[AI Summary]: Edward Baring, Associate Professor at Princeton University, discusses his innovative “Citing Marx” project with the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) that tracks published citations of the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital in the German socialist periodical Die Neue Zeit (1891-1918). Working with CDH’s humanities research software engineers, the project develops computational tools to identify and analyze how Marx’s key works were quoted and interpreted during crucial socialist debates, with plans to create reusable software for tracking transnational intellectual history. The project connects to Baring’s forthcoming book “Vulgar Marxism” and aims to reveal how ideas traveled across borders and which parts of Marx’s writings were picked up or neglected by later writers.
- Project: Citing Marx
- Institution: Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University
- Principal Investigator: Edward Baring
- Focus: Digital citation tracking of Marx’s works in historical periodicals
- Period Analyzed: 1891-1918 (Die Neue Zeit)
- Goal: Creating reusable software for citation tracking across journals and languages
- Related Book: “Vulgar Marxism” (University of Chicago Press, December 2025)