The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Mackinnon, D. M., A Study in Ethical Theory (London, 1957: Adam & Charles Black), esp. pp. 124–5, 207–17 (and see index s.v. IB)

Anthony West, ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Isaiah Berlin’s Analysis of Tolstoy’s View of History’, New World Writing no. 11 (May 1957), 264–71

• IB responded to the drawing accompanying the article: ‘thank you for all those foxes – what have I started? [Denis] Brogan said in print that I was a modern Aesop’ (to Victor Weybright, 3 May 1957)

‘The Silence in Russian Culture’

Russian

‘Molchanie v russkoikult´ture’, trans. O. Maiorova and M. Akhmetova, in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

‘The Soviet Intelligentsia’

German

Russian

‘Sovetskaya intelligentsiya’, trans. G. Kruzhkov, in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

National Superiority and Inferiority

• Discussion (also referred to as ‘The Social Inequality of Nations’ and ‘Stereotypes’)
• Recording date: 18/3/58
• First transmission: 9.15 pm 26/3/58 BBC Home Service (North Region)
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Series: The Fifty-One Society
• Presenter: Niel Pearson
• Producer: Kenneth Brown
• Transcript: not found at BBC Written Archives under series (where several other transcripts appear) or under any of the above titles (the first of which is used in programme index); not found in programme file at BBC Written Archives; made from recording by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BLSA Tape T11067WR

The Brains Trust

• Member of team
• Recording date: live?
• First transmission: 4.20 pm 8/6/58 BBC Television (first television appearance)
• Duration: 40 minutes
• Repeat(s): 1.10 pm 13/6/58 BBC Home Service
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives

Chaim Weizmann, 2nd Herbert Samuel Lecture (London, 1958: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New York, n. d.: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy), 60 pp.

• repr. as Herzl Institute Pamphlet no. 8 (New York, 1958: Herzl Press)
• with an introduction by Charlotte Jacobson (New York, 1974: World Zionist Organization, American Section)
• repr. in Personal Impressions
• excerpted as ‘Weizmann and England: The First President of Israel’s Complex Relationship with England’ in Judaism Today no. 9 (Spring 1998), Israel’s First 50 Years, 17–21

Two Concepts of Liberty, Inaugural Lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory (Oxford, 1958: Clarendon Press), 55 pp.

Reprinted in:

• Four Essays on Liberty, The Proper Study of Mankind and Liberty
• Preston King (ed.), The Study of Politics: A Collection of Inaugural Lectures (London, 1977: Frank Cass)
• Philip Pettit and Robert E. Goodin (eds), Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology (Oxford, 1998: Blackwell)

Reprinted in part in:

• William Ebenstein (ed.), Modern Political Thought: The Great Issues, 2nd ed. (New York, 1960: Holt, Rinehart and Winston) (as ‘Freedom: Negative or Positive?’)
• Iain MacKenzie (ed.), Political Concepts: A Reader and Guide (Edinburgh, 2005: Edinburgh University Press)
• Anthony Quinton (ed.), Political Philosophy (London, 1967: Oxford University Press)
• David Miller (ed.), Liberty (Oxford, 1991: Oxford University Press)
• Michael Sandel (ed.), Liberalism and Its Critics (Oxford, 1984: Blackwell)
• Nigel Warburton, Arguments for Freedom (Milton Keynes, 1999: The Open University)
• David Miller (ed.), The Liberty Reader (Boulder and London, 2006: Paradigm)
• Robert Senelle and others (eds), The Road to Political Democracy: From Plato to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Brussels, 2012: Academic and Scientific Publishers)
• Matt Zwolinski (ed.), Arguing about Political Philosophy (New York and London, 2009: Routledge)

Edited, with notes, by Kimiyoshi Yura (Kyoto, 1967: Apollon-sha)

Translations:

• Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian (in part), Spanish, Ukrainian

‘Richard Pares’, Balliol College Record 1958, 32–4

• repr. in Personal Impressions

Contribution (principally on Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago) to ‘Books of the Year: I’, Sunday Times, 21 December 1958, 6

• View document (below) for PDF

(with others) ‘Homosexual Acts: Call to Reform Law’ (letter), The Times, 7 March 1958, 11

• View document (below) for PDF

(not directly attributed) ‘Elysian Schools’, Oxford Magazine, 20 February 1958, 298–9

• repr. in The Book of Isaiah

[Utley, T. E.] ‘Public Morals’ (leading article), The Times Literary Supplement, 24 January 1958, 45

‘Two Concepts of Liberty’

Arabic

Belarusian

• In Reader in Contemporary Political Philosophy, trans. Igor Karpikov, Victor Lukyanov and Vyacheslav Voitkevich (Budapest, 1997: Central European University Press), 46-92

Bulgarian

• ‘Dve skhvashchaniya za svobodana’, trans. Maya Kalopherova, introduction byJohn Gray, in Panorama XII, Nos 3–4 (1991), 192–222

Chinese

• (Hong Kong, 2005: The Commercial Press)

Danish

• ‘To slags frihed’, in Den ideale straeben ogandre essays, trans. Anders Smith (Copenhagen, 2005: Gyldendal)

Dutch

• Twee opvattingen van vrijheid, trans. Tine Ausma, with an afterword by Hans Blokland (Amsterdam, 1996: Boom)
• reissued in the series Kleine Klassieken (2010)

Estonian

Georgian

• (Budapest, 1997: Central European University Press)

German

• Trans. Hans Günter Holl, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 41 (1993) no. 4, 741–75

Greek

• In Deucalion 4 no. 13 (1975), 3–17

Hungarian

• (in part) ‘A szabadság két fogalma’, trans. Eros Ferenc, Mûhely [ Workshop ] no. 2 (1990), 4–17
• repr. from Négy esszé aszabadságról, trans. Eros Ferenc and Gábor Berényi (Budapest, 1990: EurópaKönyvkiadó)

Italian

• ‘Due concezioni della libertà’, in Tempo presente 4 no. 6(1959), 434–447 ‘Due concetti dilibertà’, in La libertà politica no. 1 (1974), 103–61
• Trans. in Feltrinelli ed. of 112 repr. in Gaetano Pecora (ed.), La liberta dei moderni (Milan, 1999: Masson)
• Due concetti di libertà, trans. Marco Santambrogio (Milan, 2000: Feltrinelli)

Japanese

• ‘Futatsu no jiyū gainen’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, Rekishinohituzensei (Tokyo, 1966: Misuzu Shobo)
• ‘Futastu no jiyū gainen’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)

Latvian

• Trans. Jānis Nameisis Vējš, in id., Cetras esejas par Berlinu [ Four Essays on Berlin ] (Riga, 2017: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia), 123–51

Lithuanian

Norwegian

• Frihetens grenser, trans. Lars Roar Langslet (Oslo, 1961: Cappelens)

Polish

• Samizdat: ‘Dwie Koncepcje wolności’, in Trójgłos o wolności ([Lublin?], 1987: Wolna Spółka Wydawnicza/Komitywa)
• Dwie Koncepcje wolności i inne eseje, trans. Hanna Bartoszewicz, Daniel Grinberg, Sergiusz Kowalski and Maciej Tanski (Warsaw, 1991: Res Publica)

Russian

• ‘Dva ponimaniya svobodi’, trans. L. Sebov, in Filosofiya svobody: Evropa (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Slovenian

• (in part) ‘Svetišce v Sarastru in vprašanje svobode’, trans. Anamarija Beniger Smerdel, in Nova revija no. 176 (December 1996),81–99

Spanish

• ‘Dos conceptos de libertad’, trans. Julio Bayón, in Libertady necesidad en la historia (Madrid, 1974: Revista de Occidente)
• Dos conceptos de libertad y otros escritos, trans. and ed. Ángel Rivero (Madrid, 2001: Alianza; reissued 2014)

Ukrainian

• In Sucasnist (Munich, 1961), trans. Roman Szporluk (Budapest,1997: Central European University Press)

Fighting Words

• Panel game/discussion (identification/discussion of quotations) with Bernard Levin, Doris Lessing, Fleur Cowles
• Recording date: 18/3/59, London
• First transmission: 31/3/59, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Dominion Network
• Duration: 29 minutes
• Presenter: Nathan Cohen
• Recording: BLSA Tape H3759
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy

Two Concepts of Liberty

• 4 European Service General News Talks

1. The Notion of Negative Freedom
2. The Notion of Positive Freedom
3. The One and the Many
4. The Search for Status

• First transmission: 29/6, 6/7, 13/7, 20/7/59 European Service
• Repeat(s): Hebrew 22/7/59 and at weekly intervals thereafter (read by announcer); Russian Service (read by IB); German Service?
• Series: London Calling Europe: As I See It
• Producer: [set up by Maurice Latey]
• Transcript: not at BBC Written Archives unless among unsorted material; No IV [labelled III] in Berlin Papers
• Recording: no
• Publication: the talks are based on Two Concepts of Liberty, Inaugural Lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory (Oxford, 1958: Clarendon Press) (see Bib.71) No IV published separately as Bib.247

European Unity and Its Vicissitudes (Amsterdam, 1959: Fondation Européenne de la Culture), 31 pp.

• repr. in The Crooked Timber of Humanity
• repr. in Mathieu Segers and Yeri Albracht (eds), Rethinking Europe: Thoughts on Europe: Past, Present and Future (Amsterdam, 2006: Amsterdam University Press), 37–52
• trans. Arabic, Estonian, French, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish

John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life, Robert Waley Cohen Memorial Lecture (London, 1959: Council of Christians and Jews), 32 pp.

• repr. in Four Essays on Liberty and Liberty
• repr. in John Gray and G. W. Smith (eds), J. S. Mill On Liberty in Focus (London and New York, 1991: Routledge)
• as introduction to John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and Utilitarianism, Everyman’s Library 81 (London, 1992: David Campbell; New York, 1992: Knopf)
• in part as ‘Introductory Essay’ in John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government (London, 2008: Folio Society), ix–xxv
• trans. Japanese

The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess, Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture (Cambridge, 1959: Heffer), 49 pp.

• digest in Jewish Chronicle, 13 December 1957, 19
• repr. in Philip Rieff (ed.), On Intellectuals (New York, 1969: Doubleday)
• repr. in Ezra Mendelsohn (ed.), Essential Papers on Jews and the Left (New York and London, 1997: New York University Press)
• repr. in Against the Current
• trans. Estonian, French, Russian

‘An Oxford Manifesto’ (letters), New Statesman 58 (July-December 1959), 511, 582

• repr. at Enlightening 703–4