The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Della Casa, Alessandro, ‘Nazionalismo, sionismo e appartenenza in Isaiah Berlin’ [‘Nationalism, Zionism and Belonging in Isaiah Berlin’], Ph.D. thesis, Tuscia University, Viterbo (2017)

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Musachio, Ben, ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Reports on His Visit to Soviet Russia in 1945–46’, undergraduate thesis, Stanford University (2017)

Positive and Negative Freedom

• ‘Philosopher Angie Hobbs talks about two kinds of freedom: negative and positive. The distinction was made by Isaiah Berlin but derives from the ideas of the Greek philosopher Plato.’
• First transmission: 12.04 p.m. 14/8/18 BBC Radio 4
• Duration: 11 minutes
• Series: A History of Ideas
• Presenter: Angie Hobbs
• Speakers: Isaiah Berlin, Satish Kumar, Jesse Norman
• Recording: BBC Sounds

Re-thinking the Human Condition

• ‘Public intellectuals across time plus memory lessons with Matthew Sweet and Berlin’s editor, Henry Hardy, theologist Dafydd Daniel, writer Hilde Østby and scientist Ylva Østby’
• First transmission: 10.00 p.m. 1/11/18 BBC Radio 3
• Duration: 46 minutes
• Series: Free Thinking
• Presenter: Matthew Sweet
• Speakers: Henry Hardy, Dafydd Daniel, Hilde Østby, Ylva Østby
• Recording: BBC Sounds

Blattberg, Charles, ‘Dirty Hands: The One and the Many’ The Monist 101 no. 2 (April 2018), 150–69

Collignon, Stefan, ‘Negative and Positive Liberty and the Freedom to Choose in Isaiah Berlin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’, Journal of Philosophical Economics: Reflections on Economic and Social Issues 12 no. 1 (Autumn 2018), 36–64

Gaddis, John Lewis, On Grand Strategy (New York, 2018: Penguin Press)

• see esp. chapter 10, ‘Isaiah’

Granovskaya, Ol'ga Leonidovna, ‘Lev Shestov i Isaiya Berlin: filosofiya tragedii i konflikta na perekrestke kul'turnykh’ [‘Lev Shestov and Isaiah Berlin: Philosophy of Tragedy and Conflict at the Crossroads of Cultures’], Gumanitarnie issledovaniya v Vostochnoy Sibiri i na Dal'nem Vostoke [Humanities Research in Eastern Siberia and the Far East] 2018 no. 3 (45), 138–47

Granovskaya, Ol'ga Leonidovna, ‘ “Razgovor” na “perekrestke kul'tur” (Isaiya Berlin o vctreche s Aleksandrom Kozhevom)’ [‘ “Conversation” at the “Cultural Crossroads”: Isaiah Berlin on a Meeting with Alexander Kojève’], Voprosy filosofii 2018 no. 12, 152–61

Hardy, Henry, ‘Isaiah Berlin: Against Dogma’, in the online-only ‘Footnotes to Plato’ series, The Times Literary Supplement, posted 17 October 2018

Joshua L. Cherniss and Henry Hardy, ‘The Life and Opinions of Isaiah Berlin’, in Joshua L. Cherniss and Steven B. Smith (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin (Cambridge etc., 2018: Cambridge University Press), 13–30

Herman, David, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Holocaust: What Did Berlin Know? And When Did He Know it?’, Jewish Quarterly, Summer 18, 62–8

Moran, Michael, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the “History of Ideas”: Some Personal Impressions’, chapter 18 in id., Metaphysical Imagination and Other Essays on Philosophy and Modern European Mind (Peterborough, 2018: FastPrint)

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(in Arabic) Niroomand, Mahin, and Hassan Abniki, ‘The Ratio of Political Goodness and Negative Freedom in Berlin’s Political Thought (With Emphasis on Russian Communism)’, International Journal of Political Science, 8 no. 2 (Summer 2018), 49–65

Ricciardi, Mario, ‘Isaiah Berlin on Philosophical Clarification’, in Gianfranco Pellegrino (ed.), Legitimacy, Democracy, and Disagreement: Essays in Honour of Sebastiano Meffetone (Rome, 2018: LUISS University Press), 171–9

Hardy, Henry, In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure (London, 2018: I.B.Tauris; repr. by Tauris Parke 2019 [with corrections], 2020 [paperback, with new appendix])

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Mori, Tatsuya, Sisou no seijigaku: Isaiah Berlin kenkyu [The Politics of Ideas: A Study of Isaiah Berlin’s Political Thought] (Tokyo, 2018: Waseda University Press)

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