The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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Date
OA.121

Gewirth, Alan, Reason and Morality (Chicago, 1978: University of Chicago Press), pp. 368, 372

Works on IB
OA.122

Gould, James A., ‘The Neglected Freedom’, Journal of Thought 13 (April 1978), 124–32

Works on IB
OA.123

Haag, Ernest van den, ‘Liberty: Negative or Positive’, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 1 (1978), 63–86

Works on IB
OA.124

Hardy, Henry, ‘Editing Isaiah Berlin’s Writings’, British Book News, January 1978, 3, 5

  • repr. in Lycidas (the magazine of Wolfson College, Oxford) 7 (1978), 34–5
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OA.125

Otto, Stephan, ‘Geistesgeschichte zwischen Philosophie und Feuilleton’, Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 32 (January–March 1978), 77–82 [API]

Works on IB
OT.1

Kocis, Robert, ‘Rationalism and Romanticism Redux: The Political Philosophy of Sir Isaiah Berlin’, Ph.D. thesis, Bowling Green State University (1978)

Works on IB
T.157

Russian Thinkers

Chinese

(Nanjing, 2001:Yilin Press: simplified script): one of the best 10 books of 2001, according to China Book Business Report

Dutch

Rusische denkers, trans. Elise Marijns (Amsterdam, 1981: Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers)

French

Les Penseurs russes, trans. Daria Olivier (Paris, 1984: Albin Michel)

German

Russische Denker, trans. Harry Maor (Frankfurt, 1981: Europäische) Russische Denker (Frankfurt, 1988: Athenaum) Russische Denker, trans. Harry Maor (Frankfurt, 1995: Fischer)

Hebrew

(Tel Aviv, 1983: Am Oved)

Italian

Il riccio e la volpe, trans. Gilberto Forti (Milan, 1986, 1998: Adelphi)

Japanese

(in part) ‘Russia and 1848’, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 3 (1984); ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox’ (q.v.); ‘Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty’ [ibid.]; ‘A Remarkable Decade’ [ibid.]; ‘Fathers and Children’, Chichi to Ko (Tokyo, 1977: Misuzu Shobo)

Polish

Rosyjscy Mysliciele, trans. Sergiusz Kowalski (Warsaw, 1998, 2003: Prószynski)

Portuguese

Pensadores russos, trans. Carlos Eugenio Marcondes De Moura (Sao Paulo, 1988: Editora Schwarcz)

Serbian

Ruski mislioci, trans. Ivan Radosavljević (Belgrade, 2013: Slozhbeni Glasnik)

Slovenian

Ruski misleci, trans. Urša Zabukovec (Ljubljana, 2014: Beletrina)

Spanish

(1978:Vuelta) Pensadores rusos, trans. Juan Jose Utrilla (Mexico,1980: Fondo de Cultura Economica)

Translations
T.158

Concepts and Categories

Italian

  • (Rome, 1979: Armando) Il fine della filosofia (Turin,2002: Edizioni di Comunità)

Japanese

  • (in part) ‘The Purpose of Philosophy’ in vol.2 (1983) of the Japanese translation Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten)
  • ‘Equality’, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 2 (1983)
  • ‘The Concept of Scientific History’, in Rekishi ni okeru kagaku toha nanika (Tokyo, 1978: SanichiShobo)
  • ‘Does Political Theory Still Exist?’, in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo);
  • ‘ “From Hope and Fear Set Free” ’, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 2 (1983)

Spanish

  • Conceptos y categorias: ensayos filosoficos (Mexico, 1983, 2002: Fondode Cultura Economica)

 

Translations
T.159

‘The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West’

Arabic

(London, 1992: Dal al Saqi)

Italian

‘Il declino delle utopie’, Leggere no. 31 (May 1991), 20–36

Japanese

‘Seiou ni okeru yutopia sisou no suitai’, trans. Hidekazu Kawai, in in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 3 (1984)

Lithuanian

The Open Society Fund 1993

Polish

Spanish

‘Decadencia de la Utopia’, Vuelta 10 no. 112 (March 1986) (Mexico) Estudios Publications 1994 [Chile only]

Translations
T.161

‘Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power’

Bulgarian

Catalan

‘Nacionalisme: Delseu menysteniment en el passat i la seua importància actual’, trans. Mila Garrido, introduction by Gustau Muñoz, in Nacionalisme (Valencia, 1997: Tàndem)

German

Der Nationalismus: seine frühere Vernachlässigung und gegenwärtige Macht, trans. Johannes Fritsche, introduction by Henning Ritter,‘Die Geschichte hat kein Libretto’ (Frankfurt, 1990: Anton Hain)

Hungarian

‘A nacionalizmus: Valaha elhanyagolták, ma hatalmas úr’, in MáriaLudassy (ed.), Az angolszász liberalizmus klasszikusai [ Classicsof English-Speaking Liberals ], 2 vols (Budapest, 1991, 1992: Atlantisz),vol. 2, 213–44

Japanese

‘Nationalism: kako ni okeru mushi to genzai notsuyosa’, trans. Hidekazu Kawai, in in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

Lithuanian

Polish

  • ‘Nacjonalizm’, trans. Adam Chmielewski, Odra 10 (1990),17–31
  • trans. Sergiusz Kowalski, Res publica [Warsaw] 2 no. 6 (1988), 145–60

Russian

‘Natsionalizm: vcherashnee upushchenie i segodnyashnyaya sila’, trans. B. Dubin, in Filosofiya svobody: Evropa (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Translations
B.65

Interview on Concepts and Categories and Russian Thinkers

  • First transmission: 7/2, 14/2, 21/2/79 Belgian Radio (Belgische Radio en Televisie)
  • Series: Symposium
  • Presenter/Producer: Frans Boenders
  • Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
  • Recording: BLSA Tape H3762
Broadcasts
B.66

Reinhold Niebuhr: A Timeless Prophet

  • Interviews
  • First transmission: 10.15 pm 18/3/79 BBC Radio 4
  • Duration (whole programme): 45 minutes
  • Presenter: Vernon Sproxton
  • Producer: Peter Firth
  • Transcript: BBC Written Archives (presenter’s contributions only); IB’s contribution transcribed by Henry Hardy
  • Recording: BLSA Tape T2222W
Broadcasts
B.67

Sir Isaiah Berlin at 70

  • Interview for External Services Central Talks and Features (Magazines)
  • Recording date: 29/5/79
  • First transmission: 6/6/79? (processed, i.e. provided with a presentation script, 5/6/79)
  • Producer: B J Waller
  • Transcript: not at BBC Written Archives unless among unsorted material
Broadcasts
Bib.166

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, ed. and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Roger Hausheer (London, 1979: Hogarth Press; New York, 1980: Viking; Oxford, 1981: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin; London, 1997: Pimlico; Princeton, 2001: Princeton University Press)

  • reprints of Bib. refs. 58, 75, 108, 110, 114, 118, 121, 122, 134, 139, 152, 154, 161
  • trans. Catalan, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese (in part), Polish, Serbian, Spanish

2nd ed., foreword by Mark Lilla (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press)

  • adds an appendix containing relevant letters (Bib.278)
  • foreword repr. as ‘Isaiah Berlin Against the Current’, New York Review of Books, 25 April 2013 (OA.1120)
Bibliography
Bib.166(a)

‘Einstein and Israel’, New York Review of Books, 8 November 1979, 13–18

  • repr. of major part of contribution to Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (eds), Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, the Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem (Princeton, 1982: Princeton University Press), 281–92
  • repr. in Anthology: Selected Essays from Thirty Years of The New York Review of Books ([New York, 1993]: New York Review of Books)
  • rerp. Personal Impressions
  • trans. Hebrew, Russian
Bibliography
Bib.166(b)

‘Professor Scouten on Herder and Vico’, Comparative Literature Studies 16 (1979), 141–5

Bibliography
Bib.166(c)

Note on Lidiya Chukovsky, Zapiski ob Anna Akhmatovoi [Notes about Anna Akhmatova], i, 1938–1941 (Paris, 1976), in ‘In absentia: Some Books of the Year’, The Times Literary Supplement, 23 November 1979, 4

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Bibliography
Bib.166(d)

Letter to Adam Podgorecki (on the intelligentsia), in Adam Podgorecki and Maria Los, Multi-Dimensional Sociology (London, Boston and Henley, 1979: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 315–16

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Bibliography
Bib.166(e)

(with Lord Donaldson and Sir Claus Moser) ‘The Death of Walter Legge’ (letter), Financial Times, 27 March 1979, 27

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Bibliography
Bib.166(f)

‘Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power’, published in Partisan Review 46 (1979), 337–58