The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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Date
OA.83

Chiaromonte, Nicola, The Paradox of History: Stendhal, Tolstoy, Pasternak and others (London, [1970]: Weidenfeld & Nicolson), 9

  • xix in the reprint with a foreword by Joseph Frank and a postface by Mary McCarthy (Philadelphia, 1985: University of Pennsylvania Press)
  • 43 in the Italian translation, Credere e non credere (Bologna, 1993: Il Mulino)
  • Berlin’s ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox’ is discussed in the second chapter, ‘Tolstoy and the Paradox of History’ (1970 ed., 29–56; 1985 ed., 17–50)
Works on IB
T.118

‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, and the Search for Identity’

French

‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, et la recherche d’une identité’, trans. Louis Évrard, in Trois essais sur la condition juive (Paris, 1973: Calmann-Lévy)

Hebrew

In Molad NS 4 (OS 27) (1971) 243–60

Hungarian

‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx és az identitás keresése’, trans. Gábor Berényi, in Világosság [Light] no. 5–6 (May–June1998), 139–164

Japanese

‘Benjamin Disraeli to Karl Marx: jiga no tankyu’, trans. Hidekazu Kawaui, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

Lithuanian

Spanish

‘Disraeli, Marx y la búsqueda de identidad’, trans. Soledad Loaeza, in Dialogos no. 43 (January–February 1972),7–18

Translations
T.119

‘Weizmann as Exilarch’

Hebrew

  • (Israel, 1970)
Translations
B.42(a)

The Russian Obsession with History and Historicism

  • The second Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture, delivered at Totem Park, University of British Columbia
  • Recording date: 2/3/71
  • Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes
  • Recording: University of British Columbia Archives phonotape no. 143
  • Unpublished
  • View Document (below) for transcript; and see also Bib.297, Four Lectures on Russian Historicism
Broadcasts
B.43

Stravinsky Died a Year Ago

  • Interviews
  • Recording date: 25/11/71
  • First transmission: 9.30 pm 6/4/72 BBC Radio 3
  • Duration (IB’s contribution): 5 minutes 33 seconds
  • Presenter: John Amis
  • Producer: Denys Gueroult
  • Transcript: IB’s contributions transcribed by Henry Hardy
  • Recording: IB’s contribution on BBC Sound Archives LP34715, 25/11/71[–28/2/72]; whole programme on BBC Sound Archives T34558, 28/3/72, and on BLSA Tape T458W (off-air)
Broadcasts
Bib.120

Sir Maurice Bowra, 1898–1971 (Oxford, [1971]: Wadham College), 10 pp.

  • repr. as ‘Memorial Address in St Mary’s’ in Hugh Lloyd-Jones (ed.), Maurice Bowra (London, 1974: Duckworth)
  • repr. as ‘Maurice Bowra’ in Personal Impressions
Bibliography
Bib.121

‘Georges Sorel’, Creighton Lecture, The Times Literary Supplement, 31 December 1971, 1617–22

  • repr. in expanded form in Chimen Abramsky (ed.), Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr (London, 1974: Macmillan), 3–35
  • repr. in Against the Current
  • trans. Hebrew, Spanish
  • see also Bib.132, ‘Sorel’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 14 January 1972, 40
Bibliography
Bib.122

‘The Question of Machiavelli’, New York Review of Books, 4 November 1971, 20–32

  • repr. of part of ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’, in Myron P. Gilmore (ed.), Studies on Machiavelli (Florence, 1972: Sansoni), 149–206
  • repr. in the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Political Science, No 68813
  • as Appendix II in Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince on The Art of Power (London, 2007: Duncan Baird Publishing), 222–61
  • full version repr. in John Dunn and Ian Harris (eds), Machiavelli (Cheltenham and Lyme, 1997: Edward Elgar), vol. 2
  • in Against the Current
  • in The Proper Study of Mankind
  • trans. Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian
Bibliography
Bib.123

‘Randolph’, in Kay Halle (ed.), Randolph Churchill: The Young Unpretender (London, 1971: Heinemann), 278–9

Bibliography
Bib.124

‘Tchaikovsky and Eugene Onegin’, Glyndebourne Festival Programme Book 1971, 58–63

  • repr. as ‘Tchaikovsky, Pushkin and Onegin’ in Musical Times 121 (1980), 163–8, and Eugene Onegin (Oxford University Opera Club programme) ([Oxford], 1992)
  • See also the compilation 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299
Bibliography
Bib.124(a)

(with others) ‘George Seferis’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 16 December 1971, 42

  • view document below for PDF
Bibliography
Bib.124(b)

‘Sir Isaiah Berlin OM replies to a letter from the Editor’, Jewish Chronicle, 12 November 1971, 35

Bibliography
OA.84

Arblaster, A., ‘Vision and Revision: A Note on the Text of Isaiah Berlin’s Four Essays on Liberty’, Political Studies 19 No 1 (1971), 81–6

Works on IB
OA.85

Daiches, David, A Third World ([Brighton/London, 1971: Sussex University Press/Chatto and Windus])

Works on IB
OA.86

Eslick, Leonard J., ‘The Republic Revisited; The Dilemma of Liberty and Authority’, Philosophical Forum (Dekalb) 10 (December 1971), 171–212

Works on IB
T.121

‘Georges Sorel’

Hebrew

In Molad NS 5 (OS 28) (1973), 267–88

Japanese

‘Georges Sorel’, trans. Haruo Tanaka, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

Spanish

(1973: Alianza)

Translations
T.122

‘The Originality of Machiavelli’

Japanese

‘Machiavelli no dokusousei’, trans. Takeshi Sasaki, Selected Works of Berlin, vol. 1 (Tokyo, 1983: Iwanami Shoten)

Lithuanian

Polish

‘Oryginalność Machiavellego’, trans. Zofia Dorosz, in Literatura na świecie no. 6 (1986), 208–76

Portuguese

(Rio de Janeiro, 1999: Ediouro Publicucoes de Lazer e Cultura)

Russian

‘Original´nost´ Makhiavelly’, trans. V. V. Sapov, in Chelovek no. 3 (2001), 141–52 [further part(s) forthcoming];preceded by anintroduction by the translator, ‘ “Pokovoi phitil´ ”Makhiavelly’, ibid. 138–40

Swedish

‘Machiavelli tände den dödligaluntan’, in Maria Carlshamre (ed.), Den tänkande chefen (Stockholm, 1999: Industrilitteratur)

Thai

‘The Question of Machiavelli’ (short version published in the New York Review of Books), trans. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Academia

Translations
B.44

British Foreign Policy since 1945

  • Introduction to lecture by Roy Jenkins
  • Recording date: 28/3/72
  • First transmission: 8.55 pm 28/4/72 BBC Radio 3
  • Duration (whole programme): 40 minutes
  • Transcript: BBC Written Archives
  • Recording: BBC Sound Archives T34443; BLSA Tape P815R
Broadcasts
B.45

Giambattista Vico: Man of Genius

  • Talk ‘on the neglected Italian thinker’
  • Recording date: 19/4/72
  • First transmission: 10.35 pm 25/9/72 BBC Radio 3
  • Duration: 49 minutes 9 seconds
  • Repeat(s): 10.10 pm 29/11/72 BBC Radio 3
  • Producer: Adrian Johnson
  • Transcript: BBC Written Archives; Berlin Papers
  • Recording: BBC Sound Archives T34962; BLSA Tape T10334W (C530/1) (copy of a BBC Transcription Services tape, ‘Giambattista Vico’, BBC Transcription Services Talks Catalogue Number 1786.00)
  • Publication: ‘Giambattista Vico’, Listener 88 (1972), 391–8 = Bib.130
Broadcasts
B.46

Roots of Romanticism

  • Interview for Open University with Graham Martin, Reader in Literature, Open University
  • A202/34 Arts Level II The Age of Revolutions (1972–79)
  • Recording date: 25/1/72
  • First transmission: 16/10/72 BBC Radio 4 (Open University)
  • Duration: 18 minutes 50 seconds
  • Repeat(s): 21/10/72 BBC Radio 4 (Open University), and in subsequent years of the course, at about the same time of year
  • Producer: Helen Rapp
  • Transcript: Berlin Papers
  • Recording: BLSA Tape H3761
Broadcasts