The Daily Nous reported a story about the editing of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe a few days ago. The initial story was that some things – politically highly charged – had been deleted or changed in the editing of the texts. The Gesamtausgabe has long been known to be unreliable, but this was a new set of revelations.

The story has now been updated, which shows that the initial reporting was somewhat flawed. The comments below the story are well worth reading – Peter Trawny (editor of the ‘Black Notebooks’) contributes, as does Julia Ireland, whose reconstruction of a manuscript page from the 1934-35 Hölderlin course is part of the story. The manuscript page – the illustration here, but is available in full in Ireland’s recent article in Research in Phenomenology – shows the formidable challenges for editors. The article is well worth a look.

Update: Julia Ireland’s article is available here open access.