The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Schmidt, James, ‘Robert Wokler, J. G. A. Pocock, and the Hunt for an Eighteenth-Century Usage of “Counter-Enlightenment” ’, Persistent Enlightenment (blog), 12 October 2016

• see also other posts, discoverable by searching for ‘Isaiah Berlin’

Smith, Steven B., ‘The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin’, chapter 13 (267–89) of Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow (New Haven and London, 2016: Yale University Press)

• IB is also mentioned elsewhere in the book

Tamir, Yuli, ‘Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997): Unpretentious Passion’, in Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal (eds), Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made (Princeton, 2016: Princeton University Press), 480–92

Tīrons, Uldis, ‘Naiman kak Nikto: s poetom Anatoliem Naimanom beseduet Uldis Tirons’, Rīgas Laiks (Russian edition), Summer 2016, 70–81

• an interview with Anatoly Naiman, who gave the Isaiah Berlin Lecture in Riga on 9 June 2016 (watch here)
• Latvian translation, ‘Naimans kā Neviens: ar dzejnieku Anatoliju Naimanu sarunajas Uldis Tīrons’, Rīgas Laiks (Latvian edition), June 2016, 20–31
• a Latvian translation of an except from Naiman’s Ser follows

Brockliss, Laurence, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment (Oxford, 2016: Oxford University Press)

• contributions to a conference of the same title held at Wolfson College, Oxford, 20–22 March 2014

Review:

• Blattberg, Charles, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 21 March 2017

Granovskaya [previously Martynenko], Ol'ga Leonidovna,‘Intellektual'noe nasledie I. Berlina i antinomii liberal'noi filosofii vtoroi poloviny XX veka (istoriko-filosofskii analiz)’ [‘Berlin’s Political Thought and the Antinomies of Liberal Philosophy in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century]’ (Historical and Philosophical Analysis)’, PhD thesis, Moscow State Pedagogical University, 2016

Páez Lancheros, Mario, ‘Las fronteras del pluralismo liberal: la versión romántico-agonista del liberalismo en Isaiah Berlin’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Chile (2016)

Villaro Mañes, María I. [Mariona Gumpert],‘Bases epistemológicas y antropológicas de la filosofía de Isaiah Berlin’, Ph.D. thesis, Navarra (2016)

Missing Isaiah Berlin

• 'Sir Isaiah Berlin died 20 years ago. Where are the Berlins of today? Jonathan Wolff asks.'
• Examination of the role of the public intellectual, to mark the 20th anniversary of Berlin’s death in 1997
• First transmission: 8.00 pm 4/11/17 BBC Radio 4
• Duration: 58 minutes
• Series: Archive on 4
• Presenter: Jonathan Wolff
• Speakers: Stefan Collini, Daniel Drezner, Claire Fox, Timothy Garton Ash, Henry Hardy, Mary Warnock
• Recording: BBC Sounds

Producer: Dom Byrne, Blakeway Productions

(in Chinese translation) Letter to Harry Jaffa, 24 May 1992, translated and with a commentary by Ma Hualing, Dushu [Reading] 2017 no. 3 (March), 73–82

• about the difference between Berlin’s views and those of Leo Strauss
• the English original is published online in More Affirming - supplementary letters 1975-1997

Butin, Alexis, ‘Isaiah Berlin: A Twentieth-Century Thinker’

• based on a paper presented at an international seminar on IB’s negative and positive freedom on 29 May 2017 at Université Paris II
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Butin, Alexis, ‘Isaiah Berlin: un intellectuel britannique engagé pour la liberté’, Mentalities/Mentalités 29 no. 4 (2017), 12 pp.

Chanyshev, A. A., ‘Leo Shtraus i Isaiya Berlin o ponimanii klassicheskikh tekstov’ [‘Leo Strauss and Isaiah Berlin on Understanding Classical Texts’], in A. I. Voloshin and others (eds), Schola-2017: Politicheskaya tekstologiya i istoriya iei [Schola-2017: Political Textology and the History of ideas] (Moscow, 2017: Moscow University Press), 566–71

Cherniss, Joshua L., ‘Liberal Understanding for Troubled Times: Isaiah Berlin’s Insights and Our Moment of Populist Revolt’, Critique, 15 January 2017

Cherniss, Joshua L., ‘Isaiah Berlin: Russo-Jewish Roots, Liberal Commitments, and the Ethos of Pluralism’, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 30 (2017), 183–99

• published online 7 February 2017

Dubnov, Arie M., ‘Can Parallels Meet? Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin on the Jewish Post-Emancipatory Quest for Political Freedom’, The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 62 (2017), 27–51

• published online 2 August 2017

Hama, Shinichiro, ‘Berlin “Hutatsu no jiyu gainen” no genkei’ [‘The Original Model of Berlin’s “Two Concepts of Liberty” ’], in K. Nakamura, T. Kiriyama and K. Yamamoto (eds), Shakai Henkaku to Shakai Kagaku [Social Change and Social Science] (Kyoto, 2017: Showado)

Hama, Shinichiro, ‘Berlin jiyuron to Herzen: Roshia ni okeru Doitsu Romanshugi’ [‘Berlin and Herzen on Individual Liberty: German Romanticism in Russia’], Doshisha Hogaku [The Doshisha Law Review (The Doshisha Law Association, Faculty of Law, Doshisha University)] 68 no. 8 (2017), 1–21

Hama, Shinichiro, ‘Isaiah Berlin no nashonarizumu ron’ [‘Isaiah Berlin on Nationalism’], Doshisha Hogaku [The Doshisha Law Review] 68 no. 5 (2017), 65–96

Hama, Shinichiro, ‘Berlin “Hutatsu no Jiyu Gainen” no Genkei’ [‘The Original Model of Berlin’s “Two Concepts of Liberty” ’], in K. Nakamura, T. Kiriyama and K. Yamamoto (eds), Shakai Henkaku to Shakai Kagaku [Social Change and Social Science] (Kyoto, 2017: Showado)