The topic of the Karl Jaspers Complete Works (KJG) workshop is the recently launched edition of the writings on Max Weber (KJG I/19), whom Jaspers described as “the greatest German of our age”; in him, one can also see “what a philosopher is today.”

First, Edith Hanke, long-time editor and general editor of the Max Weber Collected Works (MWG), will report on the completion of the series in 2020 and on her current project: the digital edition of the MWG. Dirk Fonfara then discusses the structure of the KJG volume dedicated to Max Weber. This volume primarily contains works published during Jaspers’ lifetime, including: Max Weber. A Memorial Address (1921) and Max Weber. Politician, Researcher, Philosopher (1932, 4th ed. 1958). However, Jaspers’ characterization of Weber in the monograph differs significantly from that in the memorial address, as Bernd Weidmann explains in detail. The volume also includes previously unpublished or only partially published posthumous texts: for example, the draft of a speech on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Max Weber’s death (1930), a “Concluding Characterization” from the lecture “Philosophy of the Present” in the winter semester of 1960/61, and “Final Notes” from the late 1960s, e.g., on Weber’s illness. The volume is rounded out by selected relevant correspondence regarding Max Weber.

It is not without significance that Max Weber’s nephew, Eduard Baumgarten, provided Jaspers with letters between December 1962 and February 1963 that prove Max Weber had been in an intimate relationship with his former doctoral student, Else Jaffé-von Richthofen. Did this revelation about Max Weber as a person have a negative impact on Jaspers’ image of Max Weber the philosopher? How did Jaspers later react to invitations to events marking Max Weber’s 100th birthday (1964) and to his publisher Klaus Piper’s suggestion to reprint Weber’s writings in the anthology *Aneignung und Polemik* (published in 1968)?

The event is open to the public. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

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