Abstract
The Jena philosopher Rudolf Eucken (1846–1926) was among the most important philosophy of life authors of the late 19th/early 20th centuries. His extensive literary estate has until now only been selectively evaluated. The present contribution introduces the literary estate comprehensively for the first time, after it was put in order and catalogued at the end of the 1990s. Individual parts of the literary estate (correspondence, working manuscripts, documents on the life and professional papers, collections of material, the secret literary estate of Irene and Ida Eucken, material on the Eucken League) are described in a detailed manner. The significance of this fund of sources for research into the German educated classes, into the international contacts of German scholars, as well as into the history of modern theology and philosophy is thereby made evident.
© Walter de Gruyter
