Critical complete edition
A critical edition (KGA) or historical-critical edition is the complete edition of the texts of an author or an author, which generally follows the principles of textual criticism was created. Such editions are usually created after the death of the author and often appear in several volumes over a period of several years. A critical complete edition is methodologically equivalent to a historical-critical edition (HKA), but contains not just a single work, but all known works by a specific author. Because the texts of a critical complete edition are made accessible in a particularly detailed manner and according to scientific standards, in contrast to a simple reading edition it offers a reliable basis for scientific and / or hermeneutical study of the texts. The above-mentioned textual criticism , on which a critical complete edition is based, is a literary method with the help of which the origin and transmission of texts can be traced and made visible. This is especially necessary when there are different versions or versions of a text. In addition to this form of text indexing, a critical complete edition usually contains a text-critical apparatus as well as documents on the history of its creation, explanations and other aids.
There are critical complete editions of many well-known authors. Some are also (only) available in digital form.
Authors with a critical complete edition (selection)
- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist and publicist (KGA not yet completed)
- Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), philosopher and cultural critic
- Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), mystic, philosopher and Christian theosophist
- Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), playwright, librettist and poet
- Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), poet and draftsman
- Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854), Swiss writer and pastor
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), poet, writer and journalist
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), writer, playwright, poet and librettist
- Hans Jonas (1903-1993), philosopher
- Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), poet of the Swabian School, narrator and translator
- Thomas Müntzer (around 1489–1525), theologian, reformer, printer and revolutionary
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), philologist and philosopher (digital KGA available here )
- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), Protestant theologian, classical philologist, philosopher, publicist, state theorist, church politician and educator
- Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), Protestant theologian, cultural philosopher and liberal politician
See also
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- ↑ See the example of Hannah Arendt at http://www.arendteditionprojekt.de/projekt/Allgemein/index.html , accessed June 6, 2019.