Heidegger Gesamtausgabe


Heidegger Gesamtausgabe is the title of the collected writings of German philosopher Martin Heidegger, published by Vittorio Klostermann.

Etymology

Gesamtausgabe is the German word for 'complete edition', used in this case as 'collected works'.

History

The Gesamtausgabe was begun during Martin Heidegger's lifetime. Publication commenced in the year 1975.

Heidegger on the ''Gesamtausgabe''

Martin Heidegger stipulated the order of publication. Shortly before his death, Heidegger wrote: "In this way, the complete edition is intended to guide people to take up the question, to ask questions and, above all, to ask more questioning questions"..
Heidegger had planned to write a lengthy introduction to his collected writings. He called his last project: Legacy of the Being Question. The date on this project is between 1973 and 1975, but it was not completed due to his failing health. Three documents have been published as part of this project.

Content

The Gesamtausgabe has 37,736 pages.
The editors had to work from Heidegger's often handwritten manuscripts, but they had leeway to include various student transcriptions in the published editions. They were given strict guidelines which are generally noted in the Editor's Afterwords. It appears that the outline of the majority of the published writing were selected by Heidegger himself.
The Gesamtausgabe is divided into four series:
'''Each series is divided as follows:'''

Criticism of the ''Gesamtausgabe''

  • Theodore Kisiel, "Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe: An International Scandal of Scholarship", Philosophy Today 39, pp. 3–15.

Indexes

Free Indexes for some of Martin Heidegger's collections and titles:
Index of all of the GA titles in alphabetical order in German from Klostermann is .
  • Ferrer, D.F.. Heidegger: Bibliography of addresses and courses he took and taught: German and English. https://archive.org/details/heidegger-bibliography-2022
  • Ferrer, D.F.. Heidegger's Middle Period : an Index. https://archive.org/details/mh-middle-index
  • Ferrer, D. F. Heidegger Zum Ereignis-Denken : An Index. https://archive.org/details/HeideggerGA73BookIndex
  • Ferrer, D. F.. Heidegger Schwarze Hefte : An Index https://archive.org/details/HeideggerSchwarzeBlackNotebooksIndex
  • Ferrer, D. F.. Martin Heidegger Esoteric Writings: An Index https://archive.org/details/HeideggerEsotericIndex
  • Ferrer, D.F. Heidegger Anmerkungen I-V : An Index https://archive.org/details/HeideggerGA97Index
  • Ferrer, D.F.. Heidegger Überlegungen XII-XV : An Index. https://archive.org/details/HeideggerGA96Index
  • Ferrer, D.F.. Martin Heidegger on the Greeks: An Index. https://archive.org/details/HeideggerGreeksIndex
  • Ferrer, D. F.. Martin Heidegger 1910–1932: An Index. https://archive.org/details/MartinHeidegger19101932Index1
  • Ferrer, D.F., & Sharma, Ritu. Heidegger Being and Time, Sein und Zeit : An Index https://archive.org/details/SeinZeitBeingTimeIndex