The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Interview on Russian Thinkers

• Insert for Books and Writers
• First transmission: 7/1/78 World Service
• Repeat(s): 9/1, 10/1/78 World Service
• Series: Books and Writers
• Producer: Anne Theroux
• Transcript: not at BBC Written Archives unless among unsorted material

An Introduction to Philosophy

• Studio interview with Bryan Magee
• Recording date: 23/5/76
• First transmission: 9.35 pm 19/1/78 BBC2 Television
• Duration: 55 minutes
• Repeat(s): 4.40 pm 22/1/78 BBC2, 6.05 pm 13/1/79 BBC2, 4.20 pm 2/11/82 BBC2
• Series: Men of Ideas (No 1 of 15)
• Presenter: Bryan Magee
• Director: Tony Tyley
• Executive Producer: Janet Hoenig
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: SA T38569; BLSA Tape T10213R (sound only)
• Publication: in Listener and Bryan Magee (ed.), Men of Ideas

Russian Thinkers, ed. Henry Hardy and Aileen Kelly, with an introduction by Aileen Kelly (London, 1978: Hogarth Press; New York, 1978: Viking; Harmondsworth and New York, 1979: Penguin; London, 1994: Penguin)

• reprints of 30, 44, 56, 57, 76, 82, 125
• trans. Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese (in part), Polish, Portuguese, Spanish

2nd ed., revised by Henry Hardy, glossary by Jason Ferrell (London etc., 2008: Penguin Classics)

Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays, ed. Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Bernard Williams (London, 1978: Hogarth Press; New York, 1979: Viking; Oxford, 1980: Oxford University Press; New York, 1981: Penguin; London, 1999: Pimlico; Princeton, 1999: Princeton University Press)

• reprints of Bibs. 25, 35, 36, 64, 77, 81, 85, 93
• trans. Italian, Japanese (in part), Spanish

2nd. ed., foreword by Alasdair MacIntyre (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press)

• adds an appendix containing reprints of Bibs. 22, 95(a), 161(a), 171 (in part), 217, 219, the first draft of 229 (275), and letters on the genesis of the book (277)

Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West, in Seio yutopia-shiso no suitai (with introductory speeches by Hidemi Kon, President of the Japan Foundation, and Professor Kanichi Fukuda, and a Japanese translation of the lecture) ([Tokyo], March 1978: Japan Foundation), 20 pp.

• no. 6 in the Japan Foundation’s series of pamphlets publishing guest lectures
• repr. in J. M. Porter and Richard Vernon (eds), Unity, Plurality and Politics: Essays in Honour of F. M. Barnard (London and Sydney, 1986: Croom Helm)
• repr. in The Crooked Timber of Humanity
• trans. Arabic, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish, Spanish

Introduction to Derek Hill: Portraits (London, 1978: Marlborough Fine Art), 3

‘Comments’ (on Abraham Kaplan, ‘Historical Interpretation’, in the same volume), in Yirmiahu Yovel (ed.), Philosophy of History and Action (Dordrecht/Boston/London, 1978: Reidel; Jerusalem, 1978: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University), 38–40

‘Marx’s Kapital and Darwin’, Journal of the History of Ideas 39 (1978), 519

• abstract in the Philosopher’s Index 12 (1978), 234

‘El nacionalismo: descuido del pasado y poder actual’, Diálogos 14 no. 6 (November/December 1978), 10–17

• original English version, ‘Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power’, published in Partisan Review 46 (1979), 337–58
• repr. in Against the Current and The Proper Study of Mankind
• trans. Bulgarian, Catalan, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian

(with others) ‘Is a Philosophy of History Possible?’, in Yirmiahu Yovel (ed.), Philosophy of History and Action (Dordrecht/Boston/London, 1978: Reidel; Jerusalem, 1978: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University), 219–40

• repr. in part in Concepts and Categories (2nd ed., 2013)

Presidential Address, Proceedings of the British Academy 64 (1978), 1–9

‘Corsi e Ricorsi’, review of Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Donald Phillip Verene (eds), Giambattista Vico’s Science of Humanity, Journal of Modern History 50 (1978), 480–9

‘Tolstoy Remembered’, review of Tatyana Tolstoy, Tolstoy Remembered, New Review 5 no. 2 (Autumn 1978), 3–7

‘Mr Nicholas Nabokov’ (obituary), The Times, 15 April 1978, 16

P.G., ‘Cosmopolitan Friend of Israel’ (Jacob Talmon), Jerusalem Post, 14 April 1978 [?]

Bryan Magee, ‘An Introduction to Philosophy’, BBC2 Television, 19 January 1978

• published as ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin on Men of Ideas and Children’s Puzzles’, Listener, 26 January 1978, 111–13
• as ‘An Introduction to Philosophy: Dialogue with Isaiah Berlin’ in Bryan Magee (ed.), Men of Ideas: Some Creators of Contemporary Philosophy (London, 1978: BBC), 1–27

Carl Rudbeck, ‘Historielöshet är barbari’, Svenska dagbladet, Sunday, 5 November 1978, Kultur, 8–9

Anne Theroux (?), on Russian Thinkers, BBC World Service, 7 January 1978

• no recording or transcript survives?

Abramsky, Chimen, ‘A Sage in Oxford’, Jewish Chronicle Literary Supplement, 9 June 1978, 1–2

Farganis, Sandra, ‘Liberty: Two Perspectives on the Women’s Movement’, Ethics 88 (1977–8), 62–73 [API]