RICERCA ITALIANA     

Text, extra-text, interpretation. Continuation of the critical edition of the published and unpublished works of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (literary remains, works, and correspondence)

Università di Pisa

Abstract

This project concerns the continuation of the Italian and German critical editions of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer, as well as the historical and interpretative study of their thought, cultural context, and influence. The project is divided into two main parts, one concentrating on Nietzsche, the other on Schopenhauer, while a third part will provide a hermeneutical, historical-interpretative link between these two, largely philological parts. The project employs five highly-experienced research groups which have already worked together for some time, and thus have not only accumulated numerous abilities, but also consolidated their collective vision of the project.

The project has five main objectives, two regarding Nietzsche (1-2), two regarding Schopenhauer (3-4), and one (5) regarding the hermeneutical linking of the two main parts.

Objective 1 will be pursued by the Pisa group (Campioni), and concerns the continuation of the publication of, and commentary on, Nietzsche’s literary remains, works, and correspondence, in the context of the German (De Gruyter) and Italian (Adelphi) editions. In particular, (1.a) the group will produce the Italian translation and publication of a wide selection of the Basle lectures, undertake the related research necessary to prepare the critical apparatus for the second section of the Colli-Montinari German critical edition (KGW, De Gruyter) and for the three planned books of the >>>

Principal Investigator

Giuliano Campioni Università degli Studi di PISA

Research Objectives

The research project has the following objectives, divided among the two main historical-philological parts (objectives 1-2, publication and interpretation of Nietzsche’s works; objectives 3-4, publication and interpretation of Schopenhauer’s works) and the third part, which will provide a hermeneutical, historical-interpretative link between them.

1. (Pisa research group – Campioni) The continuation of the publication of, and commentary on, Nietzsche’s literary remains, works, and correspondence, in the context of the German (De Gruyter) and Italian (Adelphi) editions, and in particular,

1.a. The Italian translation and publication of a wide selection of the Basle lectures, undertake the related research necessary to prepare the critical apparatus for the second section of the Colli-Montinari German critical edition (KGW, De Gruyter) and for the three planned books of the second volume of the Italian edition (Opere, Adelphi) . Besides the management of the overall project, in the two-year period 2007-9 the Pisa group will work on prepariing the following lectures: “Prolegomena zu den Choephoren des Aeschylus”; “Einleitung in die Tragödie des Sophocles”; “Encyclopädie der klassischen Philologie”; “Geschichte der griechischen Literatur”; “Der Gottesdienst der Griechen”;

1.b. Continuation of the new Italian edition of Nietzsche’s notebooks (Collana Piccola Biblioteca, Adelphi), with the publication of the following volumes: vol. 7 >>>

First Results

The expected results of the research project, given in the objectives, are highly significant and also highly cohesive, as is shown in the section on the roles of the various research groups involved. The project plans, firstly, to complete and revise the critical edition of Nietzsche’s writings and correspondence and that of Schopenhauer’s works and literary remains. These two editions, founded some time ago by the same research groups which here propose to complete them, will provide the international scholarly community with the material and tools necessary to pursue the interpretation of these two important philosophers. Secondly, the project will extend its interpretative work, which obviously not only complements the philological work, but also brings it to fruition. Each research group concerned with philological areas of the project will also develop its interpretative work on the material it prepares for publication, and, further, one of the project’s specific objectives is that of connecting and integrating the two philological areas by means of a third, interpretative area, which will have a hermeneutic character.
It is clear, therefore, that an important quality of the project, and one if its most important atout, is the methodological, interpretative, and organizational harmony that exists between the research groups involved. Firstly, these groups already have lengthy experience of working together, on past projects which were not only related to the >>>

Timescale

24 months

National and international background

Regarding the first area of the research project, that concerning the critical edition in German and Italian of Friedrich Nietzsche’s collected works and correspondence, in the previous funding periods the members of the Pisa 1 and Florence research groups have made progress, in close cooperation with other international bodies of Nietzsche scholarship (Berlin, Basle, Vienna, Rome, Pisa, and Madrid) involved in various ways in work on the edition (Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Berlin, 1967- [KGW], and Briefwechsel. Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Berlin, 1975- [KGB]).
Regarding objective 1.a, the materials for the German and Italian editions of the final section of Nietzsche’s works, that concerning his philological writings and lectures at Basle, have been prepared. This involved work on defining the text to be employed, and the collection of materials necessary for the preparation of the critical apparatus for the second section of the KGW and the Opere, work undertaken by M. Carpitella, G. Ugolini, and F. Fronterotta, under the direction of G. Campioni and G. Most. Of particular importance in this regard is the preparation for publication of the 158-page manuscript PII 11, the ‘Lectures on the Preplatonic Philosophers’, and of the manuscript PII 12b, ‘The Philosophers’ diadocai’. Work has also begun on the revised and updated Italian (Adelphi) edition of Nietzsche’s notebooks from 1869 to 1889 (20 volumes are planned, along with a final volume of criteria, concordances >>>