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Marx and Engels On Literature and Art
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Source: Marx Engels On Literature and Art. Progress Publishers. 1976; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.
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Preface
Materialist Conception of the History of Culture
Social Being and Social Consciousness
1. Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 2. The German Ideology
Natural Conditions and Development of Culture Landscapes
Against Vulgarisation of Historical Materialism
1. Engels to Joseph Bloch. September 21-22 1890 2. Engels to W. Borgius. January 25 1894 3. Engels to Conrad Schmidt. October 27 1890 4. Engels to Joseph Bloch. September 21-22 1890 5. Engels to Conrad Schmidt. August 5 1890
Engels About Mehring’s The Lessing Legend
1. Engels to Franz Mehring. April 11 1893 2. Engels to Karl Kautsky. June 1 1893 3. Engels to Franz Mehring. July 14 1893
Class Relations and Class Ideology
1. The German Ideology 2. The Communist Manifesto
Scientific and Vulgar Conceptions of Class Ideology
Engels to Paul Ernst
Historical Continuity and Its Contradictions
1. The German Ideology 2. Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Uneven Character of Historical Development and Questions of Art
Introduction to the Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58
General Problems of Art
Ideological Content and Realism
1. Engels to Minna Kautsky, 26 November 1885 2. Engels to Margaret Harkness, beginning April 1888 3. Review of A Chenu, Les Conspirateurs and L. de la Hodde, La Renaissance de la République, Feb 1848
The Tragic and the Comic in Real History
1. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Introduction 2. Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 3. Leading article in Kölnische Zeitung No. 179 4. Engels to Marx, 4 September 1870 5. Engels to August Bebel, 7 July 1892
Problems of Revolutionary Tragedy
On Ferdinand Lassalle’s Drama Franz von Sickingen
1. Marx to Ferdinand Lassalle, 19 April 1859 2. Engels to Ferdinand Lassalle, 18 May 1859
Miscellaneous Items
Language and Literature
1. Ideas do not exist separately from language, from Grundrisse 2. Materials on the History of France and Germany, Engels
Improvisation and Poetry
New-York Daily Tribune, 7 March 1853, Marx
On Literary Style
1. On Proudhon, Letter to J B Schweizer, 24 January 1865 2. Marx To Engels, 31 July 1865 3. Engels to Eduard Bernstein, 12-13 July 1883 4. Engels to Sorge, 29 April 1886
On Literary Polemics
1. On Brentano’s Polemic Against Marx over Alleged Misquotation 2. Refugee Literature, IV 3. Engels to Marx, 25-26 October 1847 4. Engels to Eduard Bernstein, 12 March 1881 5. Engels to Eduard Bernstein, 29 June 1884
On Translation
1. Engels To Marx, 23 September 1852 2. Engels To Marx, 29 November 1873 3. Engels To Friedrich Sorge, 29 June 1883 4. Engels To Eduard Bernstein, 5 February 1884 5. How Not to Translate Marx, Engels, The Commonweal, 1885 6. Engels To Laura Lafargue, 16 November 1889 7. Engels To Laura Lafargue, 8 January 1890
Additional References On Translation of Marx’s works
8. Engels To Marx, 24 June 1867 9. Engels To Sorge, 20 June 1882 10. Engels To August Bebel, 18 August 1886 11. Engels To Laura Lafargue, 13 September 1886 12. Engels To Laura Lafargue, 28 April 1886 13. Engels To Sorge, 29 June 1888
Art in Class Society
The Origin of Art
Historical Development of the Artistic Sense
1. Private Property and Communism, 1844 2. The Division of Labour and Human Needs, 1844 3. Private Property and Communism, 1844
The Role of Labour in the Origin of Art, from Part Played by Labour Artistic Creation and Aesthetic Perception, from Critique Political Economy
Social Division of Labour
Division of Labour and Social Consciousness Estrangement of Labour and Condition of Workers in Capitalist Society
Money and World Culture
The Distorting Power of Money
Capitalism and Spiritual Production
Relation of Art to Capitalist Mode of Production, Theories of Surplus Value Bourgeois Taste and Its Evolution, Engels To Laura Lafargue, 14 January 1884
The Work of the Artist in Capitalist Society
1. Theories of Surplus Value, Chapter 4 2. Productive Labour, Economic writings of 1864 3. Theories of Surplus Value, Addenda
Freedom of the Press and of Artistic Creation
1. Debates on Freedom of the Press, Marx 1842 2. Debates on Freedom of the Press, Marx 1842 3. Debates on Freedom of the Press, Marx 1842 4. Debates on Freedom of the Press, Marx 1842 5. Stamp Duty on Newspapers, Neue Oder Zeitung, 30 March 1855
Asceticism and Enjoyment, from German Ideology Work and Play, from Capital, Volume I Bourgeois Civilisation and Crime, from Theories of Surplus Value, Addendum
Historical Mission of the Working Class
The Proletariat and Wealth, from The Holy Family
The Working Class and the Progressive Development of Society
1. Speech at Anniversary of The People’s Paper, Marx 2. The Housing Question, Engels
The Working Class and Culture
1. Letters from London, Engels 2. The Condition of England, Engels 3. Letters from London, Engels 4. The Condition of the Working Class in England, Engels 5. Marginal Notes on “The King of Prussia.”, Marx 6. Note on Eccarius’ article on Tailoring in London, Marx
Proletarian Revolution and the Vandalism of the Bourgeoisie
1. The Civil War in France 2. Notes from Newspapers
Art and Communism
Criticism of Egalitarian Communism
1. Private Property and Communism, 1844 2. The Peasant War in Germany, Engels 1850
Individuality and Society
1. From “Saint Max,” German Ideology 2. From “Saint Max,” German Ideology 3. From “Proletarians and Communism,” German Ideology
The Kingdom of Freedom and Material Labour
1. From The Grundrisse, Marx 1857 2. From Capital Volume III
History of Social Thought, Literature and Art Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance
Antiquity
The Dawn of Human Culture, from Early German History, Engels Beginnings of Mythology, Conspectus of Morgan’s Ancient History, Marx Epic Tradition of the Semites, Engels to Marx. approx. 26 May 1853
Ancient Greek Society in Homer’s Poems
1. Origins of the Family, Chapter 1, Engels 1884 2. Origins of the Family, Chapter 4, Engels 1884
Greek Tragedy
1. Origins of the Family, Preface, Engels 1884 2. Conspectus of Morgan’s Ancient History, Marx
Position of Women in Greece, from Origins of the Family, Chapter 2
Ancient Slavery and World Culture
1. Anti-Dühring, (Theory of Force) Engels 2. Greetings to Socialists in Sicily, 26 September 1894, Engels
The Plastic Element in Greek Art
1. Marx’s Doctoral Dissertation 2. Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy, Marx 1839
Greek Enlightenment
1. Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy, Marx 1839 2. Marx’s Doctoral Dissertation
Religion and Culture in the Ancient World, Marx 1842 Decline of the Ancient World, from Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy
Lucretius Carus
1. Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy 2. Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy
Horace, Engels to Marx, 21 December 1866 Persius’ Satire, from Bruno Bauer and Early Christianity Lucian, from History of Early Christianity, Engels 1894
Middle Ages
Germanic Culture, Early German History, Engels Love in Literature of Antiquity & Middle Ages, from Origins of the Family Wagner and Germanic Epos, from Origins of the Family, Chapter 2 Legend of Siegfried and the German Revolutionary Movement, Engels 1840
Ancient Irish Literature
1. History of Ireland, Engels 1870 2. History of Ireland, Engels 1870 3. Manuscripts on the History of England and Ireland, Engels 1870 4. Notes for the preface to a collection of Irish Songs, Engels July 1870
Ancient Scandinavian Epos, History of Ireland, Engels 1870 Early Medieval Danish Poetry, Engels to Marx, June 20 1860 The Chanson de Roland, On the History of France and Germany, Engels
Provençal Literature
1. On the Polish Question, Marx 1848 2. Chronological Extracts, from Schlosser’s World History
Chivalrous Love Poetry, from Origins of the Family, Chapter 2 Peasant Equalitarian Ideas in England, from Schlosser’s World History German Volksbücher, Engels 1848
Renaissance
End of the Ancient World to End of the Middle Ages, Dialectics of Nature
Italian Culture from Dante to Garibaldi
1. Preface to Capital Volume III 2. Affairs in Prussia, Marx in New-York Tribune, 15 October 1860
Dante, Preface to Italian Edition of the Communist Manifesto, Engels 1893 Petrarch, Wanderings in Lombardy, Over the Alps, Engels 1893 Boccaccio, The Peasant War in Germany, Engels 1850 Great Renaissance, from Dialectics of Nature, Engels 1883 Titian, Engels to Marx, 20 May 1857 Grobian Literature of the Reformation Period, from Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality, Marx 1847 Significance of Reformation, On History of France and Germany, Engels
Thomas More
1. Capital, Volume I, Chapter 27 2. Capital, Volume I, Chapter 28 3. Preparatory materials for Anti-Dühring 4. Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom, Engels 1890
Shakespeare
1. War Debate in Parliament, New-York Tribune, 17 March 1854 2. Engels To Marx, 10 December 1873 3. from The German Ideology 4. Marx To Engels, 27 February 1861
Calderón
1. Revolutionary Spain, Marx 1854 2. Marx To Engels, 3 May 1854 3. Herr Vogt, Marx 1860
Cervantes
1. The New Martial Law Charter, Marx 1849 2. Capital, Volume I, Chapter 1
History of Social Thought and Literature The Modern Period
Three Unities of Classical Drama, Marx to Lassalle, 22 July 1861 La Rochefoucauld, Marx To Engels. 26 June 1869 Historic Significance of the Enlightenment, Anti-Dühring
The Materialism of the Encyclopedists
1. Socialism: Utopian & Scientific 2. The Holy Family
The Enlightenment and Dialectics, Anti-Dühring Utilitarian Philosophy of the Enlightenment from The German Ideology
Voltaire
1. Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann. 12 October 1868 2. What have the Working Classes to do with Poland?, Engels, 1866
Diderot
1. Ludwig Feuerbach 2. Marx to Engels 15 April 1869 3. Engels To Marx. 16 April 1869
Rousseau
1. from Anti-Dühring 2. On Proudhon, Letter to J B Schweizer, 24 January 1865
Sentimentalism as a Reaction to the Enlightenment, Moralising
Criticism, Marx 1847
Crisis of Enlightenment Ideals, Socialism: Utopian & Scientific
>From the Enlightenment to Romanticism, Marx To Engels. 25 March 1868
Criticism of Progress from the point of view of the Past, Communist Manifesto
Petty-Bourgeois Criticism of Capitalism, Communist Manifesto
Restoration Writers, On the Polish Question
French Literature
Abbé Prévost from Dialectics of Nature Chateaubriand
1. Marx To Engels. 26 October 1854 2. Marx To Engels. 30 November 1873
Alexandre Dumas. Marx To Engels. 23 February 1851 Lamartine
1. Marx To Engels. 18 March 1848 2. Neue Rheinische Zeitung. 22 October 1848 3. Democratic Panslavism, Engels 1849
Victor Hugo
1. Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Preface 2. Engels To Lafargue. 5 December 1892 3. Engels To Marx. 13 September 1870 4. Notes on the War, Pall Mall Gazette, 13 October 1870
Eugène Sue, Continental Movements, Engels
>From Critical Analysis of Sue’s Mystères de Parts
1. The Holy Family 2. The Holy Family 3. The Holy Family
Balzac
1. Capital, Volume I 2. Capital, Volume III 3. Engels To Laura Lafargue. 13 December 1883 4. Engels To Marx. 4 October 1852 5. Marx To Engels. 25 February 1867
Pierre Dupont, Capital, Volume I Arthur Ranc, Engels To Marx. 22 October 1869 Renan
1. Marx To Engels. 20 January 1864 2. Engels To Victor Adler. 19 August 1892
Zola. Engels To Laura Lafargue. 15 June 1887 Maupassant. Engels To Laura Lafargue. 2 February 1887
English and Irish Literature
Daniel Defoe
1. Engels To Karl Kautsky. 20 September 1884 2. Capital, Volume I
Swift. Manuscripts on the History of England and Ireland, Engels 1870 Pope, Herr Vogt, Marx 1860 Shelley and Byron, Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Neue Zeit, 1888 Walter Scott. Origins of the Family, Chapter 1, Engels 1884 William Cobett’s Social Writings. Marx, New-York Tribune, 22 July 1853 English Working-Class Poet Mead. Condition of the Working Class, Engels Thomas Carlyle
1. The Condition of England, Engels 1844 2. Latter-Day Pamphlets edited by Thomas Carlyle, Marx and Engels
English Realists of the Mid-Nineteenth Century, The English Middle Class, Marx. New-York Tribune, 1 August 1854 Carleton. Marx To Engels. 14 August 1879 Bernard Shaw. Engels To Kautsky. 4 September 1892 Aveling
1. Engels To Paul Lafargue. 17 May 1889 2. Engels To Konrad Schmidt. 9 December 1889
William Morris. Engels To Laura Lafargue. 23 November 1884
German Literature
German Culture from the Mid-17th to the Early 19th Century
1. Notes on Germany, Engels 2. The State of Germany, Engels in Northern Star, 25 October 1845
Schiller. Shortcomings of His Poetry, from Ludwig Feuerbach, Chapter 2, 1886 Goethe
1. Ludwig Feuerbach, Chapter 1, 1886 2. Anti-Dühring, 1877 3. Ludwig Feuerbach, Chapter 1, 1886 4. The Condition of England, Engels 5. Engels To Marx. 15 January 1847 6. Karl Grün, German Socialism in Verse and Prose, Engels 1847
Heine
1. Ludwig Feuerbach, Chapter 1, 1886 2. Rapid Progress of Communism in Germany, Engels 1844 3. Engels Remark on Heinrich Heine Supplement 4. Marx Heinrich Heine. 12 January 1845 5. Marx Heinrich Heine. 5 April 1846 6. Engels To Marx. 14 January 1848
“Young Germany.” Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany, 1852 Alexander Jung. “Lectures on Modern German Literature”, Engels 1842 German, or “True,” Socialism
1. The Communist Manifesto 2. The German Ideology
Karl Beck, the Poetry of True Socialism
1. German Socialism in Verse and Prose 2. German Socialism in Verse and Prose 3. German Socialism in Verse and Prose 4. German Socialism in Verse and Prose
Gottfried Kinkel
1. Heroes of the Exile 2. Heroes of the Exile
Freiligrath
1. Reappearance of Neue Rheinische Zeitung 2. The True Socialists, Engels 1847 3. Marx To Ferdinand Freiligrath. 27 December 1851 4. Marx To Joseph Weydemeyer. 16 January 1852 5. Engels To Jenny Marx. 22 December 1859 6. Marx To Engels. 17 July 1869 7. Marx To Engels. 22 August 1870 8. Marx To Engels. 2 September 1870 9. Marx To Sigfrid Meyer. 21 January 1871
Weerth. “Song of the Apprentices”, Engels 1883
Johann Philipp Becker
1. Engels to Bebel. 8 October 1886 2. Johann Philipp Becker, Engels 1886 3. Marx To Johann Philipp Becker. 9 April 1860
Henryk Ibsen. Engels To Paul Ernst
Russian Literature
The Russian Language
1. Marx To Sigfrid Meyer. 21 January 1871 2. Refugee Literature, Engels 1874 3. Engels To Vera Zasulich. 6 March 1884
The Lay of Igor’s Host: Marx To Engels. 5 March 1856 Lomonosov. Slavic Languages and Philology. Notes on Lomonsov, Engels Derzhavin. The War on the Danube. Engels in New-York Tribune, 25 July 1854 Pushkin. Engels To Nikolai Danielson. 29-31 October 1891
Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov
1. Refugee Literature, Engels 1874 2. Engels To Eugenie Papritz. 26 June 1884 3. Marx To Nikolai Danielson. 9 November 1871
Chernyshevsky as a Scholar and Critic. Capital Afterword to 2nd German Edition Chernyshevsky and the Russian Village Commune
1. Marx to the Editorial Board of Otechestvenniye Zapiski 2. Afterword to On Social Relations in Russia, Engels
Chernyshevsky as a Revolutionary
1. The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International, 1872 2. Marx To Engels. 5 July 1870 3. Marx To Nikolai Danielson. 12 December 1872 4. Marx To Nikolai Danielson. 18 January 1873 5. Engels To Nikolai Danielson. 10 June 1890
Shchedrin. Engels To Nikolai Danielson. 19 February 1887 Flerovsky. Marx To Engels. 10 February 1870
Revolutionary and Satirical Folk Poetry of the Past
Herr Tidmann. Engels To Marx. 27 January 1865 “Herr Tidmann”. Old Danish Folk Song. Engels 1864 Conspectus of Kostomarov’s Revolt of Stekna Razin, Marx The Vicar of Bray, Engels August 1882 German Revolutionary Songs. Engels To Hermann Schlüter. 15 May 1885 Weavers’ Song. Marginal Notes on “The King of Prussia.”, Marx
Songs of the German Revolution of 1848
1. The Role of Force in History, Engels 1887 2. Campaign for the Imperial Constitution, Engels 1850
Satirical Folk Song Against Bonaparte. Engels To Marx. 7 February 1856
Confessions of Marx and Engels Karl Marx. Confessions Frederick Engels. Confessions
>From Reminiscences of Marx and Engels
>From Reminiscences of Marx
Paul Lafargue
1. Literature 2. Novels 3. Family
Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Karl Marx Franzisca Kugelmann. Small Traits of Marx’s Great Character Anselmo Lorenzo. Reminiscences of the First International
>From Reminiscences of Engels
N. S. Rusanov. My Acquaintance with Engels Fanni Kravchinskaya. Reminiscences
Critical Articles by Jenny Marx
1. From London’s Theatre World 2. The London Season 3. Shakespearean Studies in England 4. Shakespeare’s Richard III in London’s Lyceum Theatre 5. From the London Theatre