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

Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published numerous studies, translations and biographical works on Marx and Engels for major international publishers and works of reference. He has been a consultant on the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe edition of the complete works headquartered in Berlin. Daniel Blank was educated at the University of Munster, Germany in political science, and was awarded a PhD in 2008 from the University of Bristol, UK, for his dissertation "The German Ideology' by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Political History of the Manuscript and its Published Editions.' He lives and works in Bonn, Germany.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Manuscripts and Politics 2. The 1920s: Early Political Disputes over The German Ideology 3. The Stalin Era and the Construction of a Feuerbach-chapter in Volume I/5 of MEGA1 4. Two Popular Study Editions at the beginning of the 'Cold War' 5. The Turbulent 60s: The Publication of Long-lost Pages of the 1845–46 Manuscripts 6. The Historical Origins of the 1845–46 Manuscripts 7. The End of East European Communism and its Impact on the Preparation of Volume I/5 of MEGA2 8. The Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003 edition of The German Ideology 9. 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 ExcursusAbbreviations and Bibliography Index