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.
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
Daniel Blank, Durham University) Blank, Daniel (Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature, 1500-1700, Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature, 1500-1700