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Bib.71

Two Concepts of Liberty, Inaugural Lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory (Oxford, 1958: Clarendon Press), 55 pp.

Reprinted in:

  • Four Essays on Liberty, The Proper Study of Mankind and Liberty
  • Preston King (ed.), The Study of Politics: A Collection of Inaugural Lectures (London, 1977: Frank Cass)
  • Philip Pettit and Robert E. Goodin (eds), Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology (Oxford, 1998: Blackwell)

Reprinted in part in:

  • William Ebenstein (ed.), Modern Political Thought: The Great Issues, 2nd ed. (New York, 1960: Holt, Rinehart and Winston) (as ‘Freedom: Negative or Positive?’)
  • Iain MacKenzie (ed.), Political Concepts: A Reader and Guide (Edinburgh, 2005: Edinburgh University Press)
  • Anthony Quinton (ed.), Political Philosophy (London, 1967: Oxford University Press)
  • David Miller (ed.), Liberty (Oxford, 1991: Oxford University Press)
  • Michael Sandel (ed.), Liberalism and Its Critics (Oxford, 1984: Blackwell)
  • Nigel Warburton, Arguments for Freedom (Milton Keynes, 1999: The Open University)
  • David Miller (ed.), The Liberty Reader (Boulder and London, 2006: Paradigm)
  • Robert Senelle and others (eds), The Road to Political Democracy: From Plato to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Brussels, 2012: Academic and Scientific Publishers)
  • Matt Zwolinski (ed.), Arguing about Political Philosophy (New York and London, 2009: Routledge)

Edited, with notes, by Kimiyoshi Yura (Kyoto, 1967: Apollon-sha)

Translations:

  • Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian (in part), Spanish, Ukrainian
Bibliography
T.71

‘Two Concepts of Liberty’

Arabic

Belarusian

  • In Reader in Contemporary Political Philosophy, trans. Igor Karpikov, Victor Lukyanov and Vyacheslav Voitkevich (Budapest, 1997: Central European University Press), 46-92

Bulgarian

  • ‘Dve skhvashchaniya za svobodana’, trans. Maya Kalopherova, introduction byJohn Gray, in Panorama XII, Nos 3–4 (1991), 192–222

Chinese

  • (Hong Kong, 2005: The Commercial Press)

Danish

  • ‘To slags frihed’, in Den ideale straeben ogandre essays, trans. Anders Smith (Copenhagen, 2005: Gyldendal)

Dutch

  • Twee opvattingen van vrijheid, trans. Tine Ausma, with an afterword by Hans Blokland (Amsterdam, 1996: Boom)
  • reissued in the series Kleine Klassieken (2010)

Estonian

Georgian

  • (Budapest, 1997: Central European University Press)

German

  • Trans. Hans Günter Holl, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 41 (1993) no. 4, 741–75

Greek

  • In Deucalion 4 no. 13 (1975), 3–17

Hungarian

  • (in part) ‘A szabadság két fogalma’, trans. Eros Ferenc, Mûhely [ Workshop ] no. 2 (1990), 4–17
  • repr. from Négy esszé aszabadságról, trans. Eros Ferenc and Gábor Berényi (Budapest, 1990: EurópaKönyvkiadó)

Italian

  • ‘Due concezioni della libertà’, in Tempo presente 4 no. 6(1959), 434–447 ‘Due concetti dilibertà’, in La libertà politica no. 1 (1974), 103–61
  • Trans. in Feltrinelli ed. of 112 repr. in Gaetano Pecora (ed.), La liberta dei moderni (Milan, 1999: Masson)
  • Due concetti di libertà, trans. Marco Santambrogio (Milan, 2000: Feltrinelli)

Japanese

  • ‘Futatsu no jiyū gainen’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, Rekishinohituzensei (Tokyo, 1966: Misuzu Shobo)
  • ‘Futastu no jiyū gainen’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)

Latvian

  • Trans. Jānis Nameisis Vējš, in id., Cetras esejas par Berlinu [ Four Essays on Berlin ] (Riga, 2017: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia), 123–51

Lithuanian

Norwegian

  • Frihetens grenser, trans. Lars Roar Langslet (Oslo, 1961: Cappelens)

Polish

  • Samizdat: ‘Dwie Koncepcje wolności’, in Trójgłos o wolności ([Lublin?], 1987: Wolna Spółka Wydawnicza/Komitywa)
  • Dwie Koncepcje wolności i inne eseje, trans. Hanna Bartoszewicz, Daniel Grinberg, Sergiusz Kowalski and Maciej Tanski (Warsaw, 1991: Res Publica)

Russian

  • ‘Dva ponimaniya svobodi’, trans. L. Sebov, in Filosofiya svobody: Evropa (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Slovenian

  • (in part) ‘Svetišce v Sarastru in vprašanje svobode’, trans. Anamarija Beniger Smerdel, in Nova revija no. 176 (December 1996),81–99

Spanish

  • ‘Dos conceptos de libertad’, trans. Julio Bayón, in Libertady necesidad en la historia (Madrid, 1974: Revista de Occidente)
  • Dos conceptos de libertad y otros escritos, trans. and ed. Ángel Rivero (Madrid, 2001: Alianza; reissued 2014)

Ukrainian

  • In Sucasnist (Munich, 1961), trans. Roman Szporluk (Budapest,1997: Central European University Press)
Translations
OA.71

Stover, Robert, The Nature of Historical Thinking (Chapel Hill, 1967: University of North Carolina Press)

Works on IB
Bib.171

‘On Philosophy’, Good Book Guide 8 (Spring 1980), 10

Bibliography
Bib.171(a)

‘A Tribute to my Friend’ (on Jacob Talmon), Forum no. 38 (Summer 1980), 1–4

  • trans. Hebrew
Bibliography
T.171(a)

‘A Tribute to my Friend’

Hebrew

  • Yedioth Achronot , 4 July 1980
  • also in Jacob Talmon, Hidat HaHove ve Ormat Hahistoria [The Riddle of the Present and the Cunning of History], ed. David Ohana, afterwords by Yehoshua Arieli and Isaiah Berlin (Jerusalem, 2000: Bialik Institute), 411–15
Translations
B.71

Conversations with Boris Pasternak

  • Part of Maurice Bowra Memorial Lecture from Personal Impressions
  • Recording date: [to come]
  • First transmission: 10.15 pm 28/6/81 BBC Radio 4
  • Duration: 45 minutes
  • Producer: Leonie Cohn/Helen Fry (LC in Radio Times, HF on contract)
  • Transcript: BBC Written Archives
  • Recording: BBC Sound Archives MT41150; BLSA Tape T4197W (off-air)
  • Publication: part of ‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in Personal Impressions (London, 1980: Hogarth Press; New York, 1981: Viking; Oxford, 1982: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin)
Broadcasts
OA.171

Sandel, M. ‘Introduction’ to his Liberalism and its Critics (New York, 1984: New York University Press), 1–11

Works on IB
OA.271

Sasaki, Fumiko, (in Japanese) ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Perspective on International Politics in “Weekly Political Report” (2): Dependence and Subjectivity in Diplomacy’, Bulletin of Aoyama Graduate School of International Politics and Economics 3 (1991), 1–22

Works on IB
I.71

Igor Shaitanov, ‘[To be a liberal means to live and let live]’, Obshchaya Gazeta, 22–8 April 1994, 9

Interviews
OA.371

Geuss, Raymond, ‘Auffassungen der Freiheit’, Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 49 no. 1 (January–March 1995), 1–14

Works on IB
OA.471

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr, ‘A Great Man in a Grim Time’, Newsweek 130 no. 20 (17 November 1997), 55

Works on IB
OA.571

Kelly, P. J., ‘Contextual and Non-Contextual Histories of Political Thought’, in Jack Hayward, Brian Barry and Archie Brown (eds), The British Study of Politics in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 1999: Oxford University Press/The British Academy)

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OA.671

Dénes, Iván Zoltán, ‘Egy európai liberális gondolkodó portréja’, in id., Európai mintakövetés – nemzeti öncélúság: Értékvilág és identitáskeresés a 19-20. századi Magyarországon (Budapest, 2001), 243–55

Works on IB
OA.710

Skinner, Quentin, Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge, 2001: Cambridge University Press), 113–16

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OA.711

Swift, Adam, Political Philosophy: A Beginner’s Guide for Students and Politicians (Oxford etc., 2001: Polity and Blackwell)

  • this work, esp. part 2, is critical of IB as ‘confused and confusing’, and Brian Barry opines: ‘Beginning students ... will be spared the effort to make sense of Berlin’s “two concepts of liberty”, thanks to Swift’s crisp exploration of its multiple confusions.’
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OA.712

Toulmin, Stephen, Return to Reason (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001: Harvard University Press), vii–viii, 10, 181–2, 235–6

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OA.713

Wallace, Teresa, and others (eds.), Time and Tide: Sea of Faith Beyond the Millennium (Alresford, 2001: John Hunt)

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OA.714

Wokler, Robert, ‘The Professoriate of Political Thought in England since 1914: A Tale of Three Chairs’, The History of Political Thought in National Context, ed. Dario Castiglione and Iain Hampsher-Monk (Cambridge, 2001: Cambridge University Press), chapter 7 (134–58)

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OA.715

Yu Jongho, ‘Aijaieo Beollinui Ekkal Mareukeuseuem’ [‘Isaiah Berlin’s Karl Marx’], Dongailbo [Donga Daily], 6 October 2001, 30

  • repr. in the 2012 reissue of the 2001 Korean translation
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