The Tetens Project

FAIN: RQ-292560-23

Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL 32306-0001)
Courtney Fugate (Project Director: November 2022 to present)

Preparation for publication of an open access digital edition and English print translation of the first volume of German philosopher Johann Nicolaus Tetens’s (1736-1807) essays. (36 months)

The Tetens Project aims to publish in print form a six-volume translated edition of the philosophical works, broadly construed, of Johann Nicolaus Tetens (1736-1807), accompanied by a parallel online German edition of the same works. The next phase of the project, for which we are presently seeking funds, will see the translation, editing and annotating of the second volume containing the first half of Tetens’s magnum opus, Philosophical Essays on Human Nature and Its Development (1777). At the same time, we hope to complete the online German edition of this volume and begin transcription and editing of the manuscript that will later form the basis for the final, sixth volume of the translated edition.