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Franz Brentano: Editions, translations, bibliographical resources

Contents of this Section

This part of the section Ontologists of 19th and 20th centuries includes of the following pages:

Ontology and His Immanent Realism. Excerpts and bibliography of his works, of the English translations and of the most relevant critical studies

Editions, translations, Bibliographical Resources (Current page)

Selected bibliography on the Philosophical Work of Franz Brentano:

First part: A - K

Second Part: L - Z

Introduction

"An edition of Brentano's literary production in its entirety is not yet available. At present the available works by Brentano divide between the following two types:

1. Works published during his lifetime.

2. Works in his Nachlass.

The works which Brentano published during his lifetime, in the form of both books and Essays, represent only a small part of his total output. The books published from the Nachlass divide between:

1. Books edited by orthodox pupils, for instance 0. Kraus, A. Kastil and F. Mayer-Hillebrand, which afford numerous personal insights.

2. Books published since the 1970s.

(See F. Mayer-Hillebrand, "Franz Brentanos wissenschaftlicher Nachlass", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 6, 1951-52, 599-603, and by the same author, "Rückblick auf die bisherigen Bestrebungen zur Erhaltung und Verbreitung von Fr. Brentanos philosophischen Lehre und kurze Darstellung dieser Lehren", Zeitschrift fur philosophische Forschung 17, 1963, 146-169; also "Remarks Concerning the Interpretation of the Philosophy of Franz Brentano. A Reply to Dr. Srzednicki", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 23, 1962-3, 438-44; see also J.C.M. Brentano, "The Manuscripts of Franz Brentano", Revue internationale de philosophie 78, 1966, 477-482).

The books belonging to the first category were compiled according to debatable philological criteria, with additions and collages of writings produced in different periods. The considerable arbitrariness of these constructs and the interpretative interpolations made by the editors have not generally benefited the understanding and diffusion of Brentano's thought. In particular, collections of the posthumously-published Essays and dictations have often adopted the method of interpreting earlier texts as anticipations of later ones.

Moreover, one should read a huge body of correspondence (1400 letters with Marty alone) which has been published only in part, while some of the corpus, including letters from Brentano's period in Italy (1895-1916), is entirely unpublished. Brentano's philosophical correspondence is of great interest, not least because a letter sent to one scholar was then passed on to others, who read it, commented on it, and then sent it back, in a sort of epistolary colloquium. Only a tiny part of Brentano's correspondence has been published from the Nachlass.

Apropos the Nachlass, its first classification was produced by T. Masaryk, who founded a Brentano Archive in Prague for the purpose of organizing and publishing items. In 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, the Archive was transferred first to Manchester, then to Oxford (the Bodleian Library), and finally to the United States.

Brentano's unpublished writings and dictations have undergone successive cataloguing by F. Mayer-Hillebrand, W. Baumgartner and T. Binder. They can currently be consulted at diverse universities. In the USA at the University of California (Berkeley), Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island), Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.), University of Minnesota (Minneapolis); Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), and at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In Australia they can be consulted at Melbourne University (Victoria); in Europe at the Bodleian Library of Oxford, the Staatsbibliotek of Munich, the University of Innsbruck, the University of Vienna, and the Goethemuseum of Frankfurt; in France at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; in Latin America at the University of Mexico City (Mexico D.F.) and the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Brentano Archive originally deposited at Brown University included Brentano's personal library. It can now be consulted at the Forschungsstelle and Dokumentationszentrum far österreichische Philosophie of Graz."

From: Liliana Albertazzi, Immanent Realism. An Introduction to Brentano, Dordrecht, Springer, 2006, pp. 341-342.

Main publications in German

Brentano, Franz. 1862. Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder

Neuauflage herausgegeben von Werner Sauer, mit einem Vorwort von Thomas Binder und Arkadiusz Chrudzimski zur Ausgabe der veröffentlichten Schriften, eingeleitet von Mauro Antonelli und Werner Sauer, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014.
———. 1866. Ad disputationem qua theses gratiosi philosophorum ordinis consensu et auctoritate pro impetranda venia docendi in alma universitate julio-maximiliana defendet [...]. Auschaffenburg: J. W. Schniper

Three pages; reprinted in: Über die Zukunft der Philosophie (1929).
———. 1867. Die Psychologie des Aristoteles insbesondere seine Lehre vom nous poietikós. Nebst einer Beilage über das Wirken des Aristotelischen Gottes. Mainz: F. Kirchheim

Reprinted from Wissenschaftliche Buchgsellschaft, Darmstadt 1967.
———. 1874. Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot

"This was the title of the first edition: subsequently the final dative "e" was dropped to give the more commonly cited Standpunkt. The 350-page first edition was designated as Volume 1; this too was dropped." (English translation: Introduction to the Second Edition, p. XIII).

Second edition with introduction and notes by Oskar Kraus Leipzig, 1924; reprinted Meiner, Hamburg, 1974.

New edition of Psychologie I & II (1874/1911) as volume I of the Sämtliche veröffentlichte Schriften with the title: Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt. Von der Klassifikation psychischer Phänomene Frankfurt, Ontos Verlag, 2008.
———. 1874. Über die Gründe der Entmutigung auf philosophischem Gebiete. Wien: Braumüller.
———. 1876. Was für ein Philosoph manchmal Epoche macht. Wien, Pest, Leipzig: Hartleben.
———. 1879. Neue Rätsel von Änigmatias. Wien: C. Gerold's Sohn

Second expanded edition with the title: Änigmatias. Neue Rätsel - Beck, München 1909
———. 1882. "Über der Creationismus des Aristotels." In Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Band 100 , 95-126. Wien: C. Gerhold's Sohn.
———. 1883. Offener Brief an Herrn Prof. Dr. Eduard Zeller aus Anlass seiner Schrift über die Lehre des Aristoteles von der Ewigkeit des Geistes. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot.
———. 1889. Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot

Second expanded edition by Oskar Kraus Meiner, Leipzig, 1921 reprinted 1969
———. 1892. Das Genie. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot.
———. 1892. Das Schlechte als Gegenstand dichterischer Darstellung. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot.
———. 1893. Über die Zukunft der Philosophie. Wien: Alfred Hölder

Edited and introduced by Oskar Kraus. New edition edited by Paul Weintgartner Meiner, Hamburg, 1968
———. 1895. Die vier Phasen der Philosophie und ihr augenblicklicher Stand. Stuttgart: Cotta

Reprinted with a new introduction by Oskar Kraus and the addition of essays on Plotinus, Thomas Aquinas, Kant, Schopenhauer and Auguste Comte Meiner, Leipzig, 1926.

New edition edited by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand, Meiner, Hamburg, 1968
———. 1907. Untersuchungen zur Sinnespsychologie. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot

Second expanded edition edited by Roderick Chisholm and R. Fabian, Meiner, Hamburg, 1979.

New edition as volume II of the Sämtliche veröffentlichte Schriften with the title Schriften zur Sinnespsychologie edited with a Preface and an Index by Thomas Binder und Arkadiusz Chrudzimski, Frankfurt, Ontos Verlag, 2009.
———. 1911. Aristoteles und seine Weltanschauung. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer

New edition edited by Roderick Chisholm, Meiner, Hamburg, 1977
———. 1911. Aristoteles' Lehre vom Ursprung des menschlischen Geistes. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer

New edition edited by Rolf George, Meiner, Hamburg, 1980
———. 1911. Von der Klassifikation der psychischen Phänomene. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot

Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte vol. II. Second edition with new unpublished essays edited by Oskar Kraus (1925)
———. 1920. "Zur Lehre vom Raum und Zeit." Kant Studien no. 25:1-23

Edited by Oskar Kraus
———. 1922. Die Lehre Jesu und ihre bleibende Bedeutung, mit einem Anhange: Kurze Darstellung der christlichen Glaubenslehre. Leipzig: Felix Meiner

Edited by Alfred Kastil
———. 1925. Versuch über die Erkenntnis. Leipzig: Meiner Verlag

Edited by Alfred Kastil; Second revised edition edited and introduced by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand, Meiner, Hamburg, 1970
———. 1928. Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte vol. III. Vom sinnlichen und noetischen Bewusstsein; Äussere und innere Wahrnehmung, Begriffe. Leipzig: Felix Meiner

Edited by Oskar Kraus. .

New edition revised by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand (1968).
———. 1928. Vom sinnlichen und noetischen Bewusstseins. Leipzig: Meiner

Edited by Oskar Kraus< reprinted by Mayer/Hillebrand, Hamburg, Meiner, 1968, 1974.
———. 1929. Vom Dasein Gottes. Leipzig: Felix Meiner

Edited by Alfred Kastil; reprinted Meiner, Hamburg, 1980
———. 1930. Wahrheit und Evidenz. Erkenntnistheoretische Abhandlungen und Briefe. Leizig: Felix Meiner

Edited by Oskar Kraus; reprinted Meiner, Hamburg, 1974
———. 1933. Kategorienlehre. Leipzig: Felix Meiner

Herausgegeben von Alfred Kastil; nachdruck Hamburg: Meiner 1985.
———. 1946. "Briefe Franz Brentanos an Hugo Bergmann." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research no. 7:83-158

Edited by Hugo Bergmann
———. 1954. Religion und Philosophie: ihr Verhältnis zueinander und ihre gemeinsamen Aufgaben. Bern: A. Francke

Edited by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand
———. 1956. Die Lehre vom Richtigen Urteil. Nach den Vorlesungen über Logik, mit Benützung anderer Manuskripte aus dem Gebiete der Erkenntnistheorie, aus dem Nachlass. Bern: A. Francke

Edited by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand
———. 1959. Grundlegung und Aufbau der Ethik. Bern: A. Francke

From the unpublished lessons on "Praktische Philosophie ". Edited by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand
———. 1959. Grundzüge der Ästhetik. Aus dem Nachlass. Bern: A. Francke

Edited by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand
———. 1963. Geschichte der Griechischen Philosophie. Bern-München: A. Francke

From the lessons on history of philosophy of the Nachlass. Edited by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand
———. 1966. Die Abkehr vom Nichtrealen. Bern-München: A. Francke

Letters and essay from the Nachlass edited and introduced by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand
———. 1975. "Was an Reid zu loben. Ueber die Philosophie von Thomas Reid." Grazer Philosophische Studien no. 1.
———. 1976. Philosophische Untersuchungen zu Raum, Zeit, und Kontinuum. Hamburg: Meiner

Edited and introduced by Stephen Körner and Roderick Chisholm
———. 1980. Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Philosophie im christlichen Abendland. Hamburg: Felix Meiner

From the Nachlass. Edited by Klaus Hedwig
———. 1982. "The Brentano-Vailati correspondence." Topoi no. 1:3-29

Edited by Roderick Chisholm and Michael Corrado.
———. 1982. Deskriptive Psychologie. Hamburg: Felix Meiner

Edited by Roderick Chisholm and Wilhelm Baumgartner
———. 1986. Über Aristoteles. Nachgelassene Aufsätze. Hamburg: Felix Meiner

Edited by Rolf George
———. 1987. Geschichte der Philosophie der Neuzeit. Hamburg: Felix Meiner

From the Nachlass. Edited and introduced by Klaus Hedwig
———. 1987. "Von der natur der Vorstellung." Conceptus :25-31

With a Vorwort (Preface) by Johannes Brandl pp. 19-23
———. 1988. Über Ernst Machs 'Erkenntnis und Irrtum': mit zwei Anhängen, Kleine Schriften über Enrst Mach, Der Brentano-Mach-Briefwechsel. Amsterdam: Rodopi

Edited and introduced by Roderick Chisholm and Johann Marek
———. 1993. "Zur Kategorienlehre. Ein unveröffentlichter Text." Brentano Studien no. 4:251-272

Herausgegeben von Mauro Antonelli.
———. 1993. "Von der Substanz." Axiomathes no. 4:25-40

Unpublished text (Palermo, March 1900) with an Introduction by Wilhelm Baumgartner and a letter by Anton Marty
———. 1994. "Zur Grundlegung der Tonpsychologie (1913)." Brentano Studien no. 5:219-236

Franz Brentano über Geza Révész - With comments by Wilhelm Baumgartner
———. 1994. "Diktate über die Zeit (1907 und 1915)." Axiomathes no. 5 (2-3):325-344

Unpublished text; with an introduction by Liliana Albertazzi
———. 2002. Briefe an Carl Stumpf, 1867-1917. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt

Edited and introduced by Gerhard Oberko
———. 2009. Schriften zur Sinnespsychologie. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag

Sämtliche veröffentlichte Schriften - Vol II.

Edited, with a Preface and an Index, by Thomas Binder and Arkadiusz Chrudzimski.
———. 2010. Schriften zur Ethik und Ästhetik. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag

Sämtliche veröffentlichte Schriften III.

Herausgegeben, mit einem Vorwort und einem Index versehen von Thomas Binder und Arkadiusz Chrudzimski.

Brentano's writings published during his lifetime will be reprinted by Ontos Verlag (now De Gruyter) in ten volumes:

Franz Brentano: Sämtliche veröffentlichte Schriften in zehn Bänden (Herausgegeben von Arkadiusz Chrudzimski und Thomas Binder).

I. Abteilung: Schriften zur Psychologie.

1. Band: Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt (1874/1911) [2008]

2. Band: Untersuchungen zur Sinnespsychologie [2009]

II. Abteilung: Schriften zur Ethik und Ästhetik.

3. Band: Schriften zur Ethik und Ästhetik [2010]

III. Abteilung: Schriften zu Aristoteles.

4. Band: Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles (1862) [2014]

5. Band: Die Psychologie des Aristoteles (1867)

6. Band: Aristoteles Lehre vom Ursprung des menschlichen Geistes (1911)

7. Band: Aristoteles und seine Weltanschauung (1911)

8. Band: Kleinere Schriften zu Aristoteles

IV. Abteilung: Vermischtes

9. Band: Vermischtes

V. Abteilung: Nicht-Philosophisches.

10. Band: Nicht-Philosophisches: Theologisches - Juristisches - Schachschriften - Rätsel - Dichtung

English translations

Brentano, Franz. 1975. On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Edited and translated by Rolf George.

Contents: Editor's Preface XI; Preface XV; Introduction 1; I. The Fourfold Distinction of Being 3; II. Accidental Being 6; III. Being in the Sense of Being True 15; IV. Potential and Actual Being 27; V. Being According to the Figures of the Categories 49; Notes 149-197.
———. 1977. The Psychology of Aristotle, in Particular His Doctrine of the Active Intellect. With an Appendix Concerning the Activity of Aristotle's God. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Edited and translated by Rolf George.

Contents: Editor's Preface IX; Preface XIII; Introduction 1; Book I. Survey of Earlier Explanatory efforts 4; Book II. Development of the Aristotelian Doctrine of the Active Intellect 25; Review; Guidelines for the Investigation 25; Part I. Of the Soul and the Powers of the Soul in General 28; Part II. Of the Parts of the Soul in Particular, and First of the Vegetative Soul 50; Part III. Of the Sensitive Soul 54; Part IV. Of the Intellectual soul 74; Appendix. Of the Activity, Especially the Creative Activity, of Aristotle's God 162; Notes 181; Index 265-266.
———. 1973. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. New York: Humanities Press.

Edited by Linda L. McAlister; translated by Antos C. Rancurello, D.B. Terrell and Linda L. McAlister.

Second edition with a new introduction by Peter Simons, London, New York, Routledge 1995.

Book One: Psychology as a science (translation of Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt - vol I).

Book Two: Mental phenomena in general (translation of Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt - vol II).
———. 1981. Sensory and Noetic Consciousness. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint vol. III. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Edited by Oskar Kraus. English edition edited by Linda L. McAlister; translated by Margarete Schättle and Linda L. McAlister.
———. 1902. The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong. Westminster: A. Constable & Co.

Translated by Cecil Hague (now obsolete: see the new translation by Roderick M. Chisholm and Elizabeth H. Schneewind).
———. 1969. The Origin of our Knowledge of Right and Wrong. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Edited by Oskar Kraus; English edition edited by Roderick M. Chisholm.

Translated by Roderick M. Chisholm and Elizabeth H. Schneewind.

Reprint: New York, Routledge, 2009.
———. 1998. The Four Phases of Philosophy and its Current State. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Appendix to: The Four Phases of Philosophy, by Balázs M. Mezei and Barry Smith.
———. 1978. Aristotle and His World View. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Edited and translated by Rolf George and Roderick M. Chisholm.
———. 1987. On the Existence of God. Lectures given at the Universities of Würzburg and Vienna (1868-1891). Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff.

Edited and translated by Susan F. Krantz.
———. 1966. The True and the Evident. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Edited by Oskar Kraus.

English edition edited by Roderick M. Chisholm; translated by Roderick M. Chisholm, Ilse Politzer, and Kurt R. Fischer.

Reprint: New York, Routledge, 2009.
———. 1981. The Theory of Categories. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

Translated by Roderick M. Chisholm and Norbert Guterman.
———. 1973. The Foundation and Construction of Ethics. New York: Humanities Press.

Compiled from His Lectures on Practical Philosophy by Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand.

Edited and translated by Elizabeth Hughes Schneewind.

Reprint: New York, Routledge, 2009.
———. 1988. Philosophical Investigations on Space, Time, and the Continuum. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Translated by Barry Smith.

Reprint: New York, Routledge, 2009.
———. 1995. Descriptive Psychology. London: Routledge.

Edited and translated by Benito Müller.
———. 1960. "The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena." In Realism and the Background of Phenomenology , edited by Chisholm, Roderick M., 39-61. Atascadero: Ridgeview.

Selection from Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt vol. I Book II chapter 1.
———. 1960. "Presentation and Judgment Form. Two Distinct Fundamental Classes." In Realism and the Background of Phenomenology , edited by Chisholm, Roderick M., 62-70. Atascadero: Ridgeview.

Selection from Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt vol. I Book II chapter 7.
———. 1960. "Genuine and Fictitious Objects." In Realism and the Background of Phenomenology , edited by Chisholm, Roderick M., 71-75. Atascadero: Ridgeview.

Selection from Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt vol. II Supplementary Essay IX.
———. 2021. The Teaching of Jesus and Its Enduring Significance. Cham: Springer.

Translated by Richard Schaefer.

Preface; The Moral Teachings of Jesus according to the Gospels; The Teaching of Jesus on God and World, and his own Person and Mission According to the Gospels; On Pascal's Thoughts as an Apology for Christian Faith; Nietzsche as Imitator of Jesus; Appendix: Brief Description of the Christian Doctrine; Indices.

French translations

Brentano, Franz. 1992. Aristote. Les diverses acceptions de l’être. Paris: Vrin.

Traduction de Pascal David.
———. 2004. "Sur Aristote." In Aristote au XIX siècle , edited by Thouard, Denis, 295-312. Villeneuve d'Asq Cédex: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
———. 2008. Psychologie du point de vue empirique. Paris: Vrin.

Traduction par Maurice de Gandillac; nouvelle édition revue et présentée par Jean-François Courtine (première édiiton: Paris, Aubier, 1944).
———. 2009. "Deux études de psychologie descriptive." Annales de Phénomenologie no. 8:181-204.

Traduction et Introduction de Antonio Mazzù pp. 181-182; Psychognosie et psychologie génétique , pp. 183-190; "Éléments de la conscience" pp. 191-204.

Extrait de Deskriptive Psychologie. Aus dem Nachlass herausegegeben und eingeleitet von Roderick M. Chisholm und Wilhelm Baumgartner, Felix Meiner, Hamburg, 1982, pp. 1-27.
———. 2003. L'origine de la connaissance morale suivi de La doctrine du jugement correct. Paris: Gallimard.

Traduit de l'allemand par Marc de Launay et Jean-Claude Gens.

Préfacé par Jean-Claude Gens.
———. 2018. Essais et conférences I. Sur l’histoire de la philosophie. Paris: Vrin.

Choix des textes, traduction et révision sous la direction de Denis Fisette et Guillaume Fréchette.
———. 2021. Essais et conférences II. La philosophie et ses ramifications. Paris: Vrin.

Choix des textes, traduction et révision sous la direction de Denis Fisette et Guillaume Fréchette.

Italian translations

Brentano, Franz. 1995. Sui molteplici significati dell'essere secondo Aristotele. Milano: Vita e Pensiero.

Prefazione, introduzione, traduzione dei testi greci, progettazione e impostazione editoriale di Giovanni Reale; traduzione del testo tedesco e indici di Stefano Tognoli.
———. 2007. La psicologia di Aristotele con particolare riguardo alla sua dottrina del nous poietikos. Con un'appendice sull'operare del Dio aristotelico. Macerata: Quodlibet.

A cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Stefano Besoli.

Nuova edizione interamente riveduta e corretta (Prima edizione: Bologna, Pitagora, 1989).
———. 1913. La classificazione delle attività psichiche. Lanciano: Carabba.

Con appendice dell'Autore e con prefazione e note del traduttore Mario Puglisi.
———. 1989. Psicologia dal punto di vista empirico. Trento: Reverdito.

Traduzione del primo volume a cura di Lilana Albertazzi (ristampata nella traduzione completa in tre volumi pubblicata da Laterza nel 1997).
———. 1997. La psicologia dal punto di vista empirico. Bari: Laterza.

A cura di Liliana Albertazzi.

Vol. I; Vol. II: La classificazione dei fenomeni psichici; Vol. III: Coscienza sensibile e coscienza noetica.
———. 1966. Sull'origine della conoscenza morale. Brescia: La Scuola.

Traduzione, introduzione e note di Adriano Bausola.
———. 1986. "Ciò che dobbiamo elogiare nella filosofia di Thomas Reid." Annali di discipline filosofiche dell'Università di Bologna :5-23.

Pages in PDF format

Roderick M. Chisholm, Bibliography of the Published Writings of Franz Brentano, Linda Mc. Alister, The Philosophy of Franz Brentano, London: Duckworth, pp. 240-247.

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