The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

‘What is History?’ (an exchange of letters with E. H. Carr), Listener 65 (1961), 877, 1048–9

• repr. at Enlightening 41–2, 48–50

(with others) telegram dated 14 March 1961 to Ferenc Münnich, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Budapest, urging the release of István Bibó, in ‘Release of Hungarian Professor Urged’, The Times, 17 March 1961, 7f

• repr. – with different wording, probably because back-translated from Tibor Huszár (ed.), István Bibó (1911–1979): Életút dokumentumokban [A Life in Documents] (Budapest, 1995: 1956-os Intézet-Osiris-századvég), 543
• in Iván Zoltán Dénes, ‘Personal Liberty and Political Freedom: Four Interpretations’, European Journal of Political Theory 7 no. 1 (January 2008), 81–98 at 93 (signatories listed at 97)
• trans. Hungarian; cf. Bib.87(a)
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Comment on Rabindranath Tagore, Towards Universal Man (London, 1961)

• Printed on the back panel of the book jacket
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Carr, E. H., What is History? (London, 1961: Macmillan), 91–3

• see also ‘What is History? II Society and the Individual’, Listener, 27 April 1961, 731–3 at 732
• ‘What is History?’ (letter), ibid., 1 June 1961, 973, 975

[Deutscher, Isaac,], ‘Between Past and Future’, The Times Literary Supplement, 17 November 1961, 813–14

Leff, Gordon, The Tyranny of Concepts: A Critique of Marxism (London, 1961), 146–9

Nagel, E., The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation (London, 1961: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 599–605

David Spitz, ‘The Nature and Limits of Freedom’, Dissent 8 (1961–2) no. 1 (Winter 1961), 78–85, at 79–82

Strauss, Leo, ‘ “Relativism” ’, in Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins (eds), Relativism and the Study of Man (Princeton, 1961), 135–57

• repr. in The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, ed. T. L. Pangle (Chicago and London, 1989: University of Chicago Press)

[Utley, T. E.,] ‘The Wood and the Trees’, The Times Literary Supplement, 10 March 1961, 153

• discusses IB’s lecture John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life (Bib.74)

‘La théorie politique existe-t-elle?’

Estonian

French

In Revue Française de Science Politique no. 2 (June 1961), 309–37

Japanese

‘Seiji riron ha mada sonzai suruka’, trans. Kanichi Fukuda, in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)

Spanish

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

Hebrew

In Molad, vol 19 (1961), 17–29

Russian

‘Tolstoy i Prosveshchenie’, trans. V. Mikhailin, in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Spanish

(with others) telegram to Ferenc Münnich

Hungarian

• ‘For István Bibó’, Irodalmi Újság (1 April 1961)
• repr. in Iván Zoltán Dénes, ‘Isaiah Berlin és Bibó Istváán szabadság értelmezésének összehasonlítása’ [‘A Comparison of Isaiah Berlin’s and István Bibó’s Interpretations of Liberty’], in id., Euróaimintakövetés – nemzeti öncélúság: Értékvilág és identitáskeresés a 19–20.századi Magyarországon [Adoption of European Models versus National Self-Centeredness: Value Systems and the Search for Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Hungary] (Budapest, 2001: Új Mandátum), 266, 281 (note 491)

Equality 3: Equality, Education and Culture

• Discussion with Lord Gladwyn, Stuart Hampshire (chair), Richard Hoggart, Richard Wollheim, George Woodcock
• Recording date: 10/7/61
• First transmission: 29/1/62 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 45 minutes 36 seconds
• Repeat(s): 8.00 pm 23/2/62 BBC Third Programme
• Series: Equality (No 3 of 6)
• Presenter: Stuart Hampshire
• Producer: Helen Arbuthnot
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives; drafts of Hampshire’s opening and of whole discussion in Berlin Papers
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives LP27468; BLSA Tape T10146W

Freedom of Speech

• Interview with Bamber Gascoigne
• Recording date: 10/1/62
• First transmission: 2.45–3.45 pm 11/2/62 ATV (Associated Television)
• Duration: 45 minutes (IB 2 minutes)
• Series: The Four Freedoms (No 2 of 5)
• Presenter: Bamber Gascoigne
• Producer: Christopher Morahan
• Transcript: unedited version in Berlin Papers (9 minutes 24 seconds); IB’s draft of replies in Berlin Papers
• Recording: Granada International; BLSA has copy of soundtrack – BLSA Tape H6439
• Publication: revised version of Bib.221, i.e. IB’s draft of replies in Ted Honderich (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford, 1995: Oxford University Press), s.v. ‘Liberty’; reprinted in The Power of Ideas

[Equality] 5: Equality between People and Nations

• Discussion with John Foster, Stuart Hall, Stuart Hampshire (chair), Joan Robinson
• Recording date: [before 23/3/62]
• First transmission: 8.00 pm 30/3/62 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 49 minutes
• Repeat(s): 5.00 pm 15/4/62 BBC Third Programme
• Series: Equality (No 5 of 6)
• Presenter: Stuart Hampshire
• Producer: Archie Gordon
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives; Berlin Papers [draft and final]
• Recording: BLSA: Tape T11066W

Literature and Life

• Talk on All India Radio
• Recording date: ?/?/60?
• First transmission: 28/3/62
• Duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: All India Radio (copy at BLSA, Tape C350/36)

‘The Life of Chaim Weizmann’, originally ‘The Biographical Facts’, in Meyer W. Weisgal and Joel Carmichael (eds), Chaim Weizmann: A Biography by Several Hands (London, 1962: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New York, 1963: Atheneum), 17–56

• ‘a brilliant survey’: [Norman Bentwich,] The Times Literary Supplement, 21 December 1962, 983
• repr. in Dan Leon and Yehuda Adin (eds), Chaim Weizmann, Statesman of the Jewish Renaissance (Jerusalem, 1974: The Zionist Library)
• trans. French, Hebrew, Spanish
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‘The Purpose of Philosophy’, Insight (Nigeria) 1 no. 1 (July 1962), 12–15

• repr. in the Sunday Times, 4 November 1962, 23, 26
• repr. Viewpoint no. 6 (1963 no. 2), 29–31
• repr. as ‘Philosophy’s Goal’ in Leonard Russell (ed.), Encore, 2nd Year (London, 1963: Michael Joseph)
• repr. as ‘Philosophy’s Goal’ in Concepts and Categories and in The Power of Ideas
• excerpted as ‘A “ Dangerous but Important Activity” ’ in University: A Princeton Quarterly no. 28 (Spring 1966), 1
• repr. in Van Cleve Morris [ (ed.)], Modern Movements in Educational Philosophy (Boston, [1969]: Houghton Mifflin), 9–11)
• trans. Estonian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian

‘Mr Carr’s Big Battalions’, review of E. H. Carr, What is History?, New Statesman 63 (January–June 1962), 5 January 1962, 15–16

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