Hannah Arendt – Complete Works. Critical Edition II - Project details
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The edition project ‘Hannah Arendt. Critical Complete Edition’ will make all of Hannah Arendt's published and unpublished works accessible for the first time as a scholarly textual basis. Around 21,000 pages of books, essays, manuscripts and typescripts will be edited for this purpose. In addition to materials from known sources (Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach; Bard College, New York), several thousand pages of previously unknown documents (typescripts, proofs of galley proofs, notepads, etc.) have been identified in international archives and integrated into the text corpus.
The Critical Complete Edition will present Hannah Arendt's texts for the first time in their entirety, annotated and in the variety of languages in which they were written. The edition presents all the works published by Hannah Arendt during her lifetime (monographs, essay collections, articles, interviews, etc.) as well as thousands of pages of unpublished documents from her estate (typescripts, notes, preliminary versions and revisions), in the original languages of the texts (German, English, French, Yiddish). Hannah Arendt wrote most of her writings in more than one language. This edition makes this - fundamentally plural - dimension of her work accessible for the first time.
The Critical Complete Edition is designed as a hybrid edition (print and digital): The print edition is published by Wallstein Verlag in Göttingen, while the digital version is published by Freie Universität Berlin. The book and web portal optimise the potential of each medium by systematically interlinking them.
Following the successful first phase of the project, further volumes of Hannah Arendt's estate will be published as a hybrid edition in the second part. Göttingen State and University Library is developing an annotation editor for the annotations in the works with which they can be entered, displayed and edited.