The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

[Sparrow, John, and Stuart Hampshire,] ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin’ (obituary), The Times, 7 November 1997, 25

Tallis, Raymond, Enemies of Hope: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism: Irrationalism, Anti-Humanism and Counter-Enlightenment (Basingstoke and London, 1997: Macmillan; New York, 1997: St Martin’s Press; revised reprint 1999)

Turumi Shunsuke, Kitai to kaiso [Expectations and Recollections] (Tokyo, 1997: Shobunsha)

• Shunsuke, who studied pragmatism at Harvard under Quine, admires IB because of his style, which proved a stronger influence on him (among British philosophers) than e.g. Austin

Upton, S., ‘Isaiah Berlin as Anti-Rationalist’, Philosophy and Literature 21 no. 2 (1997), 426–32

Veca, Salvatore, Dell’incertezza (Milan, 1997: Feltrinelli), 130–6

Veca, Salvatore, ‘Il pluralismo secondo Sir Isaiah’, Reset No 41 (October 1997), 34–5

Verma, V., ‘Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997)’, Economic and Political Weekly 32 no. 48 (1997), 3053

Vincent, Andrew (ed.), Political Theory (Cambridge, 1997: Cambridge University Press), 13–14, 134, 196

Wieseltier, Leon, ‘ “When a Sage Dies, All are his Kin”: Isaiah Berlin, 1909–1997’, New Republic 1997 no. 4324, 27–31

Zakaria, Fareed, ‘The Rise of Illiberal Democracy’, Foreign Affairs 76 no. 6 (November/December 1997), 22–43 (ref. on 26)

Zhu Xueqin, Bolin quyi [Goodbye to Berlin], Nanfan Zhoumo [South Weekend], 28 November 1997

• For a summary, View Document (below)

Blattberg, Charles, ‘Putting Practices First: From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics’, D.Phil. thesis, Oxford University (1997)

English, John Douglas, ‘Rethinking the Political: Political Ontologies of Modernity’, Ph.D. thesis, The Johns Hopkins University (1997)

• View document (below) for abstract

García Guitián, Elena, ‘Libertad y pluralismo en la obra de I. Berlin’, Ph.D. thesis, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1997)

The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays

Bosniac

• (Sarajevo, 1998: BuyBook) [contracted but not yet published]

Bulgarian

• (in part) (Sofia,2000: Et Cetera)

Catalan

• El veritable estudi de la humanitat: una antologia d'assaigs, trans. Laia Font and Dolors Udina (Barcelona, 2009: Editorial Empúries)

Croatian

• (in part: seven essays only) 1998: Buybook

Finnish

• (in part: five essays only: ‘The Pursuit of the Ideal’, ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, ‘Does Political Theory Exist?’,‘The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West’, ‘The Counter-Enlightenment’, ‘The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will’, ‘The Concept of Scientific History’) Vapaus, ihmisyys ja historia [‘Liberty, humanity and history’] (Helsinki, 2001: Gaudeamus Kirja/Oy Yliopistokustannus University Press)

Japanese

NB: JSW=Japanese translation of Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten): JSW1=JSW vol. 1 (1983); JSW2=JSW vol. 2 (1983); JSW3=JSW vol. 3 (1984); JSW4=Risou no tsuikyu, JSW vol. 4 [translation of The Crooked Timber of Humanity by K. Fukuda, H. Kawai, H. Tanaka and R. Matsumoto] (1992)

• (in part) ‘The Pursuit of the Ideal’ in JSW4; ‘The Concept of Scientific History’ in Rekishi ni okeru kagaku tohananika (Tokyo, 1978: Sanichi Shobo)
• ‘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 JSW2; ‘Historical Inevitability’ in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)
• ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)
• ‘The Counter-Enlightenment’ in JSW3; ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’ in JSW1
• ‘The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities’ in JSW1
• ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox’ as Harinezumi to kitsune (Tokyo, 1973: Chuokoron-Sha) and Harinezumi to kitsune (Tokyo, 1997: Iwanami Shoten)
• ‘Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak’ in JSW2
• ‘The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will’in JSW4
• ‘Nationalism: Past Neglect andPresent Power’ in JSW1
• ‘Winston Churchill in 1940’ in JSW2
• ‘President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’ in JSW2

Portuguese

• (São Paulo, 1999, 2002: Editoria Schwarcz/Companhia das Letras) (Lisbon, 1999: Bisancio)

Romanian

• (Bucharest, 2000: Meridiane)

Russian

Po dlinnaya zel´ Posnaniya (Moscow, 2002: Kanon)

Spanish

• El estudio adecuado de la humanidad, trans. Francisco Gonzáles Aramburo, María Antonia Neira, Hero Rodríguez Toro and Juan José Utrilla (Mexico/Madrid, 2009: Fondo de Cultura Económica/Turner)

‘The Arts in Russia under Stalin’

Italian

Le arti in Russia sotto Stalin, trans. Marina Premoli (Milan, 2001: Archinto)

Portuguese

Empresa Folha da Manha SA 2000

Spanish

Las letras en Rusia bajo Stalin (excerpt), trans. Julio Trujillo, in Letras Libres Year 11 no. 23 (November 2000), 32–5

Russian

‘Litteratura i iskusstvo v Rossii pri Staline’, trans. L. Lakhuty, in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Interview with Göran Rosenberg

• An interview with Göran Rosenberg of the Swedish monthly periodical Moderna Tider (the last filmed interview with IB)
• Recording date: 3/2/97
• First transmission: 10.10 pm 21/5/98 Swedish Television
• Duration: 48 minutes
• Series: Thinkers of Our Time
• Producer: Göran Rosenberg
• Presenter: Göran Rosenberg
• Transcript: Göran Rosenberg
• Recording: Swedish TV; BLSA Tape [to come]

Den sista av sitt slag [The Last of His Kind]: a panel discussion on Isaiah Berlin on Sveriges Radio (Radio Sweden), presented and produced by Per Runesson, July 1998

• ‘Programme [in two parts] about Isaiah Berlin, philosopher, historian and conversationalist. Isaiah Berlin, who died in 1997, was a speaker and thinker who questioned many of the foundations of philosophy. Conversation with two biographers and several friends of Berlin.’ The presenter and one participant speak in Swedish, the English interviewees in English.
• First transmission: 6.15 p.m. 16/7/98 and 23/7/98, Kulturradion, Sverigesradio P1
• Duration: part 1, 43 minutes, 20 seconds; part 2, 43 minutes 33 seconds
• Presenter, Editor and Producer: Per Runesson
• Translation of Swedish: Niklas Magee Mateluna, Henry Hardy (who also transcribed the English), Per Runesson
• English-speaking participants: Roger Hausheer, Michael Ignatieff, Aileen Kelly, Bryan Magee
• Swedish-speaking participant: Svante Nordin
• Recording: part 1 | part 2

View document, below, for a transcript in English (produced by Henry Hardy)

In Our Time

• Michael Ignatieff, IB’s biographer, interviewed about IB by Melvyn Bragg in the first episode of In Our Time
• First transmission: 9.02 am 15/10/98 BBC Radio 4
• Repeat: 9.30 pm 15/10/98 BBC Radio 4
• Duration: 30 minutes (whole programme; parts of the programme are devoted to an interview with the historian Michael Howard)
• Series: In Our Time
• Presenter: Melvyn Bragg
• Recording: BBC

‘My Intellectual Path’ (with Bib.241, under the joint title ‘The First and the Last’), New York Review of Books, 14 May 1998, 53–60

• repr. in The First and the Last (New York, 1999: New York Review Books; London, 1999: Granta), The Power of Ideas and Liberty (in part)
• excerpted as ‘One Man’s Pursuit of Perfection’, Guardian, 9 October 1999, A5
• trans. Chinese (with the mistaken title ‘My Academic Path’) in the book for which it was written, Ouyang Kang (ed.), Dangdai yingmei zhuming zhexuejia xueshu zishu [The Academic Self-Statements of Contemporary British and American Distinguished Philosophers] (Beijing, 2005: The People’s Press), 47–70
• also trans. Catalan, Italian, Latvian (in part), Spanish, Vietnamese