The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Dalos, György, The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin (London, 1998: Murray; New York, 2000: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [originally published in German as Der Gast der Zukunft: Anna Achmatowa und Sir Isaiah Berlin: Eine Liebesgeschichte trans. (from the original Hungarian) Elsbeth Zylla (Hamburg, 1996: Europäische)]

• trans. Russian (Moscow, 2010)
• extract trans. Polish
• Review: Hart, Jeffrey, ‘Keeping the Flame’, National Review 53 no. 5 (2001), 54

Ignatieff, Michael, Isaiah Berlin: A Life (London, 1998: Chatto and Windus; New York, 1998: Metropolitan)

• trans. Japanese, Korean (with a new preface, July 2012), Portuguese, Polish (excerpt)
• a list of selected amendments to this first edition is here

For reviews View Document (below).

• 2nd edition, revised and updated (London, 2023: Pushkin Press); corrections to this second edition are listed here

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata, Filozofia wolnosci Isaiaha Berlina [Isaiah Berlin’s philosophy of freedom] (Kraków, 1998: Wydawnictwo Znak)

Dewiel, Boris Cedric, ‘Democracy As Diversity: Civil Society, Pluralism and the Limits of the State’, Ph.D. thesis, University Of Calgary (1998)

• View document (below) for abstract

Steinberg, Jonny, ‘Post-Enlightenment Philosophy and Liberal Universalism in the Political Thought of Isaiah Berlin and Richard Rorty’, D.Phil. thesis, Oxford University (1998)

‘My Intellectual Path’

Catalan

‘El meu camí intellectual’, trans. Aitana Guia, L’Espill 6 (2000)

Chinese

‘Wo de xueshuzhilu’, trans. Ouyang Kang and Li, in Dangdai Yingmei Zhuming Zhexuejia Xueshu Zishu (People's Publishing House, 2005)

Italian

Latvian (excerpts on pluralism and freedom)

• ‘Plurālisms’ [‘Pluralism’], introduced by Henry Hardy, trans. Zane Rosenberga, Satori, 6 June 2016, 4–5
• ‘Brīvība’ [‘Freedom’], introduced by Henry Hardy, [trans. Zane Rosenberga,] Satori, 9 June 2016, 4–5

Spanish

(Madrid, 1998: Alianza)

• ‘Mi andaduraintelectual’, trans. Enrico Bocardo Crespo in Isaiah Berlin: La miradadespierta de la historia (Madrid, 1999: Tecnos)
• ‘Mi trayectoria intelectual’, trans. Ana Cristina Ramírez Barreto, Sentidos (Revista de la Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo) no. 12, September 2005, 27–41

Thai

Trans. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Chayanggoon Thamma-un, Nisit Review, 31 August 2018, and Academia

Vietnamese

‘Con Duong Tri Thue Cua Toi’, trans. Nguyen Gia Thuong, in Thong Luan 16 no. 174, October 2003, 21–6 [part 1] and Thong Luan 16 no. 175, November 2003, 22–7 [part 2]

‘The Purpose Justifies the Ways’

Catalan

German

1998: Du

Italian

Spanish

Thai

Trans. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Chayanggoon Thamma-un, Nisit Review, 6 June 2018, and Academia

Vietnamese

‘Cuu canh bien minh cho phuong tien’, trans. Nguyen Dink Tho, in Thong Luan 16 no. 173, September 2003, 22–4

‘A Turning-Point in Political Thought’

Spanish

‘Un punto de inflexión en el pensamiento político’, trans. Enrico Bocardo Crespo, in Isaiah Berlin: La miradadespierta de la historia (Madrid, 1999: Tecnos)

Then We Take Berlin

• Not published
• Documentary on IB’s ideas, including interviews with John Gray, Michael Ignatieff, Steven Lukes, Bob Rae, Charles Taylor, Daniel Weinstock, and extract of IB from An Introduction to Philosophy
• First transmission: 20/10/99 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Series: Ideas
• Producer: Marilyn Powell
• Presenter: Andy Lamey
• Transcription: by Ian Godfrey, available from ideastran@toronto.cbc.ca

The Roots of Romanticism, the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1965, ed. Henry Hardy (London, 1999: Chatto and Windus; Princeton, 1999: Princeton University Press; London, 2000: Pimlico)

• excerpted in The Times Literary Supplement on The Romantics ed. Michael Caines and Alan Jenkins (London, 2005: The Times Literary Supplement), 1–2, 125–126
• trans. Dutch, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Turkish

2nd. ed., foreword by John Gray (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press)

• adds an appendix containing letters (Bib.280) on the Mellon Lectures

See also the catalogue entry B.34 – which lists the six lectures in the series, and links to recordings of them

‘La reputacion de Vico’, trans. by Enrique Bocardo Crespo of review of Peter Burke, Vico, in Pablo Badillo O’Farrell and Enrique Bocardo Crespo (eds), Isaiah Berlin: la mirada despierta de la historia (Madrid, 1999: Tecnos), 17–18

• original English version, ‘The Reputation of Vico’, published in New Vico Studies 17 (1999), 1–5
• repr. in Three Critics of the Enlightenment (2nd ed., 2013)

‘Una testimonianza di Isaiah Berlin’, in Franco Ratto (ed.), All’ombra di Vico: testimonianze e saggi vichiani in ricordo di Giorgio Tagliacozzo (Via Cellini, 1999: Sestante)

Annan, Noel, ‘The Don as Magus – Isaiah Berlin’, in The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (London, 1999: Harper Collins), 209–32

Annan, Noel, ‘Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997)’, Annual Review of Political Science 2 (1999), 363–7

• repr. in The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin

Barberis, Mauro, Libertà (Bologna, 1999: Il mulino)

Barry, Brian, ‘The Study of Politics as a Vocation’, in Jack Hayward, Brian Barry and Archie Brown (eds), The British Study of Politics in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 1999: Oxford University Press/The British Academy)

Bellamy, Richard, Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise (London and New York, 1999: Routledge)

Blokland, Hans, ‘Berlin on Pluralism and Liberalism: A Defence’, European Legacy 4 no. 4 (1999), 1–23

Buruma, Ian, Voltaire’s Coconuts (London, 1999: Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Carr, Raymond, ‘A Living Oxymoron’, review of Ben Rogers, A. J. Ayer: A Life, Spectator, 5 June 1999, 34