The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

'Are We Naturally Good?', review of Henry Vyverberg, Historical Pessimism in the French Enlightenment, French Studies 14 (1960), 167–70

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(with others) ‘S.A. Boycott’ (letter), Isis, 11 May 1960, 19

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Letter from IB to the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement, 2 December 1960, 779, on 'Tolstoy and the Enlightenment'

• Occasioned by the TLS editorial (author, C. M. Woodhouse), Friday 25 November 1960, issue number 3065, 759, 'Tolstoy and Enlightenment'
• Both the editorial and IB's letter were occasioned by IB's lecture ‘Tolstoy and Enlightenment’, the Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture for 1960 (Bib.82)

Bobbio, Norberto, ‘Kant e le due libertà’ (1960), in id., Teoria generale della politica, ed. Michelangelo Bovero (Turin, 1999: Einaudi), 40–53

Cohen, M., ‘Berlin and the Liberal Tradition’, Philosophical Quarterly 10 (1960), 216–27

Nagel, E., ‘Determinism in History’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 20 (1959–60), 291–317, at 311–16

[Woodhouse, C.M.,] ‘Tolstoy and Enlightenment’, The Times Literary Supplement, 25 November 1960, 759

• discusses IB’s lecture ‘Tolstoy and Enlightenment’ (see B.20 and Bib.82)

‘Introduction’ to Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution

Russian

‘Russkoe narodnichestvo’, trans. S. Boroditsky, in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

‘History and Theory: The Concept of Scientific History’

German

(in part)

Japanese

‘Rekishi to riron: kagakuteki rekishi no gainen’, trans. Hideo Uchiyama, Rekishi ni okeru kagaku toha Nanika, ed. and trans. H. Uchiyama (Tokyo, 1978: Sanichi Shobo)

Russian

‘Estestvennaya li nauka istoriya?’, trans. I. Sverdlov, in Filosofiya svobody: Evropa (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Spanish

‘Marx’ (in J. O. Urmson (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers (London, 1960: Hutchinson; 2nd ed. 1975))

Spanish

‘The Philosophical Ideas of GiambattistaVico’

Hebrew

Tolstoy and Enlightenment: the Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture for 1960

• Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture for 1960 (sponsored by P.E.N.)
• Recording date: 23/11/60, Friends’ House, London
• First transmission: 9.15 pm 7/1/61 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 40 minutes
• Repeat(s): 6.50 pm 19/3/61 BBC Third Programme
• Producer: Anna Kallin
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BLSA Tape T10780R
• Publication: ‘Tolstoy and Enlightenment’, Encounter 16 No 2 (February 1961), 29–40 (Bib.82)

Tagore

• Insert for Rabindranath Tagore Centenary [7/5/61] Programmes For India
• Recording date: 16/11/60
• First transmission: 7/5/61?
• Transcript: not at BBC Written Archives under Tagore [a preparatory typescript, and the lecture used as a source (Bib.234), are in the Berlin Papers in Oxford]

Equality 1: In Search of a Definition

• Discussion with Stuart Hampshire (chair), Herbert Hart, Enoch Powell, Bernard Williams, Raymond Williams
• Recording date: 6/6/61
• First transmission: 9.10 pm 25/11/61 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 59 minutes 31 seconds
• Repeat(s): 9.00 pm 14/12/61 BBC Third Programme
• Series: Equality (No 1 of 6)
• Presenter: Stuart Hampshire
• Producer: Helen Arbuthnot
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives; 2 early (i.e. not finally edited) drafts in Berlin papers
• Recording: (first 32 minutes only) BLSA Tape T11066R

The Philosophy of History

• Talk
• First transmission: 29/11/61, BBC All India Radio
• Duration: 18 minutes 8 seconds
• Transcript: Berlin Papers
• Recording: All India Radio; BLSA Tape C350/3

‘La théorie politique existe-t-elle?’, Revue française de science politique 11 (1961), 309–37

• repr. in English as ‘Does Political Theory Still Exist?’ in Peter Laslett and W. G. Runciman (eds), Philosophy, Politics and Society, 2nd Series (Oxford, 1962: Blackwell): see also Michael Oakeshott's review of Laslett and Runciman, Philosophical Quarterly 15 no. 60 (July 1965), 281–2; Oakeshott's remarks on IB (his only published comments on his work?) are on 282
• repr. in Concepts and Categories, and Proper Study of Mankind
• trans. Estonian, Japanese, Spanish

(unattributed) ‘Research Institutions’, chapter 9 of Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences: Report of a Survey by the British Academy 1958–1960 (London, 1961: Oxford University Press)

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‘Aristotelian Society Synopses II’, contributions (on 36 and 64) to J. W. Scott (ed.), A Synoptic Index to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. II: 1950–1959 (London, 1961: Harrison & Sons), 16–18

‘Tolstoy and Enlightenment’, Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture for 1960, Encounter 16 no. 2 (February 1961), 29–40

• repr. in Mightier Than The Sword (London, 1964: Macmillan), Ralph E. Matlaw (ed.), Tolstoy: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, [1967]: Prentice-Hall)
• repr.Russian Thinkers
• trans. Russian, Spanish
• see also Bib.80(b), IB to the Editor, TLS, 2 December 1960; and the BBC broadcast, B.20, which was first transmitted 7/1/61

'The Evils of Nationalism', review of Elie Kedourie, Nationalism, Oxford Magazine, New Series 1 (1960–1), 147–8

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