Authorship verification for the anonymous articles in Bruno Bauer's Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. Integrating natural language processing results in the available stylistic, thematic and contextual analyses

The Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. Monatsschrift (ALZ) was a short-lived monthly edited by Bruno Bauer and published between December 1843 and October 1844. Featuring philosophical essays and articles, in-depth reviews, correspondence, and short stories, the journal was mainly launched to cover the new developments in German philosophy. More particularly, with Bruno Bauer being one of the leading thinkers of the Young Hegelian movement at that time, it was established as vehicle for a specific current of Young Hegelian philosophy. In spite of its crucial role in the transformation of German philosophy during the Vormärz (1830-1848), the ALZ has remained relatively unexplored. The project's main intention is to change this situation by bringing support to a new scientific edition of the ALZ. The ALZ includes 31 anonymous articles. This means that the authentic authorship of almost half of the ALZ's articles was not revealed in the original publication. With respect to the new ALZ edition, the project's first objective is to provide extensive annotations to each of these articles, either supporting a precise authorship attribution or a lack thereof. The specific challenge is to strenghten new and existing stylistic, thematic and contextual analyses with natural language processing results. The project's second objective is to develop a novel and well-researched interpretation of the philosophical role and meaning of the ALZ, focusing on the journal's major themes and describing its proper part in the transformation of Young Hegelian philosophy.

Keywords:VALIDATION, MARXISM, YOUNG HEGELIANISM

Disciplines:Theory and methodology of philosophy