The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

‘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]

‘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)

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

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

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

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)

View Document (below) for reviews of the 1st Edition

‘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

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

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

• View document below for PDF

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

• view document below for PDF

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

• view document below for PDF

‘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
• See also 'El nacionalismo: descuido del pasado y poder actual’, Diálogos 14 no. 6 (November/December 1978), 10–17 (Bib.161)

Frans Boenders, ‘Wijsbegeerte, geschiedenis en vrijheid’ (Philosophy, history and freedom), on Russian Thinkers and Concepts and Categories, in Sprekend gedacht (Thinking out loud) (Bussum, 1980: Het Wereldvenster), 171–90

• broadcast on Belgian Radio, February 1979

Miriam Gross, ‘Art for Liberation's Sake’, Observer, 5 August 1979, 35

*Vernon Sproxton, ‘Reinhold Niebuhr: A Timeless Prophet’, Radio 4, 18 March 1979

[?], ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin at 70’, ‘External CTF (Magazines)’, [?] June 1979

• no recording or transcript survives?

Blumenfeld, Yorick, ‘Is Isaiah Berlin the Philosopher of the 1980s?’, International Herald Tribune, 28 December 1979, Weekend Supplement, pp. 7W and 10W

(in Hebrew) Eldad, Israel, ‘An Ironic Situation in Jerusalem: After the Award of the Jerusalem Prize to Professor Isaiah Berlin’, Yedioth Ahronoth, 15 June 1979, 11

• very critical of IB and Menachem Begin

d’Entrèves, Alessandro Passerin, ‘Obbligo politico e società aperta’, in id., Il palchetto assegnato agli statisti e altri scritti di varia politica (Milan, 1979: Franco Angeli)

Fyvel, Tosco R., ‘Isaiah Berlin at Seventy’, Jewish Chronicle, 1 June 1979, 15