The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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Bib.87

(unattributed) ‘The Road to Catastrophe’, review of Hans Kohn, The Mind of Germany, and G. P. Gooch, French Profiles: Prophets and Pioneers, The Times Literary Supplement, 30 March 1962, 216

  • see also the letter, 20 April 1962, 265
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Bib.87(a)

(with others) telegram dated 22 February 1962 to János Kádár, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Budapest, urging the release of István Bibó, in ‘Dr Bibo’s Release Again Urged’, The Times, 6 March 1962, 15c

  • repr. in Iván Zoltán Dénes, ‘Personal Liberty and Political Freedom: Four Interpretations’, European Journal of Political Theory 7 no. 1 (January 2008), 81–98 at 94 (signatories listed at 97)
  • trans. Hungarian; cf. Bib.83(a)
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Bib.87(b)

Endorsement of Raphael R. Abramovich, The Soviet Revolution, 1917–1939 (London, 1962: Allen & Unwin; New York, 1962: International Universities Press)

  • cited in a publisher’s advertisement for the book, ALA Bulletin 56 no. 4 (April 1962), 286, and elsewhere

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Bib.101(b)

The Addiction of Russian Intellectuals to Historicism

  • Talk given at the Russian Research Center at Harvard, 12/12/1962
  • Transcribed by a stenographer but not recorded
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  • (In Chinese, in part) trans. and ed. Li Xue, Russian Literature and Arts 2024 no. 3, 4–20.
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Bib.294

‘A Great Russian Critic: Vissarion Grigor'evich Belinsky’ (1962), in The Sense of Reality (2nd ed., 2019)

I.1

Bamber Gascoigne, ‘Freedom of Speech’, in The Four Freedoms, no. 1, ATV, 1962

  • revised version of IB's draft of replies in Ted Honderich (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford, 1995: Oxford University Press), s.v. ‘Liberty’ (Bib.221)
Interviews
OA.42

Gomme, A. W., More Essays on Greek History and Literature (Oxford, 1962: Blackwell), 154–5, 171–3

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OA.43

Kaufman, A. S., ‘Professor Berlin on “Negative Freedom” ’, Mind 71 (1962), 241–3

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OA.44

Nicholls, David, ‘Positive Liberty, 1880–1914’, American Political Science Review 56 (1962), 114–28, at 114 note 8

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T.84

‘[Chaim Weizmann:] The Biographical Facts’

French

Hebrew

Spanish

  • ‘Datos biograficos’, in Jaim Weizmann: forjador del renacimiento judio: centenario de Weizmann 1874–1974, ed. Dan Leon and Yehuda Adin, trans. Alma Khayenko (Jerusalem, 1974: Biblioteca Sionista), 35–98
Translations
T.85

‘The Purpose of Philosophy’

Estonian

Japanese

  • ‘Tetsugaku no mokuteki’, trans. Takehiko Morinaga, Selected Works of Berlin, vol. 2 (Tokyo, 1983: Iwanami Shoten)

Lithuanian

  • Trans. Alvydas Jokubaitis, in Vienove ir ivairove: zvilgsniai i idejuistorija (Vilnius, 1995: Amzius); Lithuanian translations of Bibs. 44, 71,73, 118, 122, 134, 159, 161 appear in the same volume

Russian

  • Trans. Boris Dynin, in Voprosy filosofii no. 5 (1999), 91–8

Ukrainian

  • ‘Meta filosofii’, trans. and with a foreword by Dmytro Sepetyi, in Humanitarian Vision 9 no. 2 (2023), 43–8 (foreword 41–2)

 

Translations
Bib.88

Contribution to Clara Urquhart (ed.), A Matter of Life (London, 1963: Cape), 39–40

  • on civil disobedience
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Bib.89

‘Historical Note’, in Khovanshchina (opera programme) ([London], 1963: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Ltd), 5 pp.

  • repr. in the 1972 programme as ‘Programme Note: Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)’
  • as ‘Khovanshchina’ in the 1982 programme and San Francisco Opera, Fall Season 1984, 34–8
  • with revisions as ‘A Note on “ Khovanshchina” ’, New York Review of Books, 19 December 1985, 40–2
  • excerpted as ‘Stasov, Mussorgsky and Khovanshchina’ in The Kirov Opera (opera programme) ([London], 2005: Royal Opera House), 24
  • See also the compilation 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299
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Bib.90

‘Why are these books neglected?’, Twentieth Century 172 no. 1019 (Autumn 1963), 139–47

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Bib.90(a)

(with others) ‘Dr Ranger’s Expulsion’, The Times, 11 February 1963, 11

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OA.45

El′sberg, Ya. E., ‘Ideinaya bor′ba vokrug naslediya Gertsena b nashe vremya’ [The ideological battle over Herzen’s legacy to our age], in Yu. G. Oksman (ed.), Problemy izucheniya Gertsena (Moscow, 1963: Izdatel′stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR)

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OA.46

Mehta, Ved, Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (Boston, 1963: Atlantic/Little, Brown)

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OA.47

Rotenstreich, Nathan, ‘Historical Inevitability and Human Responsibility’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 23 (March 1963), 380–96

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B.28

The Oxford Way

  • Conversation with Alexander Kendrick
  • First transmission: 1/2/64 CBS television (USA)
  • Series: One of a Kind
  • Producer: Ted Holmes
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B.29

'In Conversation with J. B. Priestley and A. J. Ayer'

  • An  episode  from J. B. Priestley’s BBC TV series ‘Conversations for Tomorrow’
  • ‘After-dinner talk’ with J. B. Priestley and A. J. Ayer
  • Recording date: 26 March 1964
  • First transmission: 10.30 pm 25 April 1964 BBC Television
  • Duration: c.35 minutes
  • Presenter: J. B. Priestley
  • Transcript: BBC film library; copy at BLSA
  • Recording: BBC film library; copy at BLSA, Tape V600
  • Publication: online on this site
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