The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Thomas, D. O., ‘Political Philosophy Today’, Philosophy 40 (April 1965), 162–164

White, Morton, The Foundations of Historical Knowledge (New York, 1965: Harper & Row), 275 ff.

‘Herder and the Enlightenment’

Spanish

• ‘Herder’, trans. Hernando Valencia Goelkel, in ECO: Revista de lacultura de occidente (Bogota) 12, Nos 2–4 (December–February 1965) [Nos 68–70], respectively 133–58, 299–336, 392–424
• ‘Herder y la Illustración’, in Isaiah Berlin, Antología de ensayos, ed. Joaquín Abellán (Madrid, 1995: Espasa Calpe)

‘Sulla teoria del Vico circa la conoscenza storica’ In Lettere italiane 17 no. 4 (October–December 1965), 420–31

New Oxford College: an interview with Derek Cooper on IB's appointment as the founding ‘Master’ [i.e. President] of Wolfson College, Oxford

• Recording date: 29/6/66
• First transmission: 7.15/8.15 am 30/6/66 BBC Home Service
• Series: Today
• Presenter: Jack de Manio
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives (presenter’s contributions only); IB’s contributions transcribed by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives LP30291

Some Sources of Romanticism: the six A. W. Mellon Lectures (sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation), delivered at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March–April 1965 (there is a link to a recording of each lecture in the titles below):

1. In Search of a Definition
2. The First Attack on Enlightenment
3. The True Fathers of Romanticism
4. The Restrained Romantics
5. Unbridled Romanticism
6. The Lasting Effects

• Recording dates: 14/3, 21/3, 28/3, 4/4, 11/4, 18/4/65
• First transmission: 7.55 pm 10/8, 8.00 pm 16/8, 7.55 pm 23/8, 7.30 pm 29/8, 7.30 pm 5/9, 7.30 pm 12/9/66 BBC Third Programme
• Durations: 51 minutes 26 seconds, 57 minutes 45 seconds, 53 minutes 20 seconds, 58 minutes 7 seconds, 58 minutes 20 seconds, 69 minutes 32 seconds
• Repeat(s): 5/10, 9/10, 17/10, 24/10, 30/10, 6/11/67 BBC Third Programme (all at 7.30 pm); 1975 in Australia (without IB’s approval); 8.15 pm 6/6, 10.00 pm 12/6/89 etc. BBC Radio 3 in An Evening with Sir Isaiah Berlin
• Producer: Helen Rapp
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives; Berlin Papers
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T31558–63; BLSA Tapes T132R, T274W, T272W, T10191W, T256W, T275W

Joseph de Maistre

• Woodbridge Lecture, Columbia University, New York
• Recording date: (27?) October 1965
• Duration: 61 minutes
• Series: ‘Two Enemies of the Enlightenment’ (four lectures by IB, of which this was the 3rd – cf. previous item)
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (edited)
• Recording: BLSA Tape T11064WR; podcast; available on YouTube here
• Publication: cf. ‘Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism’, in The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (London, 1990: John Murray; New York, 1991: Knopf; London, 1991: Fontana Press; New York, 1992: Vintage Books) = Bib.200
• NB: there is no written or spoken record of the first and last of the four lectures

Seeing is Believing: The Role of Educational Television in Israel

• A short contribution to a 50-minute film made by the Instructional Television Trust (ITT), to mark the opening of Instructional Television - an initiative designed to create educational television for Israel
• Recording date: unknown
• First transmission: private screening by the ITT, Tel Aviv, 24 March 1966
• Publication: see Bib.106(b) for a transcript
• Recording (available only in Israel)

Introduction to Marc Raeff (ed.), Russian Intellectual History (New York/Chicago/Burlingame, 1966: Harcourt, Brace and World; Hassocks, 1978: Harvester; New York, 1978: Humanities Press), 3–11

• repr. as ‘Russian Intellectual History’ in The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)

Preface to H. G. Schenk, The Mind of the European Romantics (London, 1966: Constable; New York, 1969: Doubleday; Oxford, 1979: Oxford University Press), xiii–xviii

• repr. as ‘The Essence of European Romanticism’ in The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)
• trans. Japanese, Spanish

‘L. B. Namier: A Personal Impression’, in Martin Gilbert (ed.), A Century of Conflict, 1850–1950: Essays for A. J. P. Taylor (London, 1966: Hamish Hamilton)

• repr. in Encounter 27 no. 5 (November 1966), 32–42 (and see letter, 28 no. 1 (January 1967), 92 - view document below)
• Journal of Historical Studies 1 (1967–8), 117–36
• Personal Impressions

(with Mary McCarthy and others) ‘The Founders’ (letter), Time, 16 September 1966, 10

‘The Great Blood Libel Case’, review of Maurice Samuel, Blood Accusation: The Strange History of the Beiliss Case, Jewish Chronicle Literary Supplement, 23 December 1966, 3–4

• repr. as ‘The Beiliss Case: Prelude to Revolution’ in Midstream 13 No.2 (February 1967), 66–72

View document (below) for PDF

‘New Ways in History’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 21 April 1966, 347

• repr. Building, 275–7

Endorsement of Walter Kaufmann, Hegel: Reinterpretation, Texts and Commentary

• on jacket of UK edition (London, 1966: Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
• on cover of US paperback edition, Hegel: A Reinterpretation (New York, 1966: Anchor Books)
• repr. on Walter Kaufmann, Discovering the Mind (New York, 1980: McGraw-Hill), vol. 1, Goethe, Kant and Hegel

View document (below)

The Social Responsibility of the Artist.

• Text of a lecture delivered at the eighty-first annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, New York City, Tuesday 27 December 1966

‘Seeing is Believing: The Role of Educational Television in Israel’

• remarks by IB, made as part of a 50-minute film that was produced to mark the opening of Instructional Television - an initiative of the Instructional Television Trust (ITT), designed to create educational television for Israel
• broadcast privately in Israel by the ITT, 24 March 1966
• see also B.36(a)

View document (below) for transcript

Henry Brandon, ‘A Philosopher Looks at the Future’, in Conversations with Henry Brandon (London, 1966: Deutsch), 11–39

• unauthorised repr., ‘My Hopes and Fears’, Sunday Times, 6 November 1966, 41–2

Derek Cooper, ‘New Oxford College’, on appointment as President of new Wolfson College, Oxford, Home Service, 30 June 1966

[Barraclough, Geoffrey,] ‘New Ways in History’, The Times Literary Supplement, 7 April 1966, 295