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Appendix a Select Bibliography of Editions of the German Ideology Appendix A Select Bibliography of Editions of The German Ideology (By date of publication) Year Edition/Editor Content 1846 Gesellschaftsspiegel (probably by Karl [Gegen Bruno Bauer] Marx) 1847 Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung (probably by Karl Beck Friedrich Engels) 1847 Das Westphälische Dampfboot (Karl Marx) Karl Grün 1896 Die Neue Zeit (Peter von Struve) Karl Grün (incomplete) 1899–1900 Die Neue Zeit (Eduard Bernstein) Karl Grün 1903–1904 Dokumente des Sozialismus (Eduard III. Sankt Max (incomplete) Bernstein) 1913 Arbeiter-Feuilleton (Eduard Bernstein) Mein Selbstgenuß (from III. Sankt Max) 1913 Unterhaltungsblatt des Vorwärts Mein Selbstgenuß (from III. (Eduard Bernstein) Sankt Max) 1921 Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Leipziger Konzil/II. Sankt Sozialpolitik (Gustav Mayer) Bruno 1924 Marx-Engels-Archive (Russian edn.) I. Feuerbach (David Rjazanov) 1926 Th e Marxist (English edn.) I. Feuerbach 1926 Marx-Engels-Archiv (David Ryazanov) I. Feuerbach 1932 MEGA1, I. division, vol. 5 (Vladimir Complete/Apparatus criticus Adoratskij) 152 / appendix a 1932 Karl Marx: Der historische I. Feuerbach/III. Sankt Materialismus (Siegfried Landshut/ Max/I. Die “rheinischen Jacob Mayer) Jahrbücher”/V. “Der Dr. Georg Kuhlmann aus Holstein” 1933 Th e Labour Monthly (English edn.) I. Feuerbach (incomplete) 1933 I. Marx-Engels-Werke, vol. IV (Russian Complete edn.) (Institute of Marxism-Leninism, Moscow) 1936 From Hegel to Marx: Studies in the III. Sankt Max (incomplete) Intellectual Development of Karl Marx (English edn.) (Sidney Hook) 1938 Th e German Ideology (English edn.) I. Feuerbach (true socialism; (Lawrence & Wishart, London) incomplete) 1953 Karl Marx: Die Frühschriften (Siegfried I. Feuerbach/III. Sankt Max Landshut) (incomplete) 1955 II. Marx-Engels-Works, vol. 3 (Russian Complete edn.) (Institute of Marxism-Leninism, Moscow) 1958 Marx-Engels-Werke, vol. 3 (Institute of Complete Marxism-Leninism, Berlin) 1962 International Review of Social History Th ree manuscript pages from I. vol. VII (Siegfried Bahne) Feuerbach and III. Sankt Max Apparatus criticus 1964 Karl Marx: Die Frühschriften (Siegfried I. Feuerbach/III. Sankt Max Landshut) (incomplete) 1964 Th e German Ideology (English edn.) Complete (Progress Publishers, Moscow) 1965 Th e German Ideology (English edn.) Complete (Lawrence & Wishart, London) 1965 Questions of Philosophy (Russian edn.) I. Feuerbach (Georgij Bagaturija) 1966 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: I. Feuerbach Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlooks (Russian edn.) (Georgij Bagaturija) 1966 Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie I. Feuerbach (Inge Tilhein) 1969 Marx-Engels-Selected Works, vol. 1 I. Feuerbach (English edn.) (Institute of Marxism- Leninism, Moscow) appendix a / 153 1970 Th e German Ideology: Part One I. Feuerbach/II. Sankt Bruno/ (English edn.) (C. J. Arthur) III. Sankt Max (Incomplete) 1972 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: I. Feuerbach Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlooks (English edn.) (Georgij Bagaturija) 1972 MEGA2 “Probeband” (Institute of I. Feuerbach Marxism-Leninism, Moscow, and Apparatus criticus Institute of Marxism-Leninism, Berlin) 1974 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Die I. Feuerbach deutsche Ideologie (Wataru Hiromatsu) Apparatus criticus 1976 Marx-Engels-Collected Works, vol. 5 Complete (English edn.) (Lawrence & Wishart, London) 1994 Marx: Early Political Writings (English Vorrede/I. Feuerbach edn.) (Joseph O’Malley) 1996 Th e German Ideology by Marx and I. Feuerbach Engels: New Translation (Japanese edn.) (Fumio Hattori) 1998 Th e German Ideology by Karl Marx Vorrede/I. Feuerbach and Frederick Engels: Introduction and Apparatus criticus Chapter I of Volume I (Japanese edn.) (Tadashi Shibuya) 2002 Th e German Ideology in Philological I. Feuerbach Context (German/Chinese edn.) (Wataru Hiromatsu) 2002 Th e German Ideology by Marx and I. Feuerbach Engels: New Translation (Japanese edn.) (Wataru Hiromatsu/Masato Kobayashi) 2004 Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003 (Inge Gegen Bruno Bauer/Feuerbach Taubert/Hans Pelger) und Geschichte. Entwurf und Notizen/Feuerbach/I. Feuerbach/Das Leipziger Konzil/II. Sankt Bruno Apparatus criticus Appendix B The Genealogy of Editions of The German Ideology In this appendix, we present the genealogy of editions of The German Ideology. The genealogy begins with the first German-language edition of the so-called Feuerbach chapter, which was published by Ryazanov in his 1926 Marx-Engels-Archiv. The 1926 edition can be found at the bottom of the page. According to our research, all later editions of The German Ideology stem in one way or another from this “ances- tral” Ryazanov edition. There are five lineages. The lineage on the very left-hand side of the following page shows the succession of those editions that were mainly constructed according to “logical” reasoning about content. The lineage on the very right-hand side of the page shows the succession of those editions that were mainly constructed accord- ing to the presumed “chronology” of the 1845–46 manuscripts. The other three lineages present (to a varying degree) mixtures of “logically” and “chronologically” constructed texts. The more one moves from the left-hand side to the right-hand side of the page, the more one can find editions, which are less accessible to a broad readership, but are increasingly “historical-critical” and thus scientific. I also render three horizontal lines that stand for three historical events: World War II, 1962, and 1989. In 1962, several long lost pages of the 1845–46 manuscripts were found. In 1989, East European communism came to an end. Comprehensive information about the impact of these three historical events on the political history of editions of The German Ideology can be found in chapters 2–8. List of abbreviations MEGA = Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (Marx-Engels-Complete Edition) MEW = Marx-Engels-Werke (Marx-Engels-Works) DZfPh = Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (German Journal of Philosophy) MECW = Marx-Engels-Collected Works L & W = Lawrence & Wishart, London Progress Publ. = Progress Publishers, Moscow 2004 2004 Marx-Engels- Landshut Jahrbuch 1989 1976 MECW 1974 Hiromatsu 1972 1972 Bagaturija Probeband 1970 Progress Publ. MEGA2 Arthur 1966 Tilhein DZfPh 1965 1965 L&W 1964 Bagaturija Landshut 1962 1958 1. German MEW 1955 2. Russian MEW 1953 Landshut WWII 1933 1. Russian MEW 1932 1932 Adoratskij Landshut & MEGA1 Mayer 1926 Rjazanov Appendix C A Brief Outline of the Content of a Future “Contextual Edition”of The German Ideology In the following, we provide a brief outline of how the various text fragments of what is known to us as The German Ideology should be presented in a future “con- textual edition” (see chapter 9). The importance of this outline must not primarily be seen in the proposed ordering of the various text fragments, but in the particu- lar method of producing such a “contextual edition.” Only an edition that reflects all the intermediate steps in the prolonged work process of Marx and Engels will allow the empowered reader to understand and reenact the intellectual develop- ment of the two authors in 1845–46. With regard to the final ordering of the various text fragments, we stress that further research is necessary. This research on the chronology of all the text fragments (not only of the so-called versions of last hand) will certainly involve the work of a whole research team. A “Contextual Edition” of The German Ideology Must Comprise: ● Marx’s article “Gegen Bruno Bauer” ● The remains of Marx and Engels’s joint article on Bauer ● The critique “Sankt Max” ● before the manuscript was tightened up (“extended stage”) ● after the manuscript was tightened up (“shortened stage”; without the sur- plus paragraphs) ● The revised remains of Marx and Engels’s joint article on Bauer (Featuring Marx’s text corrections/text amendments and the division of the article into “Feuerbach,” “Geschichte,” “Bauer,” etc.) ● The critique “Sankt Bruno” 158 / appendix c (Together with some of the text fragments “Bauer,” taken from the revised remains of Marx and Engels’s joint article on Bauer) ● The “main manuscript” as paginated by Marx (The revised fragments “Feuerbach,” “Geschichte,” and so on from Marx and Engels’s joint article on Bauer [without the text fragments “Bauer”] plus the revised surplus paragraphs from ‘Sankt Max’) ● The critiques of the “true socialists” (The exact periods of production must be further investigated) ● “Karl Grün” ● The introduction to “Der wahre Sozialismus” ● “I. Die ‘rheinischen Jahrbücher’ ” ● The three openings to “I. Feuerbach,” as well as “Fragment 1” & “Fragment 2” ● The “Vorrede” by Marx Notes on Research Methods and Source Materials Daniel Blank writes: In order to research the political history of the editions of The German Ideology in the most comprehensive manner, I made use of 149 scientific articles, 34 prefaces, and 21 letters that were printed in 116 books and journals (see the bibliography). The time period covered by the literature that I have used begins in 1840 and ends with the most recent publications about what is known to us as The German Ideology. I am sure that the literature that I have gathered from German, Dutch, and British libraries; that I have bought in European and Asian bookshops; that I have downloaded from the Internet; that I have received at international con- ferences; and that scholars such as Terrell Carver and Lu Kejian have sent to me from Japan and China represents the most relevant English-, German-, Japanese-, Chinese-, and Russian-language
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