Hybrid Edition Schelling´s Berlin Philosophy of Revelation

In the hybrid edition project funded by the FWF, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schellings (1775-1854) Berlin Lectures on Philosophy of Revelation (1841-45) are made accessible to research in a text- critical edition at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Vienna. The project is the basis for two further modules dedicated to the digital edition of the Berlin Schelling: Module 1: Schellings Berlin Philosophy of Revelation (1841-1845). Module 2: Schellings Berlin Philosophy of Mythology (1842-1846) Module 3: Schellings Berlin exposition of negative or pure-rational philosophy (1846-1854). Schelling is one of the most important and influential representatives of so-called German Idealism. His impact reaches far beyond philosophy into various fields of knowledge. However, there is still no reliable text-critical edition of his late works available to researchers. Likewise, Schellings extensive partial estate, which is kept in the BBAW archives, has not yet been accessible to research. The post- humous edition of the late works by his son Karl Friedrich August Schelling cannot make up for this deficit. The project Electronic Hybrid Edition Schellings Berlin Philosophy of Revelation (1841-1845) addresses this serious desideratum of research and creates for the first time a digital text-critical and work-genetic edition of the Berlin Philosophy of Revelation. The scientific goal of the project is to break up the monolithic structure of the Philosophy of Revelation in the Sämmtliche Werke and to scientifically reconstruct its work- and text-historical development. The project realizes this by means of a digital database-based open-access edition in the edition environment ediarum. Schellings late major work Philosophy of Revelation is still subject to further development during his time in Berlin from 1841 to 1854. This is precisely what the version of the Sämmtliche Werke hides, suggesting an inner closure of the text. Only a text-genetic edition, which makes the work-historical development of the Philosophy of Revelation just as transparent as its complex debate-historical context, makes a pre- cise decoding of his late philosophy possible, which leads to revising classical patterns of interpreta- tion of the philosophical development of the 19th century. In this way, the Berlin Philosophy of Reve- lation can be used to show how Schelling not only initiated the historiographical thrusts in the sciences that began in the middle of the century, but also productively takes them up himself in his late work. This work will be carried out in three interlocking pillars: a. digital open-access edition, b. scholarly indexing, and c. print edition.