I. SCHLEIERMACHER’S WORKS
German works marked with an asterisk () have been translated into English, in whole, or in part.
Sämmtliche Werke. Berlin, Reimer, 1835-’64. 31 volumes. Referred to in this text as Werke. Published in three parts, theological, homiletical, and philosophical, cited as I, II, and III respectively.
Schleiermachers Werke: Auswahl in vier Bänden. Leipzig, Meiner, 1910-’13. A convenient collection of major works. Volume II is especially important as offering the first critical edition of the manuscripts on ethics in the Berlin archives.
Aus Schleiermacher’s Leben, in Briefen. Berlin, Reimer, 1858-’63. 4 volumes. Referred to as Briefe. Volumes 1 and 2 were translated into English by F. Reivan, London, 1860. These are cited as Letters.
Über die Religion. Critical editions by G. C. B. Pünjer, Braunschweig, 1879, and R. Otto, Göttingen, 1899, 4th ed., 1920. Referred to as Reden. Translated into English by John Oman, London, 1894, and cited as On Religion.
Monologen. Critical edition by F. M. Schiele, Leipzig, Meiner, 1902. Contains an excellent bibliography on Schleiermacher’s ethics, pp. xxxvi-xlviii. Referred to as Schiele. A French translaton of the Monologen, 3rd edition, by Louis Segond was published at Geneva and Paris, 1837, and 1864.
Grundlinien einer Kritik der bisherigen Sittenlehre. Critical edition by Herm. Mulert, Leipzig, Meiner, 1908.
Dialektik. Critical edition by J. Halpern, Berlin, 1903.
Schleiermachers Entwurfe zu einem System der Sittenlehre. Critical edition of the manuscripts on ethics in the Berlin archives, by Otto Braun. This is volume II of the Auswahl, mentioned above, Leipzig, Meiner, 1913.
Weihnachtsfeier. Critical edition by Herm. Mulert, Leipzig, Dürr, 1908. Translated into English by W. Hastie, 1890.
Kurze Darstellung des theologischen Studiums. Critical edition by Heinr. Scholz, Leipzig, 1910, published in Quellenschriften zur Geschichte des Protestantismus, Heft 10. Translated into English by William Farrer, Edinburgh, 1850.
Der christliche Glaube, nach den Grundsätzen der evangelischen Kirche im Zusammenhange dargestellt. Good editions are to be found in Werke, I., vols. 3 and 4, and in the Bibliothek theologischer Klassiker, Bd. 13-16, Gotha, 1889. Part I of a critical edition by Carl Stange appeared at Leipzig, 1910. The Theology of Schleiermacher by George Cross, Chicago, 1911, contains much of Der christliche Glaube in translation or paraphrase.
Significant early manuscripts and notes are published in part by Wilhelm Dilthey in an Appendix to his Leben Schleiermachers, Berlin, Reimer, 1870, cited as Dilthey, Appendix.
For further works and editions see the exhaustive bibliography in Ueberwegs, Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie, 11th edition, revised by K. Oesterreich, vol. IV, pp. 102-104.
II. COMMENTARIES
Bauer, Joh. Schleiermacher als patriotischer Prediger, Giessen, Töpelmann, 1908. Helpful for understanding Schleiermacher’s relation to public life and practical affairs.
Bender, Wm. Schleiermacher’s Theologie, Nördlingen, Beck, 1876.
Cross, George. The Theology of Schleiermacher, Chicago, University Press, 1911. A condensed presentation of his chief theological work, “The Christian Faith.”
Dilthey, Wilhelm. Leben Schleiermachers. Berlin, Reimer, 1870. An absolutely indispensable work for the study of Schleiermacher, and a very valuable description of the Berlin romantic group. Referred to as Dilthey. The Appendix, pp. 1-145, publishes manuscript material from diaries, etc., which throws much light upon Schleiermacher’s philosophic development. The new edition by Hermann Mulert, Berlin and Leipzig, DeGruyter, 1922, omits this Appendix, but adds more than 250 pages based on Dilthey’s notes for a second volume, treating of Schleiermacher’s life from 1800 to 1807. I cite this new edition as N. E.
Dilthey, Wilhelm. Schleiermacher. A fine brief account in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, vol. 31, 1890. Republished in vol. IV of Dilthey’s Gesammelte Schriften. Important for the second half of Schleiermacher’s life.
Gundolf, Friedrich. Schleiermachers Romantik. A very fine criticism of the romantic spirituality of the Monologen. Published in Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, Bd. II, Heft 3, 1924-’25.
Haym, Rudolf. Die romantische Schule. Berlin, 1870. 3rd edition revised by Oskar Walzel. A standard work of fine penetration.
Haym, Rudolf. Gesammelte Aufsätze. Contains an illuminating review of Dilthey’s Leben Schleiermachers.
Huber, Eugen. Die Entwickelung des Religionsbegriffs bei Schleiermacher. Leipzig, 1901. Careful comparison of Schleiermacher’s various treatments of this theme.
Loew, W. Das Grundproblem der Ethik Schleiermachers in seiner Beziehung zu Kant’s Ethik, Berlin, 1914. Illuminating as to the problems raised by Kant and their significance for his successors.
Pascendi Gregis. This famous encyclical of Pius X, condemning modernism (see The programme of modernism, Putman, N. Y., 1908) while not mentioning Schleiermacher, gives a very clear exposition of the general philosophy of religion which he helped to produce, and of the objections advanced by the Roman Catholic Church.
Selbie, William. Schleiermacher, a Critical and Historical Study. London, Chapman and Hall, 1913. Presents Schleiermacher as a theologian, but offers little with reference to his philosophy.
Troeltsch, E., Natorp, P., and others. Schleiermacher, der Philosoph des Glaubens. Berlin-Schöneberg, 1910. A very fine group of studies, presenting different sides of Schleiermacher’s activity, as churchman, educator, statesman, and philosopher, in the perspective of contemporary scholarship and conditions.
Wehrung, G. Der geschichtsphilosophische Standpunkt Schleiermachers. Strassburg, 1907. Good for the setting of Schleiermacher’s thought in the history of philosophy.
Willich, Ehrenfried von. Aus Schleiermacher’s Hause. Berlin, Reimer, 1909. Intimate pictures of Schleiermacher’s family life by his step-son.
The sections on Schleiermacher in Hasting’s Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, and in J. T. Merz, A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, are perhaps the best brief accounts in English.
For further commentaries see the comprehensive list in Ueberwegs, Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie, 11th edition, revised by K. Oesterreich, vol. IV, pp. 783-785.
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