MEGA-Volume II/12, the First Volume edited in Asia(<SPECIAL ISSUE>Present State of the Philological Researches of Das Kapital: Achievement of the Redaction and Publication of MEGA^2)

Abstract

The MEGA(Marx-Engels-Gesammtausgabe; Marx-Engels complete works) edit group started its work in Sendai in January, 1998. The Sendai group has been editing the volume 12 of section II of MEGA that contains "Redaktions-manuskript zu dem zweiten Buch des Kapital von Friedrich Engels (1884-1885)"(the editor's manuscript of Frederick Engels for 'Das Kapital' volume 2 (1884-1885)). After publishing the third edition of 'Das Kapital' volume 1 (1883) Engels edited this manuscript from 7 different manuscripts by Marx in 1884-1885 and made a fair copy from it and published 'Das Kapital' volume 2 (1885). We publish the former in volume 12 of section II of MEGA in November 2005 in Berlin and the latter, 'Das Kapital' volume 2 (1885), in volume 13 of section II of MEGA in 2007. The international conference is held in November 21-26 2005 in Kyoto and Tokyo in celebration of the publication of the volume 12. The German Ambassador Mr. Henrik Schmiegelow delivered his congratulatory address at the ceremony of this conference in Tokyo. This thesis introduces the feature and originality in this volume 12 of MEGA edit.