Corrections to Against the Current

Corrections to 2nd edition

The second edition (2013) was completely revised throughout, and translations should be made from this edition, with the additional corrections listed below (note the two extra pages, a and b, before the roman numbering starts). The bibliography of Berlin’s writings included in the first edition was not included in the second, since it is now available online in regularly updated form: if the bibliography is to be included in translations of the second edition, the online version should be used.

*Page*	*Line*	*For*	*Read*
a [half-title page]	11	Marx,	Marx, The Age of Enlightenment, [roman commas]
	2–1 up	the first three […] remaining volume.	all those listed above, and a four-volume edition of his letters. 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).
b [half-title verso]	4–3 up	The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West (2007)	The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (2017)
	2 up	[insert below:]	<https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/> <https://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/>
i [list of other titles]		[add at end:]	Affirming: Letters 1975–1997
iv [title verso]	9	[insert new line below:]	Reprinted with corrections 2023
	11	1955, 1959,	1959,
	12	The Isaiah	The Trustees of the Isaiah
17	note 2, 2	1981–	1981–2015
19	note 2	252	12
36	note 9	231	243
	note 5	[add at beginning:]	Letter to Engels, 25 September 1857, MEW xxix 193, CW xl 187. Introduction to Dialectics of Nature, MEW xx 312, CW xxv 319.
48	note 2	2	5
75	note 2, 2	in De	, De
	note 2, 3	institutione	institutione, (c.1484), 3. 1,
77	note 1	note 3 above	36/6
42	note 5	[add at beginning:]	Letter to Engels, 25 September 1857, CW xl 187. Introduction to Dialectics of Nature, CW xxv 319.
44	9–8 up	Jesuits […] unbeliever',	Jesuit Antonio Possevino he is a ‘wicked tool of Satan’ and an ‘ungodly scoundrel’;²
	8 up	in Bertrand	in Renzo Sereno’s paraphrase of
	7 up	words	account
		gangsters’	gangsters’³
	6 up	statesmen’,	statesmen’,⁴
	5 up	[delete note cue 2]
	note 2	[replace with:]	² ‘[S]celeratum illud Satanae organum’; ‘nebulo ille impius’: Iudicium […] De Nicolao Machiauello (Rome, 1592), 158, 162. ³ op. cit. (42/1), 166; Bertrand Russell, Power: A New Social Analysis (London, 1938), 98. ⁴ ‘Vademecum per l’uomo di governo’: ‘Preludio al “Machiavelli” ’, Gerarchia 4 no. 3 (April 1924), 205.
50	8 up	Duke of Valentino	Duke Valentino
66	10 up	is	are
68	9	Duke of Valentino	Duke Valentino
74	6 up	This according to Machiavelli	This, according to Machiavelli,
76	6	rule	rule,
79	8 up	deeds,	deeds
82	3	and that	and
83	9	rightly,	rightly
86	17	this tradition	this entire tradition
87	4 up	others	others,
94	16	in the story	the story
96	11	assumptions	assumption
	13 up	unrealisable	unrealisable,
	8 up	believe in	entail
	7 up	commonplace,	commonplace
97	note 1, 1	222–3 […] 335.	232–3, Leibniz ibid. 234.
99	17	incompatible alternatives	alternatives incompatible in practice or, worse still, for logical reasons,
100		[add below text in smaller type:]	[small caps] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The first draft of this paper was read at a meeting of the British section of the Political Studies Association in 1963 [on 26 March at Exeter College, Oxford]. I should like to take this opportunity of offering my thanks to friends and colleagues to whom I sent it for their comments. They include A. P. d’Entrèves, Carl J. Friedrich, Felix Gilbert, Myron Gilmore, Louis Hartz, J. P. Plamenatz, Lawrence Stone and Hugh Trevor-Roper. I have greatly profited from their criticisms, which have saved me from many errors; for those that are left I am, of course, alone responsible. I.B. 1972.
[Note 2 to p. 44]	[delete note and rule, and move note 1 down]
269	14	grandson of a rabbi,	great-grandson, grandson and nephew of rabbis,
278	14 up	just,	just – the realisation of a basic human need –
279	3	sentimentalism for	sentimentalism, with its debt to Saint-Simon and Fourier, for
284	note 1, line 1	die	die letzte
287	note 1, line 6 [on 288]	anthema	anathema
306	12 up	individual social national	individual, social, national
328	17–18	great-grandfather were both rabbis in	maternal great-grandfather were both rabbis in or near
329	3 up	rabbis in Trier	rabbis
340	note 5	[replace with:]	⁵ loc. cit. (17/2).
375	8 up	still	still,
464	17	acts	act
469	s.v. Borgia	Duke of Valentino	Duke Valentino
473	s.v. Fourier	277,	277, 279,
477	col. 1, lines 10–11	love affairs	love-affairs
482	s. v. Maritain	44	45
491	s. v. Strauss, Leo	44	45
492	s.v. Valentino	Duke of	Duke

Corrections to 1st edition

The superseded list below may be of use to owners of the first edition (1979 ff.). It includes (but is not exhausted by) corrections made in later impressions of that edition, except for the updating of the bibliography (see above). The following essays from AC subsequently appeared in PSM in revised form (note also some relevant corrections to PSM listed on this site):

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*	*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 2001 preface
xii		add relevant ‘Note’
new ix	n. 1, last	delete ‘forthcoming’
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 in the 2nd edition of AC
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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