A Political History of the Editions of Marx and Engels’s “German ideology Manuscripts”

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Manuscripts and Politics

   • Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

   Pages 1-6

3. The 1920s: Early Political Disputes Over The German Ideology

   • Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

   Pages 7-23

4. The Stalin Era and the Construction of a Feuerbach Chapter in Volume I/5 of MEGA1

   • Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

   Pages 25-41

5. Two Popular Study Editions at the Beginning of the “Cold War”

   • Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

   Pages 43-59

6. The Turbulent 1960s: The Publication of Long-Lost Pages of the 1845–46 Manuscripts

   • Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

   Pages 61-78

7. The Historical Origins of the 1845–46 Manuscripts

   • Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

   Pages 79-97

8. The End of East European Communism and Its Impact on the Preparation of Volume I/5 of MEGA2

   • Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

   Pages 99-117

9. The Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003 Edition of The German Ideology

   • Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

   Pages 119-135

10. Summary, Conclusions, and Ideas on How to Publish the So-Called “German ideology” Manuscripts in Future

    • Terrell Carver, Daniel Blank

    Pages 137-149

11. Back Matter

    Pages 151-214

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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.

• Marx
• Engels
• German ideology
• political theory
• political philosophy
• materialism
• ideology
• Marxism
• Cold War
• communism
• Friedrich Engels
• Karl Marx
• political history
• politics
• revolution

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