Rudolf Carnap. Diaries 1908-1919 - Vol. 2

The diaries of Rudolf Carnap from the time between 1920 and 1935 are relevant as biographical sources and key documents of the early history of Logical Empiricism; they are the most important document on the history of the Vienna Circle; and they also document the interaction between Logical Empiricism and such heterogeneous historical currents as the Bauhaus modernism, the New Objectivity and the German Youth Movement. The texts being published here are part of the diaries of Rudolf Carnap that document more than six decades of his life (1908-1970) on approx. 4,500 pp of shorthand material. The volume is part of an edition that aims at making available the entirety of this material in five volumes. Carnaps diaries are here presented in a critical edition, which consists of the following parts. (a) the text of the diaries, transcribed from shorthand, analyzed, and commented in a historical-critical manner; (b) a scientific commentary; (c) an extensive introduction on the context of the edition and the biographical background of the diaries; (d) an editorial appendix that consists of comments on the development and transmission of the diaries, and the text of the edition; the editorial appendix also contains a list of literature being used in this edition, and a list of abbreviations and special characters; (e) family trees, name index, institution index, and an index of the literature being cited by Carnap. The texts being edited here are made available for the research for the first time, because they were only available in shorthand to date, which is not readable by the wider public. This edition of the diaries of Rudolf Carnap will provide a new basis for research on Carnaps biography and the history of Logical Empiricism. Moreover, these texts are important cultural historical documents. The editor Christian Damböck has developed this edition together with the two leading experts on Carnaps shorthand Brigitta Arden and Brigitte Parakenings, and with editorial support by Lois M. Rendl and Roman Jordan. The edition was developed with continuous support by Meiner Verlag Hamburg that included editorial questions (Marcel Simon-Gadhof), matters of typesetting (Jens- Sören Mann) as well as the programming of a LaTeX style sheet in commission of Meiner Verlag, by Jens Dittmar (DaTeX Blumenstein Leipzig).