The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Yack, Bernard, ‘The Significance of Isaiah Berlin’s Counter-Enlightenment’, European Journal of Political Theory 12 no. 1 (2013), 49–60

Zakaras, Alex, ‘A Liberal Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and John Stuart Mill’, Review of Politics 75 no. 1 (2013), 69–96

Zakaras, Alex, ‘Reply to Galston and Crowder’, Review of Politics 75 no. 1 (2013), 111–14

Cherniss, Joshua L., A Mind and Its Time: The Development of Isaiah Berlin’s Political Thought (Oxford, 2013: Oxford University Press)

• View document, below, for reviews

Caute, David, Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic (New Haven and London, 2013: Yale University Press)

• The 'Isaac' is the historian, biographer (of Trotsky and Stalin) and activist Isaac Deutscher, whom IB loathed
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Albert, Simon, ‘The Wartime “Special Relationship”, 1941–45: Isaiah Berlin, Freya Stark and Mandate Palestine’, MSc thesis, LSE (2013)

Drugge, Oskar Daniel, ‘Moral Conflict, Tragedy and Political Action in Isaiah Berlin’s Political Thought’, Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia (2013)

Grieco, Pasquale, ‘La Filosofia della Libertà di Isaiah Berlin’ (‘Isaiah Berlin’s Philosophy of Liberty’), BA thesis, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 2013

Shen, Ming-Cong, 'Anti-Procrustean Liberalism: On Isaiah Berlin’s Anti-Monist Philosophy and Political Thought’, Ph.D. thesis, National Yat-Sen University (2013)

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Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin: The Price of a Conversation

• Russian radio report
• Series: Above the Barriers: American Hour
• First transmission: 2 June 2014
• Duration: (whole programme) 28 minutes 18 seconds; (section on AA and IB) 5 minutes, from 13:22 to 18:22
• Presenter: Aleksandr Genis
• Recording: Podster

Sir Isaiah

• Russian TV report (First Latvian Channel) on the 2014 IB Day in Riga
• Posted: 4 June 2014
• Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds
• Reporters: Tatiana Kovalenko, Spartaka Lukashevicha
• Recording: YouTube
• Publication: for the proceedings of the whole event see official website

Bowen and Betjeman

• Radio play by John Banville; IB played by Nick Dunning
• First transmission: 14/2/2014, BBC Radio4
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Repeat: 4.15 pm, 21/3/2016, BBC Radio 4
• Author: John Banville
• Producer Gemma McMullan

Summary

• Award-winning novelist John Banville imagines an encounter between Elizabeth Bowen and John Betjeman as they meet for luncheon in a Dublin hotel during the Second World War. As their conversation ranges over their lives, their loves, their politics, we are given a portrait of wartime Dublin and London and of the place of the artist in a world at war.

‘ “Two Concepts of Liberty”: Early Texts’, incorporating some of Bib.282 (q.v.), in Freedom and its Betrayal (2nd ed., 2014)

‘The Concise “Two Concepts of Liberty”: What Isaiah Berlin Said on 31 October 1958’ (delivery text of IB’s inaugural lecture), in Political Ideas in the Romantic Age (2nd. ed., Princeton, 2014)

Abramsky, Sasha, The House of 20,000 Books (London, 2014: Halban)

• references to IB at 34, 74, 103, 115, 116. 117, 131–2, 196
• illustrations between 212 & 213, 214, 259, 261, 263, 275, 293, 296, 197, 308

Chamberlain, Lesley, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Policeman’

• Lesley Chamberlain, writer and critic – blog post

Cherniss, Joshua, ‘Against “Engineers of Human Souls”: Isaiah Berlin’s Anti-Managerial Liberalism’, History of Political Thought 35 no. 3 (Autumn 2014), 565–88

Colen, J. A., ‘The Language of Human Rights: Isaiah Berlin, Raymond Aron and Leo Strauss’, CEPS – Publicações dos investigadores do CEPS

Coser, Ivo, ‘The Concept of Liberty: the Polemic between the Neo-Republicans and Isaiah Berlin’, Brazilian Political Science Review 8 no. 3 (September–December 2014), 39–65