The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Rivero Rodríguez, Ángel, ‘Isaiah Berlin y Hannah Arendt más allá de la antipatía personal: la disputa sobre el significado de la libertad’ [‘Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt beyond Personal Dislike: The Dispute about the Significance of Liberty’], Diacrítica [journal of the Center of Humanities, Minho University, Braga, Portugal] 22 no. 2 (2008), 173–84

Sato, Hikari, Liberalizumu no. saikouchiku: ‘jiyū no. sekkyokuteki na hoshu’ no. tameni [Restructuring Liberalism: For the ‘Positive Maintenance of Liberty’] (Tokyo, 2008: Shosekikoubou Hayakawa), chapter 1

Todorov, Tzvetan, Duties and Delights: The Life of a Go-Between, ed. Catherine Portevin, trans. Gila Walker (Oxford, 2008: Seagull), 119–20

Trainor, Brian T., ‘Politics as the Quest for Unity: Perspectivism, Incommensurable Values and Agonistic Politics’, Philosophy and Social Criticism 34 no. 8 (Oct. 2008), 905–24

• reply by George Crowder, ibid., 925–39

Walicki, Andrzej, ‘Rosyjscy inspiratorzy koncepcji wolnosci Isaiaha Berlina’ [Russian inspirations of Isaiah Berlin’s conception of liberty], Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 3 (2008) no. 2, 9–40

Wokler, Robert, ‘A Guide to Isaiah Berlin’s Political Ideas in the Romantic Age’, History of Political Thought 29 (2008), 344–69

Aberbach, David, ‘Talk is Golden’, The Times Literary Supplement, 5 June 2009, 14–15

• see also letters, 12 June 2009, 6

Hama Shinichiro, Berlin no Jiyuu Ron: Tagenteki Liberarizumu no Keifu [Berlin on Liberty: A Genealogy of Pluralist Liberalism] (Tokyo, 2008: Keiso Shobo)

• also discusses Joseph Raz, John Gray, Judith Shklar, Avishai Margalit and Michael Ignatieff, and examines the tradition of liberalism based on the concept of individual autonomy rather than on the principles of justice

Milosevich, Mira, and Julio Crespo (eds), Isaiah Berlin: un liberal en perspectiva ([Madrid,] 2008: FAES)

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata, Pluralizm wartosci i jego implikacje w filozofii prawa [Value Pluralism and Its Implications for the Philosophy of Law] (Kraków, 2008: Ksiegarnia Akademicka)

Piatti Morganti, Bruna, Isaiah Berlin: L’ethos in politica: una questione in-attuale (Urbino, 2008: QuattroVenti)

*A Tribute to Isaiah Berlin

• Interview on IB with John Gray; includes clip of IB from 105
• First transmission: 6 June 2009 ABC Radio National, Australia
• Duration: 25 minutes
• Series: The Philosopher’s Zone
• Presenter: Alan Saunders
• Producer: Kyla Slaven
• Transcript: ABC website
• Recording: ABC website

A Conversation with Isaiah Berlin

• Interview with IB by John Merson, 1974
• First transmission: 13 June 2009 ABC Radio National, Australia
• Duration: 25 minutes
• Series: The Philosopher’s Zone
• Presenter: Alan Saunders
• Producer: Kyla Slaven
• Transcript: ABC website
• Recording: ABC website; YouTube

The Visitor from the Future: Isaiah Berlin

• Russian documentary
• First transmission: 9 September 2009, Russian TV, ‘Culture’ channel
• Duration: 25 minutes 29 seconds
• Series: Civilisation
• Interviewees: Igor Mordvinov, Anatoly Naiman (consultant)
• Producer: Elena Gryaznova
• Translation of soundtrack made for IBVL by Natal′ya Sarana
• Recording: YouTube

Akhmatova against Stalin

• Russian TV documentary (channel 5, St Petersburg); includes (segment 1, 20:16, 20:49, 22:08, 22:32; segment 2, 0:11, 13:55, 17:09, 18:40, 21:40) excerpts from Russian video footage (cameraman: Vyacheslav Stepanov) of interview by Vsevolod Shishkovsky (London correspondent of Russian State TV and Radio) with IB about Akhmatova etc. at Headington House (cf. items 80, 80a); also includes dramatic reconstructions of parts of IB’s visit to AA
• First transmission: 16 December 2009
• Duration: 47 minutes; IB first mentioned 12:00
• Series: Novaya Versiya
• Presenter: Lev Lur'e
• Interviewees: Mikhail Ardov, Anna Kaminskaya, Stanislav Lekarev, Leonid Mlechin, Nina Popova, Vitaly Shentalinsky, Roman Timenchik
• Recording (divided into two segments, each of 23 minutes 30 seconds): segment 1; segment 2

Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960, ed. Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes (London, 2009, Chatto and Windus; London, 2011: Pimlico)

• letter of 28 June 1958 to Rowland Burdon-Muller repr. as ‘Shostakovich at Oxford’, New York Review of Books, 16 July 2009, 22–3 (see also Bib.263 above), and in facsimile in Stephen Hebron, Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries (Oxford, 2014: Bodleian Library Publishing), cat. 80, 237–41 at 238–41
• other extracts in Prospect, June 2009, 80

Letters to Lydia Chukovskaya, in Elena Chukovskaya (ed.), ‘“... esli by vdrug pozvonil Evgenii Onegin ili Taras Bul´ ba”: perepiska sera Isaii Berlina s Lidiei Chukovskoi’ [‘“... if you have suddenly been phoned by Eugene Onegin or Taras Bulba”: The Correspondence of Sir Isaiah Berlin and Lydia Chukovskaya’], Novyi Mir 2009 no. 12 (December 2009), 148–72

• English translations of parts of some letters in Building and Affirming

John Merson, ‘A Conversation with Isaiah Berlin [in 1974]’, ABC Radio National website

Allen, Jonathan, ‘What's the Matter with Monism?’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 12 no. 3 (2009), 469–89

Billington, James H., ‘A Humanist’s Conversation with the 20th Century (Isaiah Berlin, 1909–1997)’, British Academy Review issue 14 (November 2009), 22–4