The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Gore-Booth, Paul, With Great Truth and Respect [memoirs] (London, 1974: Constable)

Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (ed.), Maurice Bowra: A Celebration (London, 1974)

Mandelstam, Nadezhda, Hope Abandoned: A Memoir, trans. Max Hayward (London, 1974: Collins Harvill), 357–8

Parent, W., ‘Some Recent Work on the Concept of Liberty’, American Philosophical Quarterly 11 (1974), 149–67

Ryan, Alan, ‘A Glamorous Salon: Isaiah Berlin’s Disparate Gifts’, Encounter 43 no. 4 (October 1974), 67–72

‘The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities’

Danish

‘Splittelsen mellem naturvidenskaberne og humaniora’, in Denideale straeben og andre essays, trans. Anders Smith (Copenhagen,2005: Gyldendal)

Italian

Trans. P Stefani, Filosofia e problemi d’oggi 52 (1975),219–265

Japanese

‘Shizen kagaku to jinbun kagaku no bunretsu’, trans. Takeshi Sasaki, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

Polish

Politics

• The Jay Interview
• First transmission: 31/8/75 London Weekend Television
• Presenter: Peter Jay
• Duration: 55 minutes
• Series: The Jay Interview: In Quest of Our Civilisation, No 2
• Producer: Julian Norridge
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: ITN Source; copy at British Library Sound Archive, London, Tape V601
• Publication: for transcript view document below (this is duplicated at I.12)

The End of the Ideal of the Perfect Society

• Lecture given to an audience of teachers and students at the University of New South Wales
• Recording date: 1975
• First transmission: 5/11/75 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Presenter: John Merson[?], Sydney
• Duration: c.60 minutes
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: Australian Broadcasting Corporation tape, call number 75/10/2379; copy at British Library Sound Archive, London, Tape H2882

Vico, Voltaire and the Beginnings of Cultural History

• Lecture given at the University of Adelaide, 7/11/75
• Recording date: 7/11/75
• First transmission: 12/11/75 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Presenter: John Merson[?], Sydney
• Duration: c.60 minutes
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: Australian Broadcasting Corporation tape, call number 75/10/2379; copy at British Library Sound Archive, London, Tape H2883

John Petrov Plamenatz, 1912–1975 (Oxford, [1975]: All Souls College), 12 pp.

• repr. in Personal Impressions

Foreword (on Avraham Harman) to Dov Noy and Issachar Ben-Ami (eds), Studies in the Cultural Life of the Jews in England (Jerusalem, 1975: Magnes Press, the Hebrew University), 7

‘L’apoteosi della volontà romantica: la rivolta contro il tipo di un mondo ideale’, Lettere italiane 27 (1975), 44–68

• original English version, ‘The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World’, published in The Crooked Timber of Humanity
• repr. in The Proper Study of Mankind
• trans. Latvian, Spanish

‘Performances memorable and not so memorable’, Opera 26 (1975), 116–20

• See also the compilation 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299

Presidential Address, Proceedings of the British Academy 61 (1975), 71–81

Speech at the Official Opening of Wolfson College, Oxford, 12 November 1974, Lycidas 3 (1975), 3–6

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(unattributed) ‘Sir John Wheeler-Bennett’ (obituary), The Times, 10 December 1975, 19

‘Sir John Wheeler-Bennett’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 13 December 1975, 16

(with others) ‘Writers and the Closed Shop’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 25 April 1975, 441

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‘The End of the Ideal of a Perfect Society’ (1975), in The Sense of Reality (2nd ed., 2019)

• Improved English text of Bib.272 

Peter Jay, ‘Politics’, London Weekend Television, 31 August 1975

• For transcript, view document below (this is duplicated at B.57)