The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue
[Rubin, Eli,] ‘The Berlins of Oxford and Their Opposing Origins in Tsarist Russia’, Chabad-Revisited, 11 September 2014
Rubin, Eli, ‘Squaring the Circle of Faith: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Divine Masquerade of Otherness’, Ḥakirah 17 (Summer 2014), 89–104
Sīmanis, Dāvis, ‘Nuclear Breakout: Director Dāvis Sīmanis arranges a Meeting between Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin’, Rīga 2014: European Capital of Culture Programme, Spring/Summer edition, 13
- on the film Escaping Riga (2014), a fictional account of the 'remarkably parallel lives' of Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin
Waldron, Jeremy, ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Neglect of Enlightenment Constitutionalism’, draft of a keynote address to a conference on ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment’ held 20–22 March 2014 at Wolfson College, Oxford
- see also OB.56, Brockliss, Laurence, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment (Oxford, 2016: Oxford University Press)
Qian, Wang, ‘Berlin no. keimohihan ha machigatteita?’ [‘Was Berlin’s critique of the Enlightenment mistaken?’], Mirai no. 573 (June 2014), 6–9
- report on the conference on ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment’ held 20–22 March 2014 at Wolfson College, Oxford
- see also OB.56, Brockliss, Laurence, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment (Oxford, 2016: Oxford University Press)
Qian, Wang, ‘Bolin pipan qimeng picuole?’ [‘Is Berlin’s critique of the Enlightenment incorrect?’], Sixiang [Reflection] no. 26 (October 2014), 275–88
- View Document (below) for a concise summary in English
Tutor de Ureta, Andrés, ‘Críticas a la Ilustración: el modelo racionalista del pluralismo de Isaiah Berlin frente a la racionalidad monista ilustrada’, in Javier Franzé (ed.), Democracia: ¿consenso o conflicto? Agonismo y teoría deliberativa en la política contemporánea (Madrid, 2014: Catarata), 114–34
Winham, Ilya, ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Pelagian Soul: Response to Riley’, Political Theory 42 no. 3 (June 2014), 338–44
Butin, Alexis, Isaiah Berlin, libéral et pluraliste (Paris, 2014: Michel Houdiard)
Reviews
- Brunet, Valentine, Cercles 2014
- Ducrocq, Myriam Isbelle, Revue française de science politique 66 nos 3–4 (June–August 2016), 589–90
Liu, Dong and Xiangdong Xu (eds), Yisaiya Bolin yu dangdai zhongguo: ziyou yu duoyuan zhijian [Isaiah Berlin and Contemporary China: Between Liberalism and Pluralism] (Nanjing, 2014: Yilin Press)
- proceedings of a conference, ‘Isaiah Berlin and Contemporary China’, held on 10 March 2011 at Tsinghua University
Pacheco Amitesarove, Antonio Jose, La aporía del binomio libertad–igualdad en Isaiah Berlin: El problema aporético de conciliar libertad e igualdad, política o económica, en una sociedad (Riga, 2014: Editorial Académica Española)
- NB: at the last time of checking, it appears that this imprint does not peer review its publications
Tutor de Ureta, Andrés, ‘El pluralismo de valores de Isaiah Berlin frente al relativismo: análisis e interpretación crítica’, Ph.D. thesis, University of Castilla–La Mancha (2014)
Zhang, Lanbo,‘The Intellectual as Warrior: Isaiah Berlin’s Cold War’, Senior thesis, Columbia University (2014)
Kuo, Po-hung, ‘Isaiah Berlin: Liberalism and Its Response to Marxism’, Master’s thesis, National Sun Yat-sen University (2014)
A Message to the Twenty-First Century
Italian
- ‘Un messaggio al Ventunesimo secolo’, trans. Giulio Arborio Mella, in id., Un messaggio al Ventunesimo secolo (Milan, 2014: Adelphi)
Latvian
- ‘Vēstījums 21. gadsimtam’, trans. Helmuts Caune, Rīgas Laiks, December 2014, 67–9
Thai
- Trans. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Nisit Review, 6 November 2017
- repr. in Messages to Our Century: Three Essays of Isaiah Berlin (Bangkok, 2018: School of Chulalongkorn Students’ Press)
Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin: Leningrad–Moscow–London
- Item on BBC Russian Service TV
- Posted: 7 February 2015
- Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds (section on AA and IB ends 5:12)
- Speakers: Aleksandr Kan, Seva Novgorodtseva
- Recording: YouTube
‘That’s How It Was’: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin at the End of 1945
- Video of talk given in Boris Pasternak’s dacha, Peredelkino
- Posted: 20 January 2015
- Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 27 seconds
- Speaker: Tatiana Sergeevna Pozdnyakova
- Recording: YouTube
- Publication: see the author’s book on this topic
Affirming: Letters 1975–1997, ed. Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle (London, 2015: Chatto and Windus; London, 2017, Pimlico)
- Extracts in The Times Literary Supplement (‘Among Important Persons: Isaiah Berlin Looks Back’, 21 & 28 August 2015, 14–16) and the New York Review of Books (‘The Unique Qualities of Joe Alsop’, 8 October 2015, 38, 40)
- excerpts trans. Spanish
Ryan, A[lan], ‘Berlin, Sir Isaiah (1909–1997)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford, 2004: Oxford University Press)
- revised version published online 17 September 2015
- the Trustees of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust gratefully acknowledge the ODNB's making this article freely accessible from 2021

