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A political history of the editions of Marx and Engels's "German ideology" manuscripts /

"Since the 1920s scholars have promoted a set of manuscripts, long abandoned by Marx and Engels, to canonical status in book form as The German Ideology, and in particular its 'first chapter', known as 'I. Feuerbach'. Part One of this revolutionary study relates in detail th...

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Main Authors: Carver, Terrell (Author)
Group Author: Blank, Daniel, 1976-; Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
Subjects:
Marx, Karl, > 1818-1883. > Deutsche Ideologie.
Engels, Friedrich, > 1820-1895.
Feuerbach, Ludwig, > 1804-1872.
Deutsche Ideologie (Marx, Karl)
Dialectical materialism.
Communism.
Socialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Communism & Socialism. > Communism & Socialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Dialektischer Materialismus.
Kommunismus.
Sozialismus.
Marxism > teori, filosofi.
Summary: "Since the 1920s scholars have promoted a set of manuscripts, long abandoned by Marx and Engels, to canonical status in book form as The German Ideology, and in particular its 'first chapter', known as 'I. Feuerbach'. Part One of this revolutionary study relates in detail the political history through which these manuscripts were editorially fabricated into editions and translations so that they could represent an important exposition of Marx's 'theory of history'. Part Two presents a wholly original view of the so-called 'Feuerbach' manuscripts in a page-by-page English-language rendition of these discontinuous fragments. By including the hitherto devalued corrections that each author made in draft, the new text invites the reader into a unique laboratory for their collaborative work. An 'Analytical Introduction' shows how Marx's and Engels's thinking developed in duologue as they altered individual words and phrases on these 'left-over' polemical pages"--
Carrier Form: 214 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781137471154
1137471158
Index Number: HX39
CLC: A811
Call Number: A811/C331
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter One Manuscripts and Politics -- Chapter Two The 1920s: Early Political Disputes over The German Ideology -- Chapter Three The Stalin Era and the Construction of a Feuerbach-chapter in Volume I/5 of MEGA1 -- Chapter Four Two Popular Study Editions at the beginning of the 'Cold War' -- Chapter Five The Turbulent 60s: The Publication of Long-lost Pages of the 1845-46 Manuscripts -- Chapter Six The Historical Origins of the 1845-46 Manuscripts -- Chapter Seven The End of East European Communism and its Impact on the Preparation of Volume I/5 of MEGA2 -- Chapter Eight The Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003 edition of The German Ideology -- Chapter Nine Summary, Conclusions and Ideas on How to Publish the so-called 'German ideology' Manuscripts in Future -- Appendix A Select Bibliography of Editions of The German Ideology -- Appendix B The Genealogy of Editions of The German Ideology -- Appendix C A Brief Outline of the Content of a Future 'Contextual Edition' of The German Ideology -- Notes on Research Methods and Source Materials -- Methodological Excursus -- Abbreviations and Bibliography -- Index.

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