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The German Ideology as a 'book' dates only from the early 1920s and 1930s. The opening 'chapter' 'I. Feuerbach' was fac- titiously constructed to solve the problem posed by Marx's enig- matic reference in 1859 to 'self- clarification'. This was in auto- biographical passages detailing his 'outlook', termed by Engels the 'materialist interpretation of history'. Factual evidence pre- sented here makes this framing untenable. 'The German ideol- ogy' manuscript materials of 1845-6 are best studied -- not as a 'smooth text' of the 'last hand' -- but as a 'variant-rich' text that allows access to a 'laboratory' where Marx and Engels were learning to think as they did. Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively for many years on Marx, Engels and Marxism, and on sex, gender and sexuality. His translations in Karl Marx: Later Political Writings (CUP, 1996) are the first new and original ones since the 19th century, and he is currently working on a jointly authored book on Marx's and Engels' manuscripts of 1845-46 that shows how they worked to generate their "outlook" on history and politics. Local- Global Colloquium Department of Political Science The "German Ideology" Never Took Place Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:30-5:00 PM Saunders 624, The Friedman Room Refreshments will be Provided
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The German Ideology as a 'book' dates only from the early 1920s and 1930s. The opening 'chapter' 'I. Feuerbach' was fac-titiously constructed to solve the problem posed by Marx's enig-matic reference in 1859 to 'self-clarification'. This was in auto-biographical passages detailing his 'outlook', termed by Engels the 'materialist interpretation of history'. Factual evidence pre-sented here makes this framing untenable. 'The German ideol-ogy' manuscript materials of 1845-6 are best studied -- not as a 'smooth text' of the 'last hand' -- but as a 'variant-rich'
text that allows access to a 'laboratory' where Marx and Engels were learning to think as they did.
Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively for many years on Marx, Engels and Marxism, and on sex, gender and sexuality. His translations in Karl Marx: Later Political Writings (CUP, 1996) are the first new and original ones since the 19th century, and he is currently working on a jointly authored book on Marx's and Engels' manuscripts of 1845-46 that shows how they worked to generate their "outlook" on history and politics.
Local- Global Colloquium Department of Political Science
The "German Ideology" Never Took Place
Tuesday, February 21, 20123:30-5:00 PM
Saunders 624, The Friedman Room
Refreshments will be Provided
