The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Foreword to Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven J. Zipperstein (eds), Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky (London, 1988: Peter Halban), ix

The Pursuit of the Ideal  (Turin, 1988: Giovanni Agnelli Foundation), 16 pp

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• The Crooked Timber of Humanity and The Proper Study of Mankind
• New York Review of Books, 17 March 1988, 11–18
• Christopher Gowans (ed.), Moral Disagreements: Classic and Contemporary Readings (London, 2000: Routledge)
• excerpted as ‘The Idea of Pluralism’ in Walter Truett Anderson (ed.), The Truth about the Truth: De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World (New York, 1995: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam; retitled The Fontana Postmodernism Reader, London, 1996: Fontana Press)
• under its original title in Joanne B. Ciulla, The Ethics of Leadership (Belmont, CA, 2003: Thomson/Wadsworth), 266–8
• briefly in David Taffel, Nietzsche Unbound: The Struggle for Spirit in the Age of Science (St Paul, Minnesota: Paragon House), xxviii–xxix
• trans. Arabic, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (in part)

‘Dorothy de Rothschild’ (obituary), Independent, 12 December 1988, 28

‘Israeli Solution’ (letter), Independent, 28 September 1988, 19

‘Wybór listów od Isaiaha Berlina’ (letters to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, translated into Polish, with commentary by the recipient), in Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, Filozofia wolnosci Isaiaha Berlina (Krakow, 1988: Wydawnictwo Znak), 170–206

• some of the letters are repr. in Affirming

Antonio Alférez, ‘El zahorí de la historia’, Diario 16, 20 February 1988, 4–5

Michael Ignatieff, Forty-one biographical interviews with IB and others, 1988–94

Scarpelli, Uberto, ‘Il concetto di libertà politica nel pensiero di Alessandro Passerin d’Entrèves’, Rivista internazionale di filosofia del diritto 65 (1988), 116–22

Scarpelli, Uberto, ‘Le due libertà di sir Isaiah’, Il sole ventiquattrore, 16 February 1988

Szasz, Thomas S., Insanity: The Idea and its Consequences (New York, 1987: Wiley)

Waldron, Jeremy, ‘Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism’, Philosophical Quarterly 37 no. 147 (April 1987), 127–50

Agnelli Foundation, The Giovanni, ‘The Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize’, New York Review of Books, 17 May 1988

Crowder, George, ‘Negative and Positive Liberty’, Political Science 40 no. 2 (December 1988), 57–73

Hadari, S. A., ‘Value Trade-off’, Journal of Politics 50 no. 3 (1988), 655–76

James, Wendy, The Listening Ebony (Oxford, 1988: Clarendon Press), esp. pp. 142–56, ‘On Moral Knowledge’

‘Mandrake’ column, Sunday Telegraph, 2 October 1988 (‘Another Try for Sir Alfred’), 13f–g

• on Bib.197(a), ‘Israeli Solution’ (letter), Independent, 28 September 1988, 19

Pitkin, H. F., ‘Are Freedom and Liberty Twins?’, Political Theory 16 no. 4 (1988), 523–52

Verri, Antonio, ‘Pluralismo culturale e itinerari della libertà: profilo di Isaiah Berlin’, Segni e comprensione 4 (May–August 1988), 84–90

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata, ‘Contest over the Concept of Liberty in the Context of Isaiah Berlin’s Doctrine of Freedom’ (in Polish), Ph.D. thesis, Warsaw University (1988)

‘On the Pursuit of the Ideal’

Arabic

(London, 1992: Dar Al Saqi)

Danish

In Den ideale straeben og andre essays, trans. Anders Smith (Copenhagen,2005: Gyldendal)

Estonian

(Tartu, 1999: EYS Veljesto)

French

Italian

• ‘Sulla ricerca dell’Ideale’, trans. Gilberto Forti (Turin, 1988: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli)
• repr. in Prometeo 6 no. 22 (June 1988), 6–17
• as ‘Alla ricerca dell’Ideale’ in Metella Rovero (ed.), Etica ed economica [Problema di attualità 2] (Turin, 1990: La Stampa the introduction by Salvatore Veca comments on the piece), and under its original title in Isaiah Berlin and others, La dimensione etica nelle società contemporanee (Turin, 1990: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli)
• ‘Sulla ricerca dell’ideale’, trans. Sara Bignotti, introduction by Salvatore Veca, original English text on facing pages (Brescia, 2007: Morcelliana)

Japanese

‘Risou no tsuikyu’, trans. Hidekazu Kawai, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 4 [translation of The Crooked Timber of Humanity by K. Fukuda, H. Kawai, H. Tanaka and R. Matsumoto] (1992)

Latvian

‘Par sekošanu ideāliem’, trans. and introduced by Jānis Vējš, Literatūra un Māksla nos 19 and 20 (13 May 1994)

Polish

Romanian

‘In cautarea idealului’, Sfera politicii [Bucharest, Romania] no. 6 (May 1993), 30 ff., with an introductory note by Aurelian Craiutu,‘Elogiul pluralismului’

Russian

Trans. Boris Dynin, Voprosy filosofii 2000 no. 5, 51–62 ‘Stremlenie k idealu’, trans. A. Etkind, in Filosofiya svobody: Evropa (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Slovak

‘Hl’adanie ideálu’, trans. L’ubica Hábová, Kritika & Kontext 1999 no. 2, 50–9

Spanish

‘A la búsqueda delideal’, Diario 16 , 19 February 1988, 4; 20 February 1988, 4; 21 February 1988, 4–5

Thai

Trans. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Chayangoon Thamma-un in Messages to Our Century: Three Essays of Isaiah Berlin (Bangkok, 2018: School of Chulalongkorn Students’ Press) (view document below for PDF)