Collected Works, Vol. 2: Engels: 1838-1842

702 Pages·1975·30.053 MB·English

by  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels

MARX & ENGELS
COLLECTED WORKS
VOLUME 2
Frederick Engels 1838-42
KARL MARX
FREDERICK ENGELS
Volume
2
Frederick Engels 1838-42
2010
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Contents
Preface XIII
FREDERICK ENGELS
WORKS
August 1838-December 1842
1. The Bedouin 3
2. To the Enemies 5
3. Book Wisdom 6
4. Letters from Wuppertal 7
5. To the Bremen Courier 26
6. Open Letter to Dr. Runkel 27
7. F. W. Krummacher's Sermon on Joshua 29
8. From Elberfeld 30
9. German Volksbücher 32
10. Karl Beck 41
11. Retrograde Signs of the Times 47
12. Platen 53
13. On the Invention of Printing > 55
14. Joel Jacoby 63
15. Requiem for the German Adelszeitung 66
16. Modern Literary Life 71
I. Karl Gutzkow as Dramatist 71
II. Modern Polemics 81
17. On Anastasius Grün 94
18. Landscapes 95
19. Reports from Bremen 102
Theatre. Publishing Festival 102
Literature 104
VI Contents
20. An Evening 107
21. Reports from Bremen 112
An Outing to Bremerhaven 112
22. Two Sermons by F. W. Krummacher 121
23. On the Death of Immermann 123
24. Reports from Bremen 126
Rationalism and .Pietism 126
Shipping Project. Theatre. Manoeuvres 128
25. St. Helena 131
26. Siegfried's Native Town 132
27. Ernst Moritz Arndt 137
28. Night Ride 151
29. The Emperor's Procession 153
30. Reports from Bremen 155
Ecclesiastical Controversy 155
Relation to Literature. Music 158
Low German 159
31. Immermann's Memorabilien 161
32. Wanderings in Lombardy 170
I. Over the Alpsl 170
33. Schelling on Hegel 181
34. Schelling and Revelation 189
35. Schelling, Philosopher in Christ 241
36. North- and South-German Liberalism 265
37. Diary of a Guest Student 268
I -.-, 268
II 270
38. Rhenish Festivals 274
39. Marginalia to Texts of Our Time 277
40. Polemic Against Leo 281
41. Alexander Jung, "Lectures on Modern German Literature" 284
42. Participation in the Debates of the Baden Chamber of Deputies 298
43. The Liberalism of the Spenersche Zeitung 300
44. The End of the Criminalistische Zeitung 302
45. On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws 304
46. The Insolently Threatened Yet Miraculously Rescued Bible 313
Canto the First 315
Canto the Second 326
Canto the Third 334
Canto the Fourth 344
47. F. W. Andrea and the High Nobility of Germany 352
48. Berlin Miscellany 353
49. Centralisation and Freedom 355
50. Frederick William IV, King of Prussia 360
Contents VII
51. The English View of the Internal Crises 368
52. The Internal Crises 370
53. The Position of the Political Parties 375
54. The Condition of the Working Class in England 378
55. The Corn Laws 380
LETTERS
August 1838-August 1842
1838
1. To Marie Engels, August 28-29 385
2. To Friedrich and Wilhelm Graeber, September 1 388
3. To Marie Engels, September 11 390
4. To Friedrich and Wilhelm Graeber, September 17-18 392
5. To Marie Engels, October 9-10 399
6. To Marie Engels, November 13 402
7. To Marie Engels, end of December 403
1839
8. To Marie Engels, January 7 405
9. To Friedrich Graeber, January 20 407
10. To Friedrich Graeber, February 19 414
11. To Hermann Engels, March 11-12 417
12. To Marie Engels, March 12 419
13. To Friedrich Graeber, April 8-9 420
14. To Marie Engels, April 10 423
15. To Friedrich Graeber, about April 23-May 1 425
16. To Marie Engels, April 28 437
17. To Wilhelm Graeber, about April 28-30 442
18. To Marie Engels, May 23 447
19. To Wilhelm Graeber, May 24-June 15 448
20. To Friedrich Graeber, June 15 453
21. To Friedrich Graeber, July 12-27 457
22. To Friedrich Graeber, after July 27 463
23. To Wilhelm Graeber, July 30 464
24. To Marie Engels, September 28 469
25. To Wilhelm Graeber, October 8 471
26. To Wilhelm Graeber, October 20-21 474
27. To Friedrich Graeber, October 29 476
28. To Wilhelm Graeber, November 13-20 481
29. To Friedrich Graeber, December 9, 1839-February 5, 1840 487
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1840
30. To Levin Schücking, June 18 494
31. To Levin Schücking, July 2 496
32. To Marie Engels, July 7-9 498
33. To Marie Engels, August 4 501
34. To Marie Engels, August 20-25 503
35. To Marie Engels, September 18-19 507
36. To Marie Engels, October 29 510
37. To Wilhelm Graeber, November 20 513
38. To Marie Engels, December 6-9 516
39. To Marie Engels, December 21-28 519
1841
40. To Marie Engels, February 18 523
41. To Friedrich Graeber, February 22 525
42. To Marie Engels, March 8-11 528
43. To Marie Engels, April5 531
44. To Marie Engels, about the beginning of May 532
45. To Marie Engels, about the end of August 533
46. To Marie Engels, September 9 534
1842
47. To Marie Engels, January 5-6 536
48. To Marie Engels, April 14-16 539
49. To Marie Engels 542
50. To Arnold Ruge, June 15 , 543
51. To Marie Engels, July 2 544
52. To Arnold Ruge, July 26 545
53. To Marie Engels, August 2-8 546
EARLY LITERARY EXPERIMENTS
1833-1837
1. To My Grandfather 553
2. Poem, 1836 554
3. Poem, probably written early in 1837 555
4. A Pirate Tale 557
5. The Single Combat of Eteocles and Polynices 572
APPENDICES
1. Birth Certificate of Friedrich Engels 577
2. Friedrich Engels Senior to Karl Snethlage, December 1, 1820 578
Contents IX
3. Baptism Certificate of Friedrich Engels 580
4. Friedrich Engels Senior to His Wife Elise, August 27, 1835 581
5. School-Leaving Reference for Prima Pupil Friedrich Engels 584
6. Friedrich Engels Senior to Karl Snethlage, October 5, 1842 586
7. Certificate of Conduct for the One-Year Volunteer Friedrich Engels 588
NOTES AND INDEXES
Notes 591
Name Index 621
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature 646
Index of Periodicals 662
Subject Index 669
ILLUSTRATIONS
Frederick Engels in 1839 8-9
Pages 208 and 209 of the Gutenbergs-Album containing M. J. Quin-
tana's poem A la invenciôn de la imprenta and Engels' translation .... 57
Title-page of Engels' pamphlet Schelling and Revelation 193
Title-page of Engels' pamphlet Schelling, Philosopher in Christ 245
Title-page of Engels' pamphlet The Insolently Threatened Yet Miracu
lously Rescued Bible 317
Engels' caricature of "The Free", the Berlin group of Young
Hegelians 329
Frederick Engels in the 1840s 376-77
Facsimile of Engels' letter to Wilhelm Graeber of April 28-30,
1839 440-41
Facsimile of the beginning of Engels' letter to Marie Engels of
December 6-9, 1840 520-21
Facsimile of the end of Engels' letter to Marie Engels of December
6-9, 1840 520-21
Cover of Engels' history exercise book 569
Drawing by Engels from his history exercise book 570
Engels' mother and father 552-53
The house in Barmen where Engels was born 552-53
The gymnasium in Elberfeld where Engels studied 584-85

TRANSLATORS:
ROBERT BROWNING: The Single Combat of Eteocles
and Polynias
JACK COHEN: Letters 1-25, 41-53, and Appendix 4
RICHARD DIXON: Appendix 6
CLEMENS DUTT: Works 4, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19,
41, 42, 49-55, and Appendix 2
ALEX MILLER: Poems
BARBARA RUHEMANN: Works 6-10, 16, 21, 22, 24,
26, 27, 30-40, 43-45, 47, 48, Letters 26-40,
and Appendices 1, 3, 5 and 7
CHRISTOPHER UPWARD: A Pirate Tale