Re: [OPE-L] ISMT Conference in July on Marx and MEGA 2

From: Michael Heinrich (m.heinrich@PROKLA.DE)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2006 - 17:38:51 EDT


I don't have any new information about the dating of the drafts.

Michael

Paul Zarembka schrieb:

> Thanks, Michael. I had somehow thought that they were already
> available or
> almost so.
>
> Do you know anything about important distinctions from Engels'
> choices, as
> published, for schemes of reproduction?  For one thing, I heard that the
> dating is later than 1878 which Engels mentions in his Preface for the
> last
> drafts.
>
> Paul
>
> --On Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:52 AM +0200 Michael Heinrich
> <m.heinrich@PROKLA.DE> wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Marx first manuscript on vol. 2, written 1864/65 you will find in MEGA
>> II. Abteilung, Band 4.1
>> ISBN 3-320-00061-6. This manuscript, which Engels didn't use,
>> appeared in
>> 1988.
>>
>> For preparing vol. 2, Engels used several more recent drafts, which are
>> still unpublished. Some of these drafts
>> will appear in MEGA II. Abteilung, Band 4.3, most of them will appear in
>> MEGA II.Abteilung, Band 11. Probably these volumes will appear in 2007
>> and 2008.
>>
>> Best, Michael
>>
>> Paul Zarembka schrieb:
>>
>>
>> Exactly which volume has the all the drafts by Marx for Vol. 2 of
>> Capital, preferably with ISBN #?
>>
>> Is it in print and available in the U.S.?
>>
>> Thanks, Paul Z.
>>
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>> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Regina Roth wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jerry,
>>
>> The price of the MEGA2 volumes is unfortunately rather high, varying
>> from
>> 128,- Euro
>> (for the volumes which have appeard before 1989) to 168 or 178,- Euro
>> (e.g. for the
>> volumes II/12, II/14, II/15 on "Capital" which have recently appeared),
>> volumes from the
>> third section with the correspondence of Marx and Engels (including the
>> letters they got)
>> rate at 158,- Euro. (More details at http://www.akademie-verlag.de/)
>>
>> The appearance is still the same as in the time when the MEGA was
>> published by
>> Dietz-Verlag. Only the blue is a bit more dark, but both books forming a
>> volume, text
>> and apparatus, are bound in blue linen, with two red bands on the back
>> and the letters
>> written in gold. I think, from the outside, they have lost nothing in
>> the
>> new times. (From
>> the inside, I, of course, would argue, that they have won.)
>>
>> Best, Regina
>>
>>
>> Date sent:              Thu, 18 May 2006 08:59:55 -0400
>> Send reply to:          OPE-L <OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU>
>> From:                   Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM>
>> Subject:                Re: [OPE-L] ISMT Conference in July on Marx and
>> MEGA 2
>> To:                     OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regina and Riccardo,
>>
>> Thank you both for the information, links, and attachment.
>>
>> A couple of other brief questions:
>>
>> -- what is the price of the MEGA2 volumes?
>>
>> -- what do they look like (i.e. what is their physical appearance)?
>>
>> I ask the second question because I was quite impressed with
>> the appearance of  MEGA when it was published by Dietz Verlag
>> and hope that a similar standard and appearance has been
>> retained.
>>
>> In solidarity, Jerry
>>
>>
>> http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/mega/en/Startseit
>> e
>>
>> http://www.iisg.nl/~imes/intromega.html
>>
>>
>>
>> *****************************************************************
>> Dr. Regina Roth
>> Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
>> - Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe -
>> Jaegerstrasse 22/23
>> D-10117 Berlin
>> Tel.: 030/20370274
>> e-mail: roth@bbaw.de
>> ******************************************************************
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