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| Berlin’s Karl Marx went into four editions (1939, 1948, 1963 and 1978). Berlin made substantial changes for the third and fourth editions, and additions that he had made for a German translation published in 1959 were also added in the 1960 reprint of the second edition. Some of the changes were minor amendments, but some were substantial new passages, taking account of newly published material from Marx’s Nachlaß, and recent work by other scholars. Since Berlin’s death the chronology and content of these changes have started to be discussed; the table below is intended to facilitate this discussion. |
Page reference in the 4th edition (1978)
New material
Date added
Edition/page reference for first appearance of addition
22
unlike some [...] human progress.
1978
4/22
89–90
The theory matured gradually [...] by Marx’s name. 1963
3/123–4
93–6
The central Hegelian conception [...] their revolutionary practice. 1963
3/127–32 98–99
Marx’s immediate successors [...] whittled down. 1963
3/136
99–102 Like Hegel [...] mechanically determined. 1960
2 (1960)/130–7 102–4 The laws of history [...] particularly in our day.
1978
4/102–4
104–5
Because the historical function [...] which their nature craves. 1960
2 (1960)/135–7
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