RICERCA ITALIANA     

The legacies of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: archival
texts, digital editions, and libraries.

Università di Pisa

Abstract

The research project proposes a series of philological and philosophical objectives, which concern the restoration of the writings of two of Germany's most important Nineteenth century philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer.
The work of the various research groups involved is rooted in a strong tradition of textual and critical analysis and approaches the two philosopher's writings both from a philological and a theoretical-interpretative point of view. Moreover, it is also a continuation of an ambitious project of revision, expansion, and completion of the critical editions of Nietzsche's and Schopenhauer's writings.
The research project will proceed along two principal lines – one, which will deal with the edition of the work and epistolary of Nietzsche, the other of which will undertake the publication (in Italian) of Schopenhauer's posthumous works and make all of Schopenhauer's writings available (in German) in electronic form. A third, transversal, line of research will turn its attention to the hermeneutic and theoretical connection between the first two lines of research and will explore the rapport between Nietzsche and Idealist Hegelian German philosophy.

The first line of research foresees mainly the continuation of the Italian and German publication of the Colli-Montinari edition and commentary of Nietzsche's posthumous materials (objective 1), and more specifically: the translation and publication of an extensive >>>

Principal Investigator

Giuliano CAMPIONI Università di PISA

Research Objectives

PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVES
The research project is divided into 6 individual objectives, divided along two principal lines:
1. the editions of Nietzsche's and Schopenhauer's writings
2. the contact and intersection of these two from an interpretative and theoretical point of view.

As far as the work on editions of the writings of Nietzsche are concerned, the research program proposed is the following:

1. The continuation of the Italian and German publication of the Colli-Montinari edition and commentary of Nietzsche's posthumous materials. Research Unit I
(Pisa) will work on this objective. The following are its two sub-objectives:
1a) The translation and publication of an extensive selection of Nietzsche's Basel lectures; research toward the preparation of the apparatus for the second section of the Colli-Montinari critical edition (KGW, de Gruyter), and for the three planned tomes of volume II of the Italian edition (Opere Adelphi).
1b) The publication of volumes VIII-XV of the Frammenti Postumi (1880-Autumn 1885), in the context of the new edition of all the Posthumous Fragments of Nietzsche. The Research Unit plans to publish the following volumes by the end of 2007: VII: Beginning 1880 – Autumn 1880; VIII: End 1880 – Spring/Autumn 1881; IX: Autumn 1881 – Summer 1882; X: July/August 1882 – Winter 1882-83; XI: Spring/Summer 1883 – Summer/Autumn 1883; XII: Autumn 1883 – Winter 1883-84; XIII: Spring 1884 >>>

Timescale

24 months

National and international background

The research project has a series of six objectives, which are divided into two main categories, mainly philological in nature: one focuses on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche (objectives 1-3), the other on the works of Arthur Schopenhauer (objectives 4-5). The last objective combines the previous objectives in a theoretical-interpretative and hermeneutic prospective (objective 6).
Components of Unit I (Pisa) and Unit IV (Florence) form the research group dealing with the edition of the Work and Letters of F. Nietzsche (objectives 1-3) and take an active part in multiple national and international scientific initiatives relating to the publication of the critical Colli-Montinari edition of F. Nietzsche's work and correspondences (Werke, Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Berlin 1967 ff. [KGW] e Briefwechsel, Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Berlin 1975 ff. [KGB]). Main part of the work for the Colli-Montinari edition takes place in Weimar (where the Nachlaβ and Nietzsche's library are housed) and in Basel, where other important materials are located, but also requires research in other places (such as Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Pisa) and involves research in various locations (Berlin, Basel, Vienna, Rome, Pisa)
The main task of Unit I (Pisa) is the completion of the critical edition of the Werke/Opere (in particular the final section, which includes the philosophical writings and Nietzsche's lectures during his time in Basel), both for the German edition (published by de Gruyter >>>