Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 01

 

Volume 1
Works of Karl Marx

August 1835-March 1843

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General Introduction	xiii
Preface	xxv
Reflections of a Young Man on the Choice of a Profession	3
Letter from Marx to His Father	10
Wild Songs	22
The Fiddler	22
Nocturnal Love	23
Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature	25
Dedication	27
Foreword	29
Contents	32
Part One. Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature in General	34
I. The Subject of the Treatise	34
II. Opinions on the Relationship Between Democritean and Epicurean Physics	36
III. Difficulties Concerning the Identity of the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature	38
Part Two. On the Difference Between Democritean and Epicurean Physics in Detail	46
Chapter One. The Declination of the Atom from the Straight Line	46
Chapter Two. The Qualities of the Atom	53
Chapter Three. "Atouoi apxi and atoua otolxeia"	58
Chapter Four. Time	63
Chapter Five. The Meteors	66
Fragment from the Appendix: Critique of Plutarch's Polemic Against the Theology of Epicurus	74
II. Individual Immortality	74
1. On Religious Feudalism. The Hell of the Populace	74
Notes	77
Part One	77
Part Two	89
Appendix	102
Draft of New Preface	106
Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction	109
Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly. First Article. Debates on Freedom of the Press and Publication of the Proceedings of the Assembly of the Estates	132
The Question of Centralisation in Itself and with Regard to the Supplement to No. 137 of the Rheinische Zeitung	182
The Leading Article in No. 179 of the Kölnische Zeitung	184
The Philosophical Manifesto of the Historical School of Law	203
Yet Another Word on Bruno Bauer und die Akademische Lehrfreiheit by Dr. O. F. Gruppe, Berlin, 1842	211
Communism and the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung	215
Communism and the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung. Editorial Note	222
Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly. Third Article Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood	224
In Connection with the Article "Failures of the Liberal Opposition in Hanover". Editorial Note	264
Communal Reform and the Kölnische Zeitung	266
The Divorce Bill. Editorial Note	274
A Correspondent of the Kölnische Zeitung vs. the Rheinische Zeitung	277
Cabinet Order on the Daily Press	280
Renard's Letter to Oberpraesident von Schaper	282
The Industrialists of Hanover and Protective Tariffs	286
The Attitude of Herwegh and Ruge to "The Free"	287
The Polemical Tactics of the Augsburg Newspaper	288
The Supplement to Nos. 335 and 336 of the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung on the Commissions of the Estates in Prussia	292
The Divorce Bill	307
The Ban on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung	311
Announcement by the Editors of the Rheinische Zeitung of Their Reply to Oberpraesident von Schaper	331
Justification of the Correspondent from the Mosel	332
Polemical Articles Against the Allgemeine Zeitung	359
Marginal Notes to the Accusations of the Ministerial Rescript	361
The Local Election of Deputies to the Provincial Assembly	366
The Rhein-und-Mosel-Zeitung as Grand Inquisitor	370
Stylistic Exercises of the Rhein-und-Mosel-Zeitung	373
Announcement. March 17, 1843	376
Letters
To Carl Friedrich Bachmann. April 6, 1841	379
To Oscar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff. April 7, 1841	380
To Arnold Ruge. February 10, 1842	381
To Arnold Ruge. March 5, 1842	382
To Arnold Ruge. March 20, 1842	383
To Arnold Ruge. April 27, 1842	387
To Arnold Ruge. July 9, 1842	389
To Dagoben Oppenheim. Approximately August 25, 1842	391
To Arnold Ruge. November 30, 1842	393
To Arnold Ruge. January 25, 1843	396
To Arnold Ruge. March 13, 1843	398
From the Preparatory Materials
Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy	403
First Notebook	405
Second Notebook	417
Third Notebook	442
Fourth Notebook	464
Fifth Notebook	479
Sixth Notebook	489
Seventh Notebook	501
Plan of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature	510
Early Literary Experiments
From the Albums of Poems Dedicated to Jenny von Westphalen	517
Concluding Sonnets to Jenny	517
To Jenny	521
To Jenny	521
My World	523
Feelings	525
Transformation	528
A Book of Verse Dedicated by Marx to His Father	531
Contents	533
To My Father	534
Creation	534
Poetry	535
The Forest Spring	535
The Magic Harp	536
The Abduction	537
Yearning	538
The Viennese Ape Theatre in Berlin	539
Sir (G)luck's Armide	540
Terms of Engagement	540
Sentimental Souls	540
Romanticism a la Mode	541
To the Sun of Truth (F. Quednow)	541
On a Certain Knight-Hero	541
To My Neighbour Across the Street	541
Siren Song	542
A Philistine Wonders	545
Mathematical Wisdom	545
The Little Old Man of the Water	546
To the Medical Student	547
Medical Student Psychology	547
Medical Student Metaphysics	547
Medical Student Anthropology	547
Medical Student Ethics	548
The First Elegy of Ovid's Tristia	548
Concluding Sonnet to Jenny	557
The Madwoman	558
Two Songs to Jenny	559
Sought	559
Found	559
Flower King	560
Sea Rock	561
The Awakening	562
Night Thoughts	563
Invocation of One in Despair	563
Three Little Lights	564
The Man in the Moon	565
Lucinda	565
Dialogue with	571
The Last Judgment	572
Two Singers Accompanying Themselves on the Harp	574
Epigrams I-VIII	575
Concluding Epigram on the Puff-Pastry Cook	580
Harmony	580
Distraught	581
Man and Drum	583
Human Pride	584
Evening Stroll	587
Scenes from Oulanem. A Tragedy	588
Song to the Stars	608
Dream Vision	609
The Song of a Sailor at Sea	610
The Magic Ship	611
The Pale Maiden	612
Some Chapters from Scorpion and Felix. A Humoristic Novel	616
Appendices
Birth Certificate	635
Gymnasium Examination Papers Written by Marx	636
The Union of Believers with Christ According to John 15: 1-14, Showing Its Basis and Essence, its Absolute Necessity, and Its Effects	636
Does the Reign of Augustus Deserve to Be Counted Among the Happier Periods of the Roman Empire?	639
Certificate of Maturity for Pupil of the Gymnasium in Trier Karl Marx	643
Father's Letters (November 1835-June 1836)	645
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. November 8, 1835	645
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. November 18-29, 1835	645
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. Beginning of 1836	649
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. March 19, 1836	652
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. About May or June 1836	653
Fathers Consent to Marx's Transfer from Bonn to Berlin University	655
Certificate of Release from Bonn University	657
Father's Letters (November 1836-February 1838)	661
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. November 9, 1886	661
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. December 28, 1836	663
Heinrich Man to Karl Marx. February 3, 1837	667
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. August 12, 1887	674
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. Approximately August 20, 1887	677
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. September 16, 1837	679
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. November 17, 1887	683
Heinrich Marx to Karl Mar. December 9, 1837	685
Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx. February 10, 1838	691
Postscript by Heinrich Marx to Henriette Marx's Letter to Karl Marx, February 15-16, 1838	694
Jenny von Westphalen to Karl Marx [1839-1840]	695
Record Sheet Filled in by Marx	699
Leaving Certificate from Berlin University	703
Recommendatory Reference on the Dissertation of Karl Marx	705
Jenny von Westphalen to Karl Marx. August 10, 1841	707
Cologne Citizens' Petition for the Continuance of the Rheinische Zeitung	710
Minutes of the General Meeting of Shareholders of the Rheinische Zeitung. February 12, 1843	712
Humble Petition from the Shareholders of the Rheinische Zeitung Company for the Continuance of the Rheinische Zeitung	725
Jenny von Westphalen to Karl Marx. March 1843	727
Notes & Indexes
Notes	733
Name Index	761
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature	781
Index of Periodicals	792
Subject Index	795
Illustrations
Page from the gymnasium examination composition "Reflections of a Young Man on the Choice of a Profession"	5
Letter from Karl Marx to his father, November 10-11, 1837	13
Portrait of Karl Marx in his student years	14-15
Members of the Trier Students' Association at Bonn University	14-15
Draft of the preface to Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature	107
Page of the Rheinische Zeitung with Marx's article "Communism and the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung"	217
Prometheus Bound. Allegory on the prohibition of the Rheinische Zeitung	374-75
Page from Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy (Second Notebook)	433
Title page of Marx's Book of Love, with dedication to Jenny	519
Portrait of Jenny von Westphalen	526-27
Karl Marx's Birth Certificate	638-39
Trier	638-39
The house where Karl Marx was born	638-39
Gymnasium where Marx studied (front and view from courtyard)	638-39
Karl Marx's Certificate of Maturity	638-39
Certificate of Release from Bonn University	659
Leaving Certificate from Berlin University	701
Bonn University	702-03
Berlin University	702-03
Karl Marx's Doctor's Diploma	702-03
Prohibition of the Rheinische Zeitung	718-19
Burial Of the Rheinische Zeitung	718-19

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