From: Riccardo Bellofiore (riccardo.bellofiore@UNIBG.IT)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 07:45:04 EST
On the tracks of a spectre. The works of Karl Marx between philology and philosophy For some years there has been a reawakening of interest for the work of Marx. A widespread renewal of studies in Europe, in the Anglophone world and in many other parts of the world, places his thought, apparently out of fashion but of continuing relevance, once more on the agenda. As astonishing as it may appear, Marx remains today an author who is poorly known, deprived as he is of an integral scientific edition of his works. Such an absence is even more astonishing if one considers that a significant part of his manuscripts and of the immense mass of extracts and annotations from books which he was accustomed to make during his studies, as well a significant number of letters written by both Marx and Engels, remain unpublished. Furthermore, Marx¹s work, notwithstanding all of the attempts of completion and systemization which have occurred in the past, is characterised by its fragmentary nature and its significant incompletion. Such aspects, far from diminishing the importance of Marx, place at the disposition of scholars a great open workshop of critical theory. The work on edition of the complete works of Marx and Engels, the Marx Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), which was begun in Moscow and East Berlin during the 1960s and first published in 1975, was interrupted following the events of 1989. In 1990, due to the initiative of the International Institute for Social History (IISG) of Amsterdam, the Internationale Marx Engels Stiftung (IMES) was founded. Its purpose is to complete the historical-critical edition of the complete works (56 volumes of the planned 122 have already been published). Other members of the IMES, in addition to the IISG, are the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), the Karl Marx Haus (KMH) of Trier, the Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial¹no-politicheskoi istorii (RGASPI) of Moscow. Scholars from Germany, Russia, France, Holland, the USA, Japan, Denmark and Italy are currently participating in the work of the IMES. Marx¹s works are returned, in there enormous richness and with the undeniable critical character which distinguishes them, to the study and the debate of researchers. It thus seems to be the appropriate moment to engage in a serious and rigorous manner with the challenge of Marx¹s thought. Taking its inspiration from the contemporary state of work on the MEGA, an international conference will take place in Naples from the 1st to the 3rd of April 2004 with the theme: The work of Karl Marx between philology and philosophy. The conference, presenting for the first time in Italy the new historical-critical edition, will present an account of the state of philological research of the MEGA project. It will also provide a forum for the discussion of new studies in the field of philosophy, with particular reference to the early works (which have been the subject of the major number of publications in recent years), and to the critique of political economy, which remains fundamental for the comprehension of contemporary reality. Two further sessions will concern the Œactuality¹ of Marx¹s thought in philosophy, economy and politics, and a meeting of some of the most prestigious international journals which concern themselves with these themes and the debates which they have aroused. All of the sessions will involve a close examination of the most recent interpretations of Marx¹s work in Italy and in the world, with the goal of sharing studies and knowledge and attempting to forge collaboration and contact between groups of researchers and independent scholars. This would represent a significant contribution to a new Marx-Forschung, necessary for all forms of critical thought and indispensable for the comprehension of the present. (Organized by: Università degli Studi di Napoli ³Federico II², Università degli Studi di Napoli ³L¹Orientale², Istituto Universitario ³Suor Orsola Benincasa², Università degli Studi di Bari, Istituto Italiano degli Studi Filosofici) For information, please contact the conference secretary, Marcello Musto: marcellomusto@hotmail.com CONFERENZA INTERNAZIONALE Napoli 1-3 Aprile 2004 Istituto Universitario ³Suor Orsola Benincasa² Via Sour Orsola, 10 - Sala degli Angeli - Giovedì 1 Aprile ore 9.00 I SESSIONE: MEGA_: la nuova edizione storico-critica delle opere complete di Marx ed Engels Presiede Roberto Finelli Manfred Neuhaus (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) Klassiker unter Klassikern. Zu den Editionsphilologischen Grundlagen der neuen MEGA Gerald Hubmann (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) Unvollendete Werke. Zu editionsphilologischen Konstellationen bei Marx und anderen Klassikern der Sozialwissenschaft (Pausa) Izumi Omura (Tohoku University Sendai) Die letzten Forschungsergebnisse der sendaier MEGA-Arbeitsgruppe Japan Malcolm Sylvers (Università di Venezia) La corrispondenza di Marx ed Engels nella MEGA_ Gian Mario Bravo (Università di Torino) Marx, il marxismo e la sinistra in Italia nella seconda metà dell¹ 800 Giovedì 1 Aprile ore 15.00 II SESSIONE: Critica della filosofia e critica della politica nel giovane Marx Presiede Roberto Esposito Giuseppe Cacciatore (Università ³Federico II² Napoli) Il Marx democratico Gianfranco Borrelli (Università ³Federico II² Napoli) Gli elementi di critica della politica nei primi scritti di Karl Marx Eustache Kouvelakis (King¹s College London) Marx¹s critique of politics (Pausa) Marcello Musto (Università ³L¹Orientale² Napoli) Marx a Parigi: la critica del 1844 Mario Cingoli (Università ³Bicocca² Milano) Marx e il materialismo Peter Thomas (University of Queensland) Die Fastnachtszeit der Philosophie: Il Marx della Doktoratdissertation Venerdì 2 Aprile ore 9.00 III SESSIONE (I Parte): Il Capitale: la critica incompiuta Presiede Marcello Musto Roberto Finelli (Università di Bari) La scienza del Capitale come circolo del ³presupposto-posto² Enrique Dussel (Universidad Autònoma Metropolitana Città del Messico) ³Grund² and ³Quelle² in ³Das Kapital² of Marx (Pausa) Jacques Bidet (Universitè de Paris X) La reconstruction métastructurelle du Capital Fritz Wolfgang Haug Freie Universität Berlin Von den Grundrissen zur französischen Übersetzung von Kapital I Marx¹ Lernprozess Venerdì 2 Aprile ore 15.00 IV SESSIONE: Marx Forschung: annali a confronto Presiede Peter Thomas Frigga Haug DAS HISTORISCH-KRITISCHE WÖRTERBUCH DES MARXISMUS Gerald Hubmann MARX ENGELS JAHRBUCH (Pausa) - Tavola Rotonda - Presiede Domenico Jervolino Jacques Bidet ACTUEL MARX Daniel Bensaïd MARX CONTEMPORAINE Sebastian Budgen HISTORICAL MATERIALISM Aldo Tortorella CRITICA MARXISTA Scipione Semeraro ALTERNATIVE Sandro Mezzadra DERIVE E APPRODI Sabato 3 Aprile ore 9.30 III SESSIONE (II parte): Il Capitale: la critica incompiuta Presiede Giuseppe Cacciatore Chris Arthur University of Sussex Hegel¹s Logic and Marx¹s Capital Geert Reuten University of Amsterdam A transubstantiation is hauntingŠ: the ideal introversive substance and extroversive form of value in Capital. Riccardo Bellofiore Università di Bergamo Marx dopo Hegel. Il capitale come totalità e la centralità della produzione (Pausa) V SESSIONE (I parte): Un oggi per Marx Presiede Pasquale Voza Wei Xiaoping (Accademia delle Scienze di Pechino) Marx research situation in today¹s China Domenico Losurdo (Università di Urbino) Tre generi letterari nel discorso di Marx: che fare? Sabato 3 Aprile ore 15.00 V SESSIONE (I parte): Un oggi per Marx Presiede Giuseppe Prestipino André Tosel (Université de Nice) Il comunismo della finitudine Domenico Jervolino (Università ³Federico II² Napoli) Il comunismo della finitudine e la traduzione come paradigma etico politico (Pausa) Alex Callinicos (York University) Contours of Anglo-Saxon Marxism Michael Krätke (University of Amsterdam) Erneuerung der politischen Ökonomie: wo Marx unersetzlich bleibt Daniel Bensaïd (Université Paris 8) D¹une mondialisation à l¹autre. Marx critique de la modernité (mesures et demesures du monde social) -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Hyman P. Minsky" Università di Bergamo Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it direct +39-035-2052545 secretary +39-035 2052501 fax: +39 035 2052549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/dse/homepage/bellofiore.htm
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