Our Project

digitalHusserl will preserve, organize, and eventually present the archives of Husserl, including his personal and unique philosophic research library of books and prints, correspondence with students and contemporaries, photographic material, and more.

It is meant to thereby facilitate global access, unconstrained by travel funds and personal connections, and to energize the open reception and critical discussion of Husserl's work, presenting Husserl’s writings as a non-linear manifold of searchable texts: scholars will be able to develop their own research strategies, each thus creating a ‘virtual edition’ of Husserl’s writings. Since Husserl wrote in a special form of stenography, the simultaneous availability of the transcriptions in a digital and searchable form is crucial to fulfil this open access commitment.

Moreover, digitalHusserl will gradually implement digital tools in order to enhance search functions, to enrich  metadata, to code and display digital (normalized and diplomatic) transcriptions of Husserl's texts, and much more. Ultimately, digital editions will make possible the publication of texts that are yet unpublished and even non-transcribed as well as the rearrangements of already published texts under new themes reflecting new research interests.

This is a long-term project that in practice has to be executed in small steps whose size and speed are largely determined by the constraints of funding, available work hours, and the enthusiastic labor of volunteers. If you are interested in contributing, you find more information here.