Against the Current

Note to translators

This page contains, in grey cells, all the corrections made in the Pimlico edition (1997) and the Princeton edition (2001), except for the updating of the bibliography. The additional corrections in pink cells should be made in translations. If the bibliography is to be included in translations, the version to be used is the full, permanently updated one on this site. In addition, in cases where essays from AC have appeared in PSM, these latter, later, versions should be used if possible, plus any relevant corrections to PSM listed on this site. The essays in question are:

The Counter-Enlightenment
The Originality of Machiavelli
The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities
Herzen and his Memoirs
Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power
(see also note on pp. 333–55 below)

*Page*	*Line*	*Correction / For*	*Read*
i–v		alter as required, including a reference in the list of contents to any addition on xii
ix–xi		original 1979 preface replaced by new preface
xii		add supplementary ‘Note’ if required
2	13	sophist	sophists
13	6 up	economists, sophisters	sophisters, economists
20	10 up	origianl	original
25	n. 1, 5	Laurence	Lawrence
29	n. 1	cit., p. 25	cit. (p. 25
34		repair rule above notes
41	6 up	namelv	namely
49	8	Taci tusor	Tacitus or
54	19	Duke	Duke of
56	19	virtu	virtù
60	n. 2, 1	Patrizzi’s	Patrizi’s
66	11	permanent	a permanent
	14	appeals,	appeals
	n. 1	220–24	220–4
72	n. 1, last	Mandragola	Mandragola, trans. Anne and Henry Paolucci
76	11	remove indent
77	9–10	Peri-lean	Peri-clean
85	10	Patrizzi	Patrizi
	18–19	in the century,	still,
89	8	Chatelet	Châtelet
	10	Egil	Égil
	11	Ortugul	Ortogul
90	11	Ixartes	Iaxartes
102	4	impossible	imaginative
103	7	grossi	orribili
107	4–3 up	and into which [...] to such a language	a language into which [...] to it
121	8 up	Patrizzi	Patrizi
123	17	grossi	orribili
144	2 up	good, beautiful	beautiful, good
	last	move to 145
		move folio up one line (spread runs short)
145	n. 1	Quoted ... dissimilar to a	Mes pensées 410 (2062): vol. 2, p. 158. There is a similar
		move folio up one line (spread runs short)
148	2 up	... out of	Out of
	last	can ever be made’	was ever made’,
167	n. 1, 3	; letters from 1751–86	, which
	5–7	(Wiesbaden ... Schriften).	(Wiesbaden and Frankfurt, 1955–79) (hereafter Briefwechsel).
167	12	speaking)	speaking;
169	n. 1	Schriften ... 668.	Letter to Jacobi, 22–4 May 1788, Briefwechsel, vol. 7, p. 487.
171	12	a letter	letters
	13	Hume	[Hume]
	15	[Glaube] ... I	[Glaube]’ and ‘I
	n. 1	Schriften ... 506.	Letters of 22 and 27 April, Briefwechsel, vol. 7, pp. 155, 167.
173	n. 3	Briefwechsel,	Letter of 27 July 1759, Briefwechsel,
174	n. 1	27–30 ... 517.	27 April to 3 May 1787, Briefwechsel, vol. 7, p. 176.
177	6	add note cue 1 after: ridiculous.’
	21	change note cue 1 to 2
	9 up	change note cue 2 to 3
		insert new note 1: Letter to Jacobi, 16 January 1785, ibid., vol. 5, p. 326.
	n. 1	becomes n. 2
	n. 2	becomes n. 3, now sharing a line with n. 2
180	n. 2	move to share line with n. 1
	n. 3	Schriften ... 506	Letter of 27 April 1787, Briefwechsel, vol. 7, p. 167.
	n. 4	ibid., p. 232.	Letter of 25 February 1786, ibid., vol. 6, p. 281.
183	6	das Dasein	Dasein
	7	add note cue after: enthüllen;
	9	delete note cue
		insert new note 1: Letter to Hamann, 16 June 1783, Brief wechsel, vol. 5, p. 56.
	nn. 1–4	become nn. 2–5, and nn. 4 and 5 share a line
187	3 up	ideas,	ideas
207	11–15	echoes ... theme.	anticipates Émile Faguet’s bitter epigram about Rousseau’s dictum that men who are born free are nevertheless everywhere in chains, ‘it would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass’. Herzen uses a similar reductio ad absurdum.
212	n. 1	russkoy	russkoi
214	18	founded the Christian Social	co-founded the Conservative
222	2	all; heretical	all. Heretical
	3	way to achieve	instrument for achieving
	6	by the conscious will	human will – the conscious resolve
	7	one had	had
	13–12 up	the violent expropriation of the property-owning classes,	violent expropriation,
223	1	transformed	transmuted
	7–8	Socialist-Revolutionaries	socialist revolutionaries
238	11	a Samuel	Samuel
245	n. 2	replace over-inked character
249	n. 1, 2 up	1931),	1931)
269		whole page reset
271	n. 1	494, 495	495, 494
302	n. 1	Osservazione	Osservazioni
305	15 up	or of	or from
306		replace damaged folio
309	n. 1	metaphysique	métaphysique
327	n. 1, last	Abela	Arbela
333–55		[extensive further corrections were made to this essay when it appeared in Partisan Review: these corrections were incorporated in the version of the essay in PSM, and should also be incorporated in AC in the event of resetting or translation]
343	11	life,	life
347	7 up	gibberish and cant	cant and gibberish
353	5 up	From	Out of
	4 up	can ever be	was ever
355	7	state.	state. And this holds no less of the vast majority of states that have come into being since the end of the Second World War.
	5 up	sentiment.	sentiment. I must repeat that
356 ff.		replace with new bibliography, starting on 357
374 ff.		start index on first recto after bibliography, refoliating throughout and exhanging left and right running headlines; the page numbers given here are those of the first edition, in which the index started on p. 374
378		Chatelet	Châtelet
384		La Mothe le Vayer, François de, 85	La Mothe le Vayer, François de, 86
387		Mussorgsky, Modeste,	Mussorgsky, Modest,
388		Patrizzi	Patrizi

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