The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Lyons, Johnny, 'Discovering Isaiah Berlin: Johnny Lyons in conversation with Henry Hardy, June 2019'

• A filmed interview with Henry Hardy, with the focus on Isaiah Berlin, made by Johnny Lyons
• Available on YouTube in short (1 hour) and long (2 hour) versions
• View Document (below) for transcript

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata (ed.), Społeczeństwo otwarte, społeczeństwo zamknięte: eseje i szkice (Open Society, Closed Society: Essays and Sketches) (Kraków, 2020: Księgarnia Akademicka)

Dimova-Cookson, Maria, Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (London, 2020: Routledge)

Granovskaya, O. L., D. N. Drozdova and A. M. Rutkevich, Perekrestki kul´tur: Aleksandr Koire, Aleksandr Kozhev, Isaiya Berlin [Cultures at the Crossroads: Alexandre Koyré, Alexandre Kojève, Isaiah Berlin] (Moscow, 2020: Rosspen)

• the third part of the book, i.e. Granovskaya’s treatment of IB, is entitled ‘British Liberalism with a Russian Accent’
• NB: the authors are misleadingly styled as editors by the publisher

Lyons, Johnny, The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin (London, 2020: Bloomsbury)

• Review: David Fott, Interpretation, 47 no. 3 (Summer 2021), 569–73

Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin

• The Ideas Roadshow describes this podcast as ‘An in-depth conversation with Henry Hardy, Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and the author of In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure, about the many joys – and occasional frustrations – of being the principal editor of one of the twentieth century’s most captivating public intellectuals’
• Release date: 15/9/21
• Duration: 2 hours 36 seconds
• Series: Ideas Roadshow
• Presenter: Howard Burton
• Recording: New Books Network

 Memoir of Lady Patricia Douglas, in the online More Affirming - supplementary letters 1975-1997

Blattberg, Charles, ‘Gaps: When Not Even Nothing Is There’, Comparative Philosophy 12 no. 1 (January 2021), 31–55

Blattberg, Charles, ‘Isaiah Berlin and William James: Tragedy, Tragicomedy, Comedy’, The Pluralist 16 no. 3 (Fall 2021), 65–86

Blattberg, Charles, ‘Liberalism after Communitarianism’, in Gerard Delanty and Stephen Turner (eds), Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, 2nd ed. (New York, 2021: Routledge)

Bilakovics, Steven, ‘Paternalism, Individualism, and the Politics of Maturity’, Critical Review, published online 25 May 2021, 26 pp.

Chamberlain, Lesley, ‘A Meeting with Isaiah Berlin and a Few Reflections on His Quarrel with Roger Scruton’, blog post, 12 August 2021

Delaney, Paul, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Animal Instinct’, European Judaism 54 no. 1 (Spring 2021), 135–44

Neoh, Joshua, ‘Value Pluralism in the Political Form of Roman Catholicism’, Political Theology, published online 30 April 2021, 16 pp.

Kedourie, Elie, Nazionalismo (Macerata, 2021: Liberilibri)

• includes a translation of Bib.82(a), i.e. IB's 1961 review of the original English edition

Matsumoto, Reiji, and others, Isaiah Berlin, special issue of Shisō [Thought: the house magazine of Iwanami Shoten publishers, ed. Akikata Nishizawa and Jun Oshikawa]: no. 1166 (2021 no. 6: June)

• View Document (below) for PDF of the Contents, and also Matsumoto's essay 'Words of Thought: Theory, History and Expression in Berlin'

Menand, Louis, sections 2–4 of ‘Concepts of Liberty’, chapter 10 of his The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War (New York, 2021: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 335–52 (endnotes 772–4)

Sieff, Martin, Isaiah Berlin and Elie Kedourie: Recollections of Two Giants, Gobal Policy Institute, 27 September 2021

Lyons, Johnny, Isaiah Berlin and His Philosophical Contemporaries (Cham, 2021: Palgrave Macmillan)

Hiruta, Kei, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity (Princeton, 2021: Princeton University Press)

Review:

• Ball, Terence, ‘Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity’, Simply Charly, 5 April 2022
• Wang Qian, Shanghai Book Review, 17 May 2022 (in Chinese)