Corrections to Affirming: Letters 1975–1997
All the corrections listed are present in the paperback edition (2017) – which should therefore be used for translations – except those in this colour, which should also be incorporated. Notification of other errors will be gratefully received.
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| i | 11 | Marx, | Marx, The Age of Enlightenment, [roman commas] |
| 11–8 up | – including […] (2009). | , including all those listed above, as well as the four-volume edition of his letters that the present volume inaugurates. He is co-editor of The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin (2007), editor of The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin (2009), and author of In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure (2018). | |
| last | http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/ | https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/ and http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/ | |
| iv | 7 [excluding PRH logo] | The Trustees | the Trustees |
| vi | note 1, 1 | death | death (569) |
| xi | after plate 11 | [insert new line:] | 12 Lilian Kemp |
| plate 21 | Gemma Levine | © Gemma Levine/Getty Images | |
| xvii | 3 | 1978 | 1978, 94 |
| xviii | note 4 | 1980 | 1990 |
| xix | note 1 | Some | xvii/1. Some |
| xxii | heading below editors’ names | Note to the second impression | NOTE TO THE PIMLICO EDITION |
| text under heading | We have corrected […] Avner Offer. | In the second impression of the hardback edition we corrected a number of errors that came to light after publication, and added some further information, both in situ and on p. 571. In the Pimlico edition we have made further corrections and recorded some recent deaths. For helpful feedback about the first impression we should like to thank William J. Connell, Roy Davison, Miriam Eliav-Feldon, Ian Jackson and Avner Offer. | |
| xxiv | after ‘Alfred’ | [add:] | BJ Maire Lynd |
| Marie | Maire | ||
| xxviii | 14 up | [delete entry for UGC] | |
| 5 | note 12 | b. 1929 | 1929–2017 |
| 6 | note 2, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2016 |
| 8 | note 4, 2 | 72 | 72, vice chancellor, Oxford, 1964–6, chancellor, Liverpool, 1972–9 |
| 10 | note 3, 1 | Gilmour | Gilmour Fisher |
| 13 | note 1, last | Whitehead | Whitehead, but see 571 |
| note 2, 1 | b. 1934 | 1934–2023 | |
| note 6, 4 | James) | James), | |
| 17 | note 1, 2 | (In Search of Lost Time, | [In Search of Lost Time] (Paris, |
| note 3, 3 | 2 | 2 of the 3 | |
| note 3, 4 | London | London/NY | |
| note 4, 5 | might be thought to justify | surely justifies | |
| note 5, 1 | Paris, 1972 | note 3 above | |
| note 5, 5 | London/NY, 1974 | ibid. | |
| 27 | note 2, 2 | prestigious | then prestigious |
| 30 | note 3, 1 | b. 1917 | 1917–2015 |
| note 4, 1 | 1926 | 1926–2022 | |
| note 6, 1–5 | he was […] EEC. | Wilson had always planned to retire early, and an important reason for this was that his wife, Mary, disliked political life; at one point he planned to leave politics in summer 1973, but circumstances eventually delayed his retirement until March 1976, by which time he may already have started to notice the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, which later seriously afflicted him. | |
| 32 | 2 | IUJF, | IUJF,1 |
| [renumber notes 1 and 2 as notes 2 and 3] | |||
| [add new note 1:] | 1 Founded 1919 to co-ordinate Jewish student societies in British universities. | ||
| 34 | note 5, 1 | 1920 | 1920–2017 |
| note 5, 2–3 | b. 1928 | 1928–2016 | |
| 35 | note 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2019 |
| note 2, 1 | b. 1926 | 1926–2016 | |
| note 3, 1 | succeesful | successful | |
| 43 | note 1, 1 | b. 1920 | 1920–2021 |
| 44 | note 1, 1 | Bondo Wyszpolski | Eugene Frank (‘Bondo’) Wyszpolski II |
| 45 | note 5 | Letter untraced. | See 571. |
| 46 | 9 | politics, with | politics, |
| 48 | note 1 | b. 1917 | 1917–2016 |
| 49 | 3 up | Japan’, | Japan,’ |
| 49 | note 3, 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2019 |
| 52 | note 2, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2020 |
| note 4 | ‘Vista’. | In this sense, a suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other, creating a vista of repeated elements when the doors are open. | |
| 53 | 5 | surface. | surface? |
| 59 | note 5, 1 | b. 1931 | 1931–2020 |
| 61 | note 2 | b. 1910 | 1910–2015 |
| 65 | note 1, 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2019 |
| 68 | note 8, 1 | b. 1926 | 1926–2016 |
| 72 | note 2, 2 | presdient | president |
| note 2, 4 | views | views, | |
| 73 | note 3, 4 | founder | founding |
| 74 | 10 up | [delete note 4] | |
| 75 | note 4, 1 | b. 1928 | 1928–2017 |
| 76 | note 2, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2018 |
| 91 | 2 | [carbon] | [delete] |
| 92 | 3 | Yours, | Yours, <with much love to your entire family & from us “all”> |
| 4 | [Isaiah] | Isaiah | |
| 109 | note 2, 1 | Rupert Carrington (b. 1919) | Rupert Carington (1919–2018) |
| 111 | note 2, 1 | b. 1918 | 1918–2015 |
| 116 | note 3 | Belinksy’s | Belinsky’s |
| great-great-granddaugher | great-great-granddaughter | ||
| note 5 | Benzi | Benzis | |
| note 6 | Benzi | Benzis (d. 1934[?]) | |
| 127 | note 1, 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2015 |
| note 2, 1 | b. 1924 | 1924–2020 | |
| 128 | 7 up | Исаия | Исайя |
| 129 | note 4, 1 | b. 1915 | 1915–2015 |
| 132 | note 1, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2016 |
| 135 | note 1, 1 | Anne Kindersley (b. 1928) | Anne Sarah Kindersley (1928–2020) |
| 140 | note 1, 1 | b. 1936 | 1936–2024 |
| 142 | note 4, 1 | b. 1924 | 1924–2019 |
| 148 | note 3 | b. 1930 | 1930–2020 |
| 149 | note 5, 2 | Dublin, 1759–67 | [York]/London, 1760–7 |
| 151 | note 1 | [replace with:] | William Emmanuel (‘Willie’) Abraham (b. 1934), Ghanaian philosopher; prize fellow, All Souls, 1959–62; joined faculty, Ghana, 1962, pro-vice-chancellor 1965–6; taught at Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota, 1969–73; professor, Santa Cruz, from 1973. |
| 154 | note 4, 1 | b. 1926 | 1926–2020 |
| 160 | note 2, 1 | b. 1941 | 1941–2019 |
| 161 | note 1, 1–2 | The Struggle […] to appear. | English History, 1914–1945 (Oxford, 1965), vol. xv of The Oxford History of England. |
| 166 | note 3, 1 | b. 1928 | 1928–2016 |
| 168 | note 2, 1 | b. 1935 | 1935–2016 |
| 172 | note 1, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2023 |
| note 7, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2018 | |
| 173 | 6 | though’; | though’, |
| note 6, 3 | b. 1921 | 1921–2016 | |
| 174 | note 1, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2016 |
| 182 | note 1, 1 | b. 1933 | 1933–2020 |
| 183 | note 2, 2 | 1960 | 1760 |
| 185 | note 2, 1 | b. 1927 | 1927–2015 |
| 193 | note 3, 1 | b. 1921 | 1921–2015 |
| 194 | 9 | enquiy | enquiry |
| note 4, 1 | b. 1934 | 1934–2016 | |
| 196 | note 1, 1 | b. 1924 | 1924–2017 |
| 201 | note 3, 1 | b. 1943 | 1943–2021 |
| 205 | note 4, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2019 |
| 212 | note 8, 1 | b. 1934 | 1934–2016 |
| 228 | note 3, 1 | b. 1927 | 1927–2020 |
| 229 | note 1, 1 | b. 1915 | 1915–2017 |
| note 5, 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2019 | |
| 231 | 13 | c.22 | 24 |
| , carbon | [delete] | ||
| 16 | Review: first | Review! First | |
| note 4, 3 | 1989 [twice] | 1988 [twice] | |
| note 7, last (on 233) | March | March 1982 | |
| 233 | 3–5 | [move parenthesis to precede ‘The tribute’] | |
| 5 | to support | only to support | |
| 10 | better, though | better (though | |
| K. | K[ermode] | ||
| 11 | principle. | principle). | |
| note 1, 4 | [add at end:] | See also 290/3. | |
| note 2, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2018 | |
| note 3, 1 | b. 1916 | 1916–2018 | |
| note 5, 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2019 | |
| note 8, 1 | b. 1939 | 1939–2018 | |
| note 8, 2 | since 1967 | from 1967 | |
| 234 | 2 | There | (there |
| 3 | well. | well. I wish I could offer you something – even if you declined it – but I am no expert. | |
| East. They | East) – they | ||
| 6 | ical? My | ical? – my | |
| 12 | They are | The bitterly committed seem to me | |
| 14 | friendship, | friendship <(I actually said ‘affection’, but this will do as well)> | |
| note 1, 1 | b. 1927 | 1927–2022 | |
| 235 | note 1, 1–3 | co-founded the revolutionary socialist, but anti-Stalinist, Partisan Review 1934 and edited it | co-founded 1934 the revolutionary socialist (but anti-Stalinist) Partisan Review, which brought together left-wing politics and avant-garde cultural criticism. Phillips was its editor |
| 236 | note 3, 1 | b. 1931 | 1931–2018 |
| note 5, 3 | 1859 | 1839 | |
| note 5, 4 | C.-A. | [C.-A.] | |
| note 5, 5 | Staël’ […] 1104; | Staël’, part 2, Revue des deux mondes 1835 ii no. 4 (15 May), 421; | |
| note 5, 6 | found. | found, e.g. in ‘Notes et nouvelles’, La revue indépendante 6 (1843), 127; as is ‘Pas de zèle!’ | |
| note 4, 1 | b. 1925 | 1925–2018 | |
| 241 | note 1, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2023 |
| 243 | note 2, 1 | b. 1927 | 1927–2022 |
| note 4, 1 | b. 1925 | 1925–2018 | |
| 244 | note 1, 1 | Charles | (Charles) |
| b. 1926 | 1926–2016 | ||
| note 7, 1 | b. 1933 | 1933–2021 | |
| 253 | note 7, 1 | b. 1946 | 1946–2020 |
| 254 | note 3, 4 | practicising | practising |
| 275 | note 1, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2015 |
| 288 | note 4 | author. | author; raised in County Cork, he later chose Irish over UK citizenship. |
| note 7, 1 | b. 1923 | 1923–2018 | |
| 289 | note 3, 1 | b. 1945 | 1945–2020 |
| note 4, 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2018 | |
| note 5, 1 | b. 1931 | 1931–2022 | |
| 290 | note 4, 1 | b. 1939 | 1939–2021 |
| 291 | note 3, 1 | b. 1931 | 1931–2021 |
| 292 | 9 | Iliav | Eliav |
| note 1 | Untraced. | Binyamin Eliav (1909–74) né Lubotsky, Riga-born Israeli writer and journalist; joined Israeli diplomatic service 1953, serving as consul general in Buenos Aires 1953–5, New York 1960–2; was central to the campaign for the liberation of Soviet Jewry, working with Nativ, the government agency primarily responsible, 1955–71; joined staff of Encyclopedia Judaica 1969. | |
| 296 | note 4, 1 | b. 1936 | 1936–2021 |
| 297 | note 2, 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2020 |
| note 3, 1 | 1957 | 1938 | |
| 302 | note 1, 3 | b. 1926 | 1926–2008 |
| 303 | note 1, 3 | Censorship | Censorship, |
| 306 | note 1, 1 | Moravchik | Muravchik |
| 307 | note 1, 1 | b. 1931 | 1931–2022 |
| 313 | note 3, 3 | 1929 | 1829 |
| 315 | note 1, 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2015 |
| 321 | note 4, 1 | b. 1941 | 1941–2022 |
| 322 | 8 | Moslem | Muslim |
| 335 | 7 | Sierra | Sera |
| 338 | note 3, 1 | b. 1922 | 1922–2019 |
| note 5, 1 | b. 1920 | 1920–2021 | |
| 341 | note 2, 1 | b. 1928 | 1928–2019 |
| note 7, 1 | b. 1919 | 1919–2016 | |
| 344 | note 3, 4 | compared | Compared |
| 346 | note 1, 8 | 1981– | 1981–2015 |
| 357 | note 1, 1 | Presumably Elizabeth McKane | (Mary) Elizabeth McKane (b. c.1949) |
| Richard | Richard James McKane (1947–2016, m. 1979, divorced 1984) | ||
| 360 | note 2, 2 | b. 1942 | 1942–2017 |
| 364 | note 3, 1 | b. 1931 | 1931–2017 |
| 365 | note 2, 1 | b. 1933 | 1933–2019 |
| 367 | note 5, 1 | b. 1924 | 1924–2016 |
| 375 | 13 | 1989 | 1989 [carbon] |
| 378 | 18 | who, | who,2 |
| [renumber notes 2 and 3 as notes 3 and 4] | |||
| [add new note 2:] | 2 i.e. ‘McNamara, who changed his mind but did not try’ etc. | ||
| 379 | last | Isaiah | [Isaiah] |
| 381 | note 1, 1 | b. 1926 | 1926–2015 |
| 392 | note 1, 4 | 1961–6 | 1961–5 |
| 401 | note 3, 1 | If IB means | An exception was the closure of |
| 9 up | uncensored | uncensored4 | |
| [add new note 4:] | 4 Almost certainly New Outlook, a self-described ‘Middle East monthly’, founded by the socialist-Zionist United Workers’ Party (Mapam), and published, in English, from Tel Aviv 1957–93, printing articles by Israeli, Arab and overseas writers. | ||
| 404 | note 1, 1 | b. 1937 | 1937–2016 |
| 405 | note 3, 1 | Morena | Moreno |
| b. 1934 | 1934–2017 | ||
| 407 | note 2, 4 | POI 12 | POI2 14 |
| 416 | note 2, 1 | b. 1939 | 1939–2017 |
| 418 | note 2, 3 | Dicatorship | Dictatorship |
| 420 | 12 | who | whose |
| 426 | 4 | replied | applied |
| 427 | 16 up | are obvious guarantors | is an obvious guarantor |
| 5 up | of liberty | to liberty | |
| 434 | note 1, 2 | b. 1929 | 1929–2016 |
| b. 1928 | 1928–2021 | ||
| 439 | 6 | or | Or |
| 8–9 | clear […], | clear, | |
| 442 | note 4, 2 | Irme | Imre |
| 445 | note 1, 3 | UN in Geneva | European Office of the UN (in Geneva) |
| 447 | note 1 | We have been unable to trace the broadcast that IB refers to here. | For the broadcast see 571. |
| note 3, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2023 | |
| 454 | note 1, 1 | b. 1939 | 1939–2015 |
| 455 | note 4, 3 | b. 1933 | 1933–2021 |
| 456 | note 1, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2019 |
| 457 | note 2, 1 | b. 1934 | 1934–2022 |
| note 4, 1 | b. 1942 | 1942–2018 | |
| note 6, 1 | b. 1925 | 1925–2022 | |
| 462 | 1 | WIESELTER | WIESELTIER |
| 469 | note 2, 2 | apochryphal | apocryphal |
| 472 | note 1, 6 | Obert | O. |
| note 2, 1 | O. | Obert | |
| 473 | note 1, 1 | b. 1945 | 1945–2023 |
| 474 | note 3, 4–6 (on 475) | Esquisse […] FIB2 12–13. | Système de la nature (London, 1770) 1. 11. 211; cf. FIB2 12–13, SR2 394. |
| 476 | note 5, 3 | hf2 | HF2 |
| 485 | note 4, 1 | b. 1937 | 1937–2019 |
| 488 | note 2, 1 | b. 1928 | 1928–2020 |
| 507 | note 5, 2 | Forgot | Forgot |
| 517 | note 2, 1 | prolific | political philosopher, and prolific |
| 528 | note 3, 1 | Not […] wrote, | op. cit. (22/1) ii 217; cf. |
| 538 | note 2, 1 | piano | keyboard |
| 544 | note 1, 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2017 |
| 545 | 10 up | having been | [after I was] |
| 547 | 8 up | jellows | fellows |
| 549 | 8 up | right-wing; and | right-wing. And |
| 551 | 3 | Jews | Jews1 |
| [renumber notes 1 and 2 as notes 2 and 3] | |||
| [add new note 1:] | 1 It seems more likely that IB meant ‘German Jews’. | ||
| 564 | note 1, 1 | b. 1939 | 1939–2022 |
| 566 | 2 | she treated | – she treated |
| note 1, 1 | Elisabeth | Elizabeta | |
| b. c.1915 | 1916–2006 | ||
| 571 | APPENDICES | [layout as F 694; these notes should be incorporated into the main text in translations] SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES The information given here came to our attention too late for it to be included in its proper place. p. 13 Cf. ‘A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God’s earth’: ‘The Aims of Education’ (the 1916 presidential address to the Mathematical Association of England), in A. N. Whitehead, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (London, 1929), 1. p. 45 Machiavelli does not say this explicitly in any of the surviving letters. IB is probably (mis)remembering that Machiavelli’s biographer, Pasquale Villari, quite reasonably infers that his letters of 13 and 18 March 1513 to Francesco Vettori, displaying great emotion after his release from a month in prison, where he was tortured, were written ‘with his hands still painful from the rope he had endured’: Niccolò Machiavelli e i suoi tempi (Florence, 1877–82) ii 197. The original letters do not survive for us to inspect the handwriting. p. 447 We have not traced this particular broadcast, but in an interview with Bryan Magee more than a decade earlier, as part of the Men of Ideas series (65/1), Ayer answered a related question about the defects of logical positivism: ‘Well, I suppose the most important of the defects was that nearly all of it was false.’ Men of Ideas (67/2), 131. |
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| 579 | note 2, 3 up (on 579) | Säkularausgabe. | Säkularausgabe, |
| 618 | Anglesey, 1 | b. 1924 | 1924–2017 |
| 624 | 2 | 1982 | 1983 |
| 629 | Silvers, 1 | b. 1929 | 1929–2017 |
| 632 | 1 | b. 1936 | 1936–2021 |
| 633 | Walicki, 1 | b. 1930 | 1930–2020 |
| 634 | White, 1 | Gabriel (b. 1917), | Gabriel (1917–2016) né Weisberger, |
| Williams, 7–8 | b. 1930 | 1930–2021 | |
| 637 | Childers | Roy | Rory |
| Empson | Harvard] | Harvard], 33 | |
| FitzLyon | (CT) | (CT) & 393 | |
| 61 n3 | 61 n3, 62 n1 | ||
| 393, 394, | 394, | ||
| Hamm | 485 [232/133–4] | 485 [232/133–4], 485 n4 [232/125–6] | |
| Hardy | xvii […] 625 | xvii & 94, xviii n5, 8 n3 & plate 2, 11–12 (CT), 12, 60, 283 n3, 406, 407 nn2,3, 429, 435, 438, 527, 624–5 | |
| 638 | Ignatieff | 638 | 676 |
| Mabro | 194 n4 | 194 n4 | |
| Nicholas | 380 nn1,5 | 380 nn1,6 | |
| Quinto | Quinton | ||
| Roberts | [add new entry after this:] | Rothschild, Hannah 439 [228/104] | |
| Stern | 215/58–9 | LOC | |
| 640 | Abraham, Edward | [add new entry after this:] | Abraham, (William) Emmanuel 151 |
| 641 | Alsop, Joseph, 4 | 235 n6 | 235 n5 |
| Asquith, Herbert | 551 n2 | 551 n3 | |
| 642 | Asquith, Raymond | 551 n2 | 551 n3 |
| Ayer, 3 | 67–8 | 67–8, 571 | |
| 650 | Cliveden | 235 n6 | 247 n5 |
| 652 | Ekberg | [add new entry after this:] | Eliav, Benjamin (né Lubotsky) 292 |
| 653 | FitzLyon, Kyril, 1 | Zinov′ev | Zinovieff |
| 655 | Hadashot | 401 n3 | 410 n4 |
| Hardy, Henry, 5 | 406–410 | 406–10 | |
| 662 | Magee | 435, | 435, 571, |
| Men of Ideas | 67–8 | 67–8, 571 | |
| 663 | col. 2, Moravchik | Moravchik | Muravchik [and move to 664] |
| 664 | New Left | [add new entry after this:] | New Outlook 401 n3 |
| 670 | Schlesinger, Arthur, 7 | 235 n6 | 235 n5 |
| Shishkovsky | Vsevolod | Vsevolod Georgievich | |
| 671 | Springer | [delete entry] | |
| 673 | Trott zu Solz | 235 n5 | 235 n4 |
| 674 | Vietnam War | [add new entry after this:] | Villari, Pasquale: Niccolò Machiavelli e i suoi tempi 571 n2 |
| 675 | White, Morton | Gabriel | Gabriel (né Weisberger) |