From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Thu May 27 2004 - 13:49:13 EDT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Regina Roth" <roth@bbaw.de> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:53 AM Subject: Re: (OPE-L) Questions About Marx's Unpublished Manuscripts Dear Gerald, thank you for forwarding these questions about Marx's unpublished manuscripts. Let me give you some information from the view of the MEGA. As to the 12,000 pages of unpublished manuscripts I am not quite sure what they could mean, but I think these could be the manuscripts, that are drafts for texts, not published in the lifetime of Marx or Engels. (By the way, where did Agnus Maddison note this number?) To a) Most of the manuscripts mentioned there are already published, in German as well as in English, in several editions. The most popular ones are the Marx-Engels-Werke (MEW) and the Collected Works (CW). These editions present all the works published in the authors' lifetimes, a selection of their manuscripts or drafts, and also several excerpts. A special case are the drafts of Marx for Volumes 2 and 3 of "Capital". Up to now there are only published the drafts for Volume 3 and the first draft for Volume 2 from 1863- 1865 in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), vol. II/4.2 and II/4.1. Not yet published but being prepared for publication are the drafts of Volume 2 from 1868 to 1882 and some manuscripts with regard to Volume 3 from 1867/68. They will probably be out by 2006. There will be no edition of these manuscripts within the "Collected Works", because former versions and drafts of work that was published by one of the authors are explicitly excluded. To b) and c) Not yet out are 1. the drafts for "Capital" mentioned above, 2. most of the excerpts of Marx which reflect his diverse and comprehensive studies, mostly those from 1851 onwards (10 volumes out of 32 planned for the excerpts in MEGA have already appeared). Some, like the ethnological excerpts from the late 1870s have already been published in other editions. Within the MEGA, the chemical excerpts appeared recently. (For a detailed overview see http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/mega/abt4.html and http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/mega/revplan.html#anhang4) Generally, all the works and manuscripts produced by both authors (published and unpublished), and also every existing draft and excerpts from the writings of other authors will be published within the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), that is the historical-critical edition of the complete writings of Marx and Engels. The MEGA is divided into four sections (Abteilungen). The first section deals with works, articles, and drafts; the second with "Capital" and preliminary studies; the third with correspondence; and the fourth with excerpts, notes, and marginalia. Work on this edition is currently being carried out by the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, who also coordinates the work of several teams of researchers from Germany, Russia, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, the USA and Japan. The language of the publication will be mainly German (althoug a lot of the excerpts were written in a mix of German and English, sometimes also French or other languages). I hope some of this information can help. Best wishes, Regina ***************************************************************** Dr. Regina Roth Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften - Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe - Jaegerstrasse 22-23 10117 Berlin Tel.: 030 / 203 70 274 e-mail: roth@bbaw.de ***************************************************************** From: "Gerald A. Levy" <Gerald_A_Levy@msn.com> To: <OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Copies to: "Regina Roth" <roth@bbaw.de>, <info@marxforschung.de>, "Jerry-P" <glevy@pratt.edu> Subject: (OPE-L) Questions About Marx's Unpublished Manuscripts Date sent: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:38:58 -0400 > > Jurriaan wrote: > > > As Agnus Maddison noted, Marx wrote about 12,000 pages of > > unpublished manuscripts in total .... > > I wonder: > > a) How many pages of manuscripts by Marx have _still_ not been > published? E.g. does Maddison's figure _include_ or _exclude_ the > Paris Manuscripts of 1844, the Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58, > the drafts that were published posthumously by Engels as Volumes II > and III of _Capital_ and the manuscripts on the history of > economic thought later edited and published as _Theories of Surplus > Value_ by Kautsky, his mathematical manuscripts, marginal notes on > Wagner, etc.? > > b) For whatever quantity of manuscripts that remain unpublished, > what are the reasons? E.g. are they in a form that makes publishing > very difficult? Is there a shortage of finance and labour to do the editing > and publishing? Or what? > > c) What are the plans for publishing the remaining manuscripts? > When can we expect the remaining works to be published (and > in what languages)? > > In solidarity, Jerry > > > Ernesto wrote: > > By the way, Marx studied the Ciompi revolutioin and, so it seems, he > > considered it as the first modern proletarian revolution (but I am not > > sure of this). His notes are unpublished and I could not read them.
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