The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Sir Maurice Bowra, 1898–1971 (Oxford, [1971]: Wadham College), 10 pp.

• repr. as ‘Memorial Address in St Mary’s’ in Hugh Lloyd-Jones (ed.), Maurice Bowra (London, 1974: Duckworth)
• repr. as ‘Maurice Bowra’ in Personal Impressions

‘Georges Sorel’, Creighton Lecture, The Times Literary Supplement, 31 December 1971, 1617–22

• repr. in expanded form in Chimen Abramsky (ed.), Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr (London, 1974: Macmillan), 3–35
• repr. in Against the Current
• trans. Hebrew, Spanish
• see also Bib.132, ‘Sorel’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 14 January 1972, 40

‘The Question of Machiavelli’, New York Review of Books, 4 November 1971, 20–32

• repr. of part of ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’, in Myron P. Gilmore (ed.), Studies on Machiavelli (Florence, 1972: Sansoni), 149–206
• repr. in the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Political Science, No 68813
• as Appendix II in Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince on The Art of Power (London, 2007: Duncan Baird Publishing), 222–61
• full version repr. in John Dunn and Ian Harris (eds), Machiavelli (Cheltenham and Lyme, 1997: Edward Elgar), vol. 2
• in Against the Current
• in The Proper Study of Mankind
• trans. Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian

‘Randolph’, in Kay Halle (ed.), Randolph Churchill: The Young Unpretender (London, 1971: Heinemann), 278–9

‘Tchaikovsky and Eugene Onegin’, Glyndebourne Festival Programme Book 1971, 58–63

• repr. as ‘Tchaikovsky, Pushkin and Onegin’ in Musical Times 121 (1980), 163–8, and Eugene Onegin (Oxford University Opera Club programme) ([Oxford], 1992)
• See also the compilation 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299

(with others) ‘George Seferis’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 16 December 1971, 42

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‘Sir Isaiah Berlin OM replies to a letter from the Editor’, Jewish Chronicle, 12 November 1971, 35

Arblaster, A., ‘Vision and Revision: A Note on the Text of Isaiah Berlin’s Four Essays on Liberty’, Political Studies 19 No 1 (1971), 81–6

Daiches, David, A Third World ([Brighton/London, 1971: Sussex University Press/Chatto and Windus])

Eslick, Leonard J., ‘The Republic Revisited; The Dilemma of Liberty and Authority’, Philosophical Forum (Dekalb) 10 (December 1971), 171–212

‘Georges Sorel’

Hebrew

In Molad NS 5 (OS 28) (1973), 267–88

Japanese

‘Georges Sorel’, trans. Haruo Tanaka, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

Spanish

(1973: Alianza)

‘The Originality of Machiavelli’

Japanese

‘Machiavelli no dokusousei’, trans. Takeshi Sasaki, Selected Works of Berlin, vol. 1 (Tokyo, 1983: Iwanami Shoten)

Lithuanian

Polish

‘Oryginalność Machiavellego’, trans. Zofia Dorosz, in Literatura na świecie no. 6 (1986), 208–76

Portuguese

(Rio de Janeiro, 1999: Ediouro Publicucoes de Lazer e Cultura)

Russian

‘Original´nost´ Makhiavelly’, trans. V. V. Sapov, in Chelovek no. 3 (2001), 141–52 [further part(s) forthcoming];preceded by anintroduction by the translator, ‘ “Pokovoi phitil´ ”Makhiavelly’, ibid. 138–40

Swedish

‘Machiavelli tände den dödligaluntan’, in Maria Carlshamre (ed.), Den tänkande chefen (Stockholm, 1999: Industrilitteratur)

Thai

‘The Question of Machiavelli’ (short version published in the New York Review of Books), trans. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Academia

British Foreign Policy since 1945

• Introduction to lecture by Roy Jenkins
• Recording date: 28/3/72
• First transmission: 8.55 pm 28/4/72 BBC Radio 3
• Duration (whole programme): 40 minutes
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T34443; BLSA Tape P815R

Giambattista Vico: Man of Genius

• Talk ‘on the neglected Italian thinker’
• Recording date: 19/4/72
• First transmission: 10.35 pm 25/9/72 BBC Radio 3
• Duration: 49 minutes 9 seconds
• Repeat(s): 10.10 pm 29/11/72 BBC Radio 3
• Producer: Adrian Johnson
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives; Berlin Papers
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T34962; BLSA Tape T10334W (C530/1) (copy of a BBC Transcription Services tape, ‘Giambattista Vico’, BBC Transcription Services Talks Catalogue Number 1786.00)
• Publication: ‘Giambattista Vico’, Listener 88 (1972), 391–8 = Bib.130

Roots of Romanticism

• Interview for Open University with Graham Martin, Reader in Literature, Open University
• A202/34 Arts Level II The Age of Revolutions (1972–79)
• Recording date: 25/1/72
• First transmission: 16/10/72 BBC Radio 4 (Open University)
• Duration: 18 minutes 50 seconds
• Repeat(s): 21/10/72 BBC Radio 4 (Open University), and in subsequent years of the course, at about the same time of year
• Producer: Helen Rapp
• Transcript: Berlin Papers
• Recording: BLSA Tape H3761

‘I’m going to tamper with your beliefs a little’

• A dialogue with Stuart Hampshire on ‘Oxford philosophy’, especially J L Austin; the second of a series of six films on philosophy in Oxford, collectively entitled Logic Lane (also the title of the first film)
• Year of production: 1972
• Duration: 56 minutes 30 seconds
• Director: Michael Chanan
• Producer: Noel Chanan
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: the films are available online to universities with access to Edinburgh University’s Film & Sound Online holdings. They are also available on YouTube (the IB film begins here). There is an excerpt from the IB film in the first, introductory, film of the series. Another extract is available here. Access to 16 mm film through British Universities Film and Video Council (ref. 6HE 136); copy at BLSA, Tape V531 (the film includes an extract from a recording of J L Austin lecturing: a recording of the whole of this lecture is also available, BLSA Tape T10707).
• Publication: view document below

The Problem of Nationalism

• A dialogue with Stuart Hampshire, chaired by Bryan Magee
• Recording date: 6/11/72
• First transmission: 30/11/72 ITV (Thames Television)
• Duration: 51 minutes 21 seconds
• Series: Something to Say (No 25)
• Presenter: Bryan Magee
• Director: George Sawford
• Producer: Udi Eichler
• Transcript: Thames Television

Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament, Romanes Lecture (Oxford, 1972: Clarendon Press; repr. with corrections 1973), 61 pp.

• repr. in New York Review of Books, 18 October 1973, 39–44, 1 November 1973, 22–9, 15 November 1973, 9–11
• as introduction to Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, trans. Rosemary Edmonds (Harmondsworth, 1975: Penguin)
• in Russian Thinkers
• excerpted as ‘The Liberal Predicament’ in Dialogue 11 no. 4 (1978), 90–5
• trans. Japanese, Russian
• see also Bib.138, ‘Fathers and Children’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 12 January 1973, 40

Zionist Politics in Wartime Washington: A Fragment of Personal Reminiscence, Yaacov Herzog Memorial Lecture (Jerusalem, 1972: Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 61 pp.

• excerpted in Barnet Litvinoff (ed.), The Essential Chaim Weizmann: The Man, the Statesman, the Scientist (London, 1982: Wei Nicolson)
• originally to have been reprinted in Personal Impressions, but IB changed his mind: later repr. in Flourishing
• trans. Hebrew

Foreword to Friedrich Meinecke, Historism: The Rise of a New Historical Outlook, trans. J. E. Anderson (London, 1972: Routledge and Kegan Paul), ix–xvi

• repr. as ‘Meinecke and Historicism’ in The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)