The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Four Essays on Liberty (London and New York, 1969: Oxford University Press)

• revised reprints of Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century, Historical Inevitability, Two Concepts of Liberty, John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life, with a new introduction
• trans. Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian

See also the 2002 publication Liberty, edited by Henry Hardy, which incorporates Four Essays on Liberty, while adding to it a fifth essay, 'From Hope and Fear Set Free', which Berlin wished had been published in the 1969 edition. Liberty draws together key texts on this defining subject in Berlin's oeuvre, and in practical terms it supersedes Four Essays on Liberty.

Foreword to Michael Yudkin (ed.), General Education: A Symposium on the Teaching of Non-Specialists (Harmondsworth, 1969: Allen Lane/Penguin), 9–20

• repr. as ‘General Education’ in Oxford Review of Education 1 (1975), 287–92
• repr. in The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)
• trans. Japanese

‘The Hazards of Social Revolution’, in Aaron W. Warner, Dean Morse and Thomas E. Cooney (eds), The Environment of Change (New York and London, 1969: Columbia University Press), 1–27

• includes a short discussion between IB and I. I. Rabi on the rationality of science
• described as a ‘Summary of Remarks’, this text, under the title ‘The Lessons of History’, was in fact heavily corrected by IB before publication
• repr. with revisions as ‘The Lessons of History’ in Joshua L. Cherniss and Steven B. Smith (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin (New York, 2018: Cambridge University Press)

‘A Note on Vico’s Concept of Knowledge’, in Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Hayden V. White (eds), Giambattista Vico: An International Symposium (Baltimore, [1969]: Johns Hopkins Press), 371–7

• repr. in New York Review of Books, 24 April 1969, 23–6
• repr. Against the Current
• trans. Spanish

‘One of the Boldest Innovators in the History of Human Thought’ (Vico), New York Times Magazine, 23 November 1969, 76–100

• repr. in Ben Seligman (ed.), Molders of Modern Thought (Chicago, 1970: Quadrangle Books)
• repr. The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)
• trans. Spanish

‘Vico’

• lecture delivered at the Italian Institute, London, 6 May 1969

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‘Reply to Orsini’, Journal of the History of Ideas 30 (1969), 91–5

• a reply to G. N. G. Orsini, ‘Feuerbach’s Supposed Objection to Hegel’, ibid., 85–90
• abstract in the Philosopher’s Index 3 (1969), 282

‘Books of 1969: A Personal Choice’, contribution to ‘Books of the Year: A Personal Choice’, The Observer, 21 December 1969, 17

Chapman, John W., ‘Voluntary Association and the Political Theory of Pluralism’, in J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman (eds), Voluntary Associations (New York, 1969: Atherton Press) [Nomos 11], 92, 109

d’Entrèves, Alessandro Passerin, ‘Sul concetto di libertà politica’, Rivista internazionale di filosofia del diritto 46 (1969), 286–97

Cohen, Gerald A., ‘A Note on Values and Sacrifices’ (reply to MacCallum), Ethics 79 (1968–9), 159–62

Hampshire, Stuart, ‘Vico and Language’, New York Review of Books, 13 February 1969, 19–22

Orsini, G. N. G., ‘Feuerbach’s Supposed Objection to Hegel’, Journal of the History of Ideas 30 (1969), 85–90

Rohatyn, Dennis A., ‘On Behalf of Ebel and Berlin’, Mill News Letter 5 no. 1 (Fall 1969), 6–9

Four Essays on Liberty

Albanian

• Izajah Berlin, Idete politike te shekullit XX dhe katër ese mbilirinë, trans. Bashkim Shehu (Elbasan, 1996: Onufri)

Bulgarian

• Chetiri eseta za svobodata, trans. Iskraq Velinova (Sofia, 2000: Universitetsko Izdatelstvo‘Sv. Kliment Ochridski’)

Chinese

• (Taipei, 1986: Linking Publishing: traditional script)

Croatian

• Cetiri eseja o slobodi, trans. Neven Petrovic (Split, 2000: Feral Tribune)

Czech

• Ctyri eseje o svobode, trans. Martin Pokorny (Prague, 1999: Prostor)

Finnish

French

• In Éloge de la liberté, trans. Jacqueline Carnaud and Jacqueline Lahana (Paris, 1988, 1990: Calmann-Lév, Presses Pocket)

German

• Freiheit: Vier Versuche, trans. Reinhard Kaiser (Frankfurt, 1995, 2006:Fischer)

Greek

• Tessera dokimia peri eleutherias, trans. Giannes Papademetriou (Athens, 2001: Scripta)

Hebrew

• (Israel,1971)

Hungarian

• Négy esszé a szabadságról, trans. Eros Ferencand Gábor Berényi (Budapest, 1990: Európa Könyvkiadó)

Italian

• Quattro saggi sulla liberta, trans. Marco Santambrogio (Milan, 1989: Feltrinelli)

Japanese

• Jiyūron, trans. K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda, and K. Ikimatsu [with a translation of ‘Does Political Theory still Exist?’] (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)

Latvian

• Cetras esejas par brivibu, trans. Zane Rozenberga, introduction by Jānis Vējš (Riga, 2000: Spriditis)

Persian

Polish

• Cztery eseje o wolnosci, ed. Malgorzata Dziurdzik, trans. Hanna Bartoszewicz, Daniel Grinberg, Dorota Lachowska and Anna Tanalska-Duleba (Warsaw, 1994: Naukowe)
• Cztery eseje o wolnosci (Poznan, 2000: Zysk); excerpt from Introduction, pp. lvi–lvii, Polish, trans. Dorota Lachowska, pp. 55–6, Przeglad Polityczny no. 54 (2002), 133

Portuguese

• Quatro ensaios sobre a liberdade, trans. Wamberto Hudson Ferreira (Brasilia, 1981: Universidade de Brasilia)

Romanian

• Patru eseuri despre libertate, trans. Laurentiu Stefan-Scalat, prefaceby Mihail Radu Solcan (Bucharest, 1996: Humanitas)

Russian

• Chetire esse o svobode, trans. Sima Weksler (London, 1992: Overseas Publications Interchange)

Serbo-Croat

• Cetiri ogleda o slobodi, trans. Vesna Danilovic and Slavica Miletic, Libertasseries (Belgrade, 1992: Filip Visnjic)

Spanish

• Introduction and items 54 and 71 (qq.v.) in Libertad y necesidad en lahistoria, trans. Julio Bayón, (Madrid, 1974: Revista de Occidente)
• Cuatro ensayos sobre la libertad (Madrid, 1988: Alianza) (reprinted 1998 in Ensayo)

Swedish

• Fyra essäer om frihet, trans. Torkel Franzén(Avesta, 1984: Ratio)

Ukrainian

• Chotiri ese pro svobodu, trans. Oleksandr Kovalenko (Kiev, 1994: Osnovi)

Foreword to Michael Yudkin (ed.), General Education: A Symposium on the Teaching of Non-Specialists

Japanese

‘Gendai no chishiki to kyoiku’, trans. Kei Koike, Misuzu, no. 145 (September–October 1971), 2–10

‘A Note on Vico’s Concept of Knowledge’

Italian

‘Sulla teorica del Vico circa la conoscenza storica’ (Florence,1965: Olschki) ‘Sulla teorica del Vico circa la conoscenza storica’, in Lettere Italiane 17 no. 4 (October–December 1965), 420–31

Japanese

‘Vico no chishiki gainen’, trans. Haruo Tanaka, Selected Works of Berlin, vol. 3 (Tokyo, 1984: Iwanami Shoten)

Spanish

‘One of the Boldest Innovators in the History of Human Thought’

Spanish

‘Uno de los más audaces innovadores en la historia del pensamiento humano’, trans. Enrique F. Bocardo, in Cuadernos sobre Vico, Nos 9–10 (1998), 11–22

Turgenev and the Dilemma of the Liberal Intellectual

• Romanes Lecture for 1970, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
• Recording date: 12/11/70
• First transmission: 9.00 pm 14/2/71 BBC Radio 3
• Duration: 56 minutes
• Repeat(s): 4.30 pm 5/9/71 BBC Radio 3
• Producer: Adrian Johnson
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T33582; BLSA Tape T297R (another recording Tape T11065R)
• Publication: Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament (Oxford, 1972: Clarendon Press) = Bib.125

Weizmann as Exilarch

• Israel Goldstein Lecture, Jerusalem
• Recording date: 1970
• Duration: 35 minutes
• Recording: BLSA: Tape T10898R
• Publication: ‘Weizmann as Exilarch’, in Chaim Weizmann as Leader (Jerusalem, 1970: Hebrew University of Jerusalem) = Bib.119