The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas

Chinese

(Nanjing, 2002: Yilin Press: simplified script)

French

À contre-courant (Paris, 1988: Albin Michel)

German

• Wider das Gelaüfige (Frankfurt, 1981, Hamburg, 1991: Europäische
• Wider das Gelaüfige, rejacketed reissue of previous Wider das Gelaüfige (1982, Fischer, Europäische)
• (pocketbook) Wider das Gelaüfige (Frankfurt, 1988: Fischer. Athenaum)
• Wider das Gelaüfige, trans. Johannes Fritsche (Frankfurt, 1994: Fischer)

Greek

Kontpa Eto Peyma, trans. Maria Castanara (Athens, 2003: Scripta)

Hebrew

• (Tel Aviv, 1986: Am Oved)
• The Open University of Israel 1989 [non-exclusive use of the essay ‘Nationalism’]
• The Open University of Israel 1991 [non-exclusive use of the essay ‘Montesquieu’]

Italian

• Controcorrente, trans. Giovanni Ferrara degli Uberti (Milan, 2000: Adelphi)
• extract from ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’ in Il Sole-24 Ore, 5 November 2000, Domenica, 25

Japanese

• (in part) ‘The Counter-Enlightenment’, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 3 (1984)
• ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’, in op. cit. vol. 1 (1983)
• ‘The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities’, in vol. 1 (1983)
• ‘Vico’s Concept of Knowledge’, in vol. 3 (1984); ‘Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment’, in vol. 3 (1984)
• ‘Montesquieu’, vol. 1 (1983); ‘The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess’, in in vol. 3 (1984)
• ‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity’, in vol. 3 (1984)
• ‘The Naivety of Verdi’, in vol. 1 (1983); ‘Georges Sorel’, in vol. 1 (1983)
• ‘Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power’, in vol. 1 (1983)

Polish

Pod prad: eseje z historii idei (Poznan, 1997, 2002: Zysk)

Serbian

1994: Bogda Mrvos

Spanish

Contra la corriente: ensayos sobre historia de las ideas, trans. Hero Rodríguez Toro (Mexico, 1983, 2006: Fondo de Cultura Económica)

‘Einstein and Israel’

Chinese

In A Feast of Thoughts, ed. and trans. Hong Gao (Beijing, 2016: New World)

• a selection of essays by sixteen ‘world-class masters’, including Arendt, Auden, Brodsky, Sakharov, Sontag, Stravinsky, and offering ‘deep thinking about human civilisation’

Japanese

‘Einstein to Israel’, trans. Hidekazu Kawai, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 2 (1983)

Russian

(Jerusalem, 1998: Moadon Teena)

Personal Impressions

• Interview on IB's book of that title (Hogarth Press, 1980)
• First transmission: 9.30 4/11/80 BBC Radio 4
• Duration (whole programme): 30 minutes
• Series: Kaleidoscope
• Presenter: Edwin Mullins
• Producer: Paul Campbell [Radio Times says Richard Dunn]
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BLSA Tape T10780R

Personal Impressions, ed. Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Noel Annan (London, 1980: Hogarth Press; New York, 1981: Viking; Oxford, 1982: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin)

• reprints of Bibs. 32, 51, 60, 70, 72, 92, 96, 104, 120, 133, 142, 149, 166(a), (together with 169)
• trans. Hebrew (in part), Italian (in part), Japanese (in part), Lithuanian, Portuguese, Spanish

2nd ed. (London, 1998: Pimlico; Princeton, 2001: Princeton University Press)

• adds reprints of Bibs. 172, 194(a), 195, 198, 214
• trans. Chinese, German

3rd ed., foreword by Hermione Lee (Princeton, 2014: Princeton University Press)

• adds the original English text of Bib.203(e) and reprints of 177(c), 179, 181(b), 188(a), 191, 192, 192(a), 203(f), 215, 220, 222
• trans. Chinese, German

Story in Pass the Port Again: The Best After-Dinner Stories of the Famous (London, 1980: Christian Brann), 21

‘The Incompatibility of Values’, in Melvin Kranzberg (ed.), Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology (Boulder, 1980: Westview Press), 32–3

‘Virtue and Practicality’, in Melvin Kranzberg (ed.), Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology (Boulder, 1980: Westview Press), 193

‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in Personal Impressions

• Shortened version, ‘Conversations with Russian Poets’ (given as a Bowra Lecture), The Times Literary Supplement, 31 October 1980, 1233–6
• and (with additions), as ‘Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak’, New York Review of Books, 20 November 1980, 23–35 – this version repr. in The Proper Study of Mankind, The Soviet Mind and Robert B. Silvers (ed.), The Company They Kept, vol. 2, Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (New York, 2011: New York Review Books)
• excerpted as ‘Anna Akhmatova: A Memoir’ in The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer, ed. Roberta Reeder (Somerville, Massachusetts, 1990: Zephyr Press), vol. 2 – and in the one-volume edition (Somerville, Massachusetts, 1992: Zephyr Press; 2nd. ed., Boston, Massachusetts, 1994: Zephyr Press; Edinburgh, 1994: Canongate Press)
• trans. Dutch, French (in part), German, Hebrew, Polish, Spanish (in part), Russian

NB: the opening paragraph of the lecture as delivered was omitted from the published text

‘Note on Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth Century European Thought’, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 3 (1980), 89–106

• repr. with revisions in L. Pompa and W. H. Dray (eds), Substance and Form in History: A Collection of Essays in Philosophy of History (Edinburgh, 1981: University of Edinburgh Press), and The Crooked Timber of Humanity
• trans. Italian, Polish

‘On Philosophy’, Good Book Guide 8 (Spring 1980), 10

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

‘A Tribute to my Friend’ (on Jacob Talmon), Forum no. 38 (Summer 1980), 1–4

• trans. Hebrew

‘Upon Receiving the Jerusalem Prize’, Conservative Judaism 33 no. 2 (Winter 1980), 14–17

• repr. as ‘The Three Strands in My Life’, Jewish Quarterly 27 Nos 2–3 (Summer/Autumn 1979), 5–7
• repr. in Personal Impressions (2nd ed., 1998)
• trans. Russian, excerpts trans. Hebrew

Contribution to ‘Books of the Year’, Sunday Times, 7 December 1980, Weekly Review, 33

Contribution to [Evangeline Bell Bruce (ed.),] David K. E. Bruce (Salisbury, 1980: Michael Russell), 12–13

‘The Hedgehog and the Fox Continued’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 9 October 1980, 44

• see Bib.44

Edwin Mullins, ‘Personal Impressions’, on IB's book of that title, Kaleidoscope, Radio 4, 4 November 1980

• not subsequently published

Abbott, Philip, Furious Fancies: American Political Thought in the Post-Liberal Era (Westport, Connecticut, 1980: Greenwood Press)

anon., ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin’, Observer, 9 November 1980, 16

• ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin describes as “grotesque” the statement: “A work of art is no good if it does not provoke a furore”, which we, in good faith, attributed to him in Sayings of the Week last week. Sir Isaiah points out that he has never thought or said anything of the kind.’

Bowman, John S., ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox’, New York Review of Books, 25 September 1980, 67

• reply by Jonathan Lieberson and Sidney Morgenbesser, 67–8