Otto Neurath. Manuscripts and Correspondence

Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was one of the key figures of the Vienna Circle; his wide-ranging interests included philosophy of science, economics, sociology, pictorial statistics, and visual education. At least as important as his theoretical work is his work as an educator and organizer of science. As a direct continuation of the Gesammelte Schriften edition of all of Neurath`s writings published during his lifetime, this project begins the publication of material from Neurath`s estate. This project will produce a commented facsimile edition of those parts of Neuraths estate that are located in the Vienna Circle Archive at the Noord- Hollands Archief in Haarlem. This material comprises the bulk of Neuraths philosophical estate, as well as those parts of the correspondence that cover his philosophical network. The approach includes editorial methods, methods of the history of philosophy of science, and digital humanities. The main research tool is the database Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism (VALEP), which will be extended by a new read-only platform VALEP+. This project makes large parts of the Neurath legacy publicly accessible for the first time in annotated form. On the level of digital humanities, it extends the existing VALEP platform to VALEP+, which will make this tool available to a much wider audience. The researchers involved can be divided into two groups. First, the editorial team consisting of Lucas Baccarat (University of Vienna), Christian Damböck (University of Vienna), Johannes Friedl (University of Graz), Ulf Höfer (University of Graz), Silke Körber (Humboldt University), Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (University of Vienna), Elisabeth Nemeth (University of Vienna), Günther Sander (LMU Munich), Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna), Adam Tamas Tuboly (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester). Second, the DH team, which includes Christian Damböck (University of Vienna, Coordination), Catherine Schlienger (University of Vienna, Software Engineering), Helena Müller (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, UX Design), and Lucas Baccarat (University of Vienna, Data Processing). The requested funds will be used exclusively for the DH part of this project.