The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Recollections of Yitzhak Sadeh

• First transmission: date unknown, English-language service of Israeli radio
• Transcript: Berlin Papers
• Publication (in Hebrew): Davar, 5 September 1986, p. 17 = Bib.192c
• incorporated in ‘Yitzhak Sadeh’, Midstream 39 No 4 (May 1993), 20–24 = Bib.214

‘The Cost of Curing an Oyster’, Jerusalem Post, 10 February 1986, 8

• trans. Russian (in part)

‘Martin Cooper: In Memoriam’, in programme for memorial concert by Lindsay String Quartet, 29 June 1986, 2 pp.

• repr. as Foreword to Martin Cooper, Judgements of Value: Selected Writings on Music, ed. Dominic Cooper (Oxford, 1988: Oxford University Press), and as ‘Martin Cooper’ in Personal Impressions (3rd ed., 2014)

‘Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion’, Jewish Quarterly 33 (1986) no. 3 (123), 6–9

• repr. in Personal Impressions (3rd ed., 2014)

‘A Personal Tribute to Adam von Trott (Balliol 1931)’, Balliol College Annual Record 1986, 61–2

• repr. in Flourishing and as ‘Adam von Trott’ in Personal Impressions (3rd ed., 2014)

‘A Personal View of Super-Titles’, in Glyndebourne Touring Opera 1986 (programme) ([Glyndebourne, 1986: Glyndebourne Festival Opera]), 54–6

• repr. in About The House 7 no. 8 (Spring 1987), 8–9, Translation Ireland 15 no. 1 (Spring 2001), 14–15
• and as ‘Titlemania: A Voice in Favor’ in Opera News 54 no. 16 (May 1990), 6–7
• See also the compilation 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299

‘On Yitzhak Sadeh’ (in Hebrew translation), Davar, 5 September 1986, 17

• incorporated into Bib.214, ‘Yitzhak Sadeh’, Midstream 39 no. 4 (May 1993)
• trans. Russian

‘Spender’s “Journals” ’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 7 March 1986, 247

‘Plamenatz, John Petrov (1912–1975)’, in Lord Blake and C. S. Nicholls (eds), The Dictionary of National Biography 1971–1980 (Oxford, 1986: Oxford University Press), 671–3

• in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004: Oxford University Press), online and in print, and later online there with minor subeditorial revisions (2008)
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(with others) ‘Polish-Jewish Studies’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 30 January 1986, 44

Contribution to ‘Greetings’, Secular Humanistic Judaism no. 1 (February 1986), 2

Foreword to Neil Cornwell, The Life, Times and Milieu of V. F. Odoyevsky 1804–1869 (London, 1986: Athlone Press), ix–x

Raymond Carr (trans. Carlos Dardé), ‘Isaiah Berlin: Contra la corriente’, Revista de Occidente no. 66 (November 1986), 103–39

Jeremy Tarsh and Jonathan Wolfson, ‘On Israel, Zionism and the Jews’, Jewish Chronicle, 18 April 1986, 31

• reprinted (without permission) from Windmill, the magazine of the Oxford University Israel Society, no. 1, Hilary Term 1986

Brown, Alan, Modern Political Philosophy: Theories of the Just Society (Harmondsworth, 1986: Penguin), 157–8

• presents a consequentialist argument against value pluralism

Bryan, Ferald J., ‘Vico on Metaphor: Implications for Rhetorical Criticism’, Philosophy and Rhetoric 19 (1986), 255–65

Gray, John N., Liberalism (Milton Keynes, 1986: Open University Press. Minneapolis, 1986: University of Minnesota Press)

Nei, Yasuo, ‘Shokyokuteki jiyū to sekkyokuteki jiyū’ [‘Negative and Positive Freedom’], in Miyazaki daigaku kyouikugakubu kiyou, jinbunkagaku [Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Miyazaki University, the Humanities] no. 59 (1986), 79–90

Philp, Mark, Godwin’s Political Justice (London, 1986: Duckworth; Ithaca, 1986: Cornell University Press), 229

Rorty, R. ‘The Contingency of Language’, ‘The Contingency of Selfhood’ and ‘The Contingency of Community’, London Review of Books, 17 April, 8 May and 24 July 1986, 3–6, 11–15 and 10–14