The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

More Building - supplementary letters 1960-1975

An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Building: Letters 1960–1975 (London, 2013: Chatto and Windus; London, 2016: Pimlico)

• First posted 19 December 2019
• Latest updated (i.e. this edition) 25 September 2024

The four published volumes of Berlin's letters focus on the outgoing letters, i.e. those written by him. Where we have the other side of the correspondence, and have been able to secure the necessary copyright permission, the online supplements will now also include a selection of the more important letters written to Berlin - among them, to date, are letters from the Riga-born Harvard philosopher Judith Shklar, and the US diplomat and historian George Kennan.

• Included in this update are two very interesting 1964 letters to the German philosopher and social critic, Theodor Adorno, about (among other things) Covent Garden's production of Moses and Aaron, which IB had championed.

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More Affirming - supplementary letters 1975-1997

An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Affirming: Letters 1975–1997 (London, 2015: Chatto and Windus; London, 2017, Pimlico)

• First posted 18 January 2019
• Last updated (i.e. this edition) 13 April 2024

The four published volumes of Berlin's letters focus on the outgoing letters, i.e. those written by him. Where we have the other side of the correspondence, and have been able to secure the necessary copyright permission, the online supplements will now also include a selection of the more important letters written to Berlin:

• Included in this and the last update are letters from the Riga-born Harvard philosopher Judith Shklar, and two letters from the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones, about Roger Scruton's eightieth-birthday 'tribute' to Berlin in The Times, 'Freedom's Cautious Defender', on 3 June 1986, and the controversy arising.

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Supplement to Affirming: 'More Explaining: Isaiah Berlin on his own ideas'

• Letters and other writings with specific relevance to the understanding of Berlin's thought, which were not included in Affirming
• First posted in Isaiah Berlin Online 18 January 2019
• Last revised (i.e. this edition) 16 October 2021

'Music Chronicle' - an online collection of the five articles published in Oxford Outlook 1930–2 under the pseudonym ‘Albert Alfred Apricott’ (‘A.A.A.’ except in the first case)

• i) Oxford Outlook 10 no. 53 (November 1930), 616–27 (see Bib.2(b))
• ii) Oxford Outlook 11 no. 54 (March 1931), 49–53 (see Bib.6)
• iii) Oxford Outlook 11 no. 55 (June 1931), 131–5 (see Bib.7)
• iv) Oxford Outlook 12 no. 57 (February 1932), 61–5 (see Bib.12)
• v) Oxford Outlook 12 no. 58 (May 1932), 133–8 (see Bib.13)

Moments Musicaux: Occasional Essays on Opera (2019): an online collection of musical notes previously published separately as:

• 'Mozart at Glyndebourne' (Bib.186)
• 'Tchaikovsky and Eugene Onegin' (Bib.124)
• 'Khovanshchina' (Bib.89)
• 'Performances memorable — and not so memorable' (Bib.144)
• 'Surtitles' (Bib.192(b) )

See also the more comprehensive collection 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299

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Letters to David Carver and Edward Crankshaw, in Paolo Mancosu, ‘P.E.N. International, Isaiah Berlin, and the Ivinskaya Case’

• from his blog Inside the Zhivago Storm
• see also OA.1245, Paolo Mancosu, ‘P.E.N. International, Isaiah Berlin, and the Ivinskaya Case’

Tutor de Ureta, Andrés, ‘Incompatibility, Incommensurability, and Rationality in Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin’s Case’, European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 24 no. 2 (2019), 146–61

• published online 8 November 2018

Blackwell, Kenneth, Giovanni D. De Carvalho and Harry Ruja (introduction by John G. Slater), ‘A Secondary Bibliography of A History Of Western Philosophy, part I: Extracted Reviews in English’, Russell n.s. 39 (Summer 2019), 73–96 at 77–8

Wahl, Russell, ‘The Reception of Russell’s A History Of Western Philosophy’, Russell n.s. 39 (Summer 2019), 46–56, esp. 49–50

Blattberg, Charles, ‘Taking Politics Seriously – But Not Too Seriously’, Philosophy 94, no. 2 (April 2019), 271–94

• longer version
• abstract

Brandis, George, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Defence of Liberty’, Conservative History Journal 2 no. 7 (Autumn 2019), 18–22

• the 2019 Isaiah Berlin Lecture at the Latvian Embassy, London
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Butin, Alexis, ‘Isaiah Berlin et la Révolution romantique au Royaume-Uni’, in Élizabeth Durot-Boucé (ed.), Boomerang: D’idées et de désirs (Rennes, 2019: Travaux d’Investigation et de Recherche), 155–72

Coser, Ivo, ‘Dois Conceitos de Liberdade: 60 anos após a sua publicação’ [‘Two Concepts of Liberty: Sixty Years after Its Publication’], Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 34 no. 100 (21 pp.)

Coser, Ivo, ‘Lei, liberdade e diversidade de fins no pluralismo de valores’ [‘Law, Freedom and the Diversity of Ends in Value Pluralism’], Lua Nova (São Paulo) 107 (May–August 2019), 169–202

Crowder, George, The Problem of Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and Beyond (New York, 2019: Routledge)

Crowder, George, ‘Value Pluralism: Crucial Complexities’, Analyse & Kritik 41 no. 2 (November 2019), 321–36

• reply to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, ‘The Crucifix Dispute and Value Pluralism’ (2019) (OA.1247)

Della Casa, Alessandro, ‘Da monista a “liberale”: i Machiavelli di Isaiah Berlin’ [‘From Monist to “Liberal”: Isaiah Berlin’s Machiavellis’], Rinascimento 59 (2019), 97–116

• View Document (below) for an English language abstract

Della Casa, Alessandro, ‘Razionalismo e realismo in politica: Isaiah Berlin e Michael Oakeshott negli anni Cinquanta’ (‘Rationalism and Realism in Politics: Isaiah Berlin and Michael Oakeshott in the 1950s’), Rivista di filosofia 2019 no. 1 (April), 131–53

• There is an English language summary on p. 152

Gonzales, Carlos Esteban, ‘La cuestión de la inteligibilidad en el pluralismo de Isaiah Berlin: una revisión del pensamiento de Giambattista Vico’, in José Manuel Chillón Lorenzo, Ángel Martínez Ortega and Pablo Frontela Asensio (eds), Hombre y logos: antropología y comunicación (Madrid, 2019: Fragua), 225–36

Granovskaya, Ol'ga Leonidovna, ‘Berlin i Bakhtin: plyuralizm, polyfoniya i kritika relyativizma’ [‘Berlin and Bakhtin: Pluralism, Polyphony and the Criticism of Relativism’], Voprosy filosofii 2019 no. 12, 41–51