The Dept of Sociology at Maynooth, together with the Depts of English
and Anthropology, has just purchased the new electronic edition of the Marx and
Engels Collected Works (in English) for the Maynooth library. Originally
published by Lawrence and Wishart from 1977 – 2005, these 50 volumes constitute
the largest available collection of translations of Marx and Engels. Covering
the period from 1835 – 1895, the collection includes all their major
theoretical, political and historical works, their journalistic writings and
several volumes of correspondence. Overviews of the contents are available here
and here.
The electronic edition is fully searchable, an important step forward in
relation to Marx and Engels’ voluminous and complex work.
The founder of the German SPD, Wilhelm Liebknecht, recalled:
Marx went (to the
British Museum library) daily and he urged us to go too. Study! Study! That was the categoric injunction that we
heard often enough from him. Marx was a stern teacher – he not only urged us to
study, he made sure that we did so.
Dr Eamonn Slater of the Dept of Sociology comments: “With this magnificent new
electronic resource we here in Maynooth are provided with an amazing
opportunity to study how Marx and Engels studied the real world, not just to
interpret that world but crucially to change it.”
Maynooth staff and students can access this collection in various ways, including this link, the “eBooks and
eJournals“ page or Project
Muse’s site (from outside Maynooth you have to log
in for off-campus access first.) The complete text can be searched using
the “Search inside this series” box.
