th century. The central methodological goal is to combine digital corpus and text analysis procedures with hermeneutic methods, to test them exemplarily on the basis of the processual and variant-rich text type of lecture, to reflect on them critically and to determine characteristics of their scientific relevance. The aim is to initiate a discussion on the significance of digital change for research in the history of philosophy, which to date exists only in isolated approaches. The publication (open access) of the extended digital edition of the Aesthetics Lectures on "schleiermacher digital" should be completed by the end of the project. The digital thesaurus will make it possible to index all edited texts, including those that were not included in the print edition (KGA II/14). In this way, a sustainable way of indexing the content and semantics of a digital edition will be demonstrated. The publication planned is to be published after the project by a publishing house relevant to Schleiermacher research and thus made available for research in scholarly libraries.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants