The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

*A Tribute to Isaiah Berlin

• Interview on IB with John Gray; includes clip of IB from 105
• First transmission: 6 June 2009 ABC Radio National, Australia
• Duration: 25 minutes
• Series: The Philosopher’s Zone
• Presenter: Alan Saunders
• Producer: Kyla Slaven
• Transcript: ABC website
• Recording: ABC website

A Conversation with Isaiah Berlin

• Interview with IB by John Merson, 1974
• First transmission: 13 June 2009 ABC Radio National, Australia
• Duration: 25 minutes
• Series: The Philosopher’s Zone
• Presenter: Alan Saunders
• Producer: Kyla Slaven
• Transcript: ABC website
• Recording: ABC website; YouTube

The Visitor from the Future: Isaiah Berlin

• Russian documentary
• First transmission: 9 September 2009, Russian TV, ‘Culture’ channel
• Duration: 25 minutes 29 seconds
• Series: Civilisation
• Interviewees: Igor Mordvinov, Anatoly Naiman (consultant)
• Producer: Elena Gryaznova
• Translation of soundtrack made for IBVL by Natal′ya Sarana
• Recording: YouTube

Akhmatova against Stalin

• Russian TV documentary (channel 5, St Petersburg); includes (segment 1, 20:16, 20:49, 22:08, 22:32; segment 2, 0:11, 13:55, 17:09, 18:40, 21:40) excerpts from Russian video footage (cameraman: Vyacheslav Stepanov) of interview by Vsevolod Shishkovsky (London correspondent of Russian State TV and Radio) with IB about Akhmatova etc. at Headington House (cf. items 80, 80a); also includes dramatic reconstructions of parts of IB’s visit to AA
• First transmission: 16 December 2009
• Duration: 47 minutes; IB first mentioned 12:00
• Series: Novaya Versiya
• Presenter: Lev Lur'e
• Interviewees: Mikhail Ardov, Anna Kaminskaya, Stanislav Lekarev, Leonid Mlechin, Nina Popova, Vitaly Shentalinsky, Roman Timenchik
• Recording (divided into two segments, each of 23 minutes 30 seconds): segment 1; segment 2

Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960, ed. Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes (London, 2009, Chatto and Windus; London, 2011: Pimlico)

• letter of 28 June 1958 to Rowland Burdon-Muller repr. as ‘Shostakovich at Oxford’, New York Review of Books, 16 July 2009, 22–3 (see also Bib.263 above), and in facsimile in Stephen Hebron, Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries (Oxford, 2014: Bodleian Library Publishing), cat. 80, 237–41 at 238–41
• other extracts in Prospect, June 2009, 80

Letters to Lydia Chukovskaya, in Elena Chukovskaya (ed.), ‘“... esli by vdrug pozvonil Evgenii Onegin ili Taras Bul´ ba”: perepiska sera Isaii Berlina s Lidiei Chukovskoi’ [‘“... if you have suddenly been phoned by Eugene Onegin or Taras Bulba”: The Correspondence of Sir Isaiah Berlin and Lydia Chukovskaya’], Novyi Mir 2009 no. 12 (December 2009), 148–72

• English translations of parts of some letters in Building and Affirming

John Merson, ‘A Conversation with Isaiah Berlin [in 1974]’, ABC Radio National website

Allen, Jonathan, ‘What's the Matter with Monism?’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 12 no. 3 (2009), 469–89

Billington, James H., ‘A Humanist’s Conversation with the 20th Century (Isaiah Berlin, 1909–1997)’, British Academy Review issue 14 (November 2009), 22–4

Bendle, Mervyn F., ‘On Liberty’, Quadrant 53 no. 12 (December 2009)

Brendel, Alfred, ‘Vergnügen an Menschen, Opern und Ideen: Erinnerungen eines Musikers an Isaiah Berlin’, NZZ Online, 6 June 2009

• German version of his contribution to The Book of Isaiah

Blattberg, Charles, Patriotic Elaborations: Essays in Practical Philosophy (Montreal and Kingston, 2009: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2009)

See especially the chapters:

• ‘Political Philosophies and Political Ideologies’
• ‘The Ironic Tragedy of Human Rights’
• ‘On the Minimal Global Ethic’
• ‘Opponents vs. Adversaries in Plato’s Phaedo’

Chanan, Michael, ‘Isaiah Berlin in the Media’, Putney Debater (blog), 4 August 2009

Crowder, George, ‘Pluralism, Liberalism and Distributive Justice’, San Diego Law Review 46 no. 4 (2009), 773–802

Crowder, George, ‘Thunder vs Enlightenment’, Political Theory 36 no. 1 (2009), 161–6

Dénes, Iván Zoltán, Conservative Ideology in the Making (Budapest/New York, 2009: Central European University Press)

Düben, Björn Alex(ander) [Bjerns Aleksandrs Dībens], ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Riga of His Time’ (exhibition panels)

Ferrell, Jason, ‘Isaiah Berlin: Liberalism and Pluralism in Theory and Practice’, Contemporary Political Theory 8 (2009), 295–316

• awarded the Contemporary Political Theory Prize for the best article of 2009

Fraser, Nick, ‘Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker’, Independent, 28 May 2009, 14–15

Galston, William A., ‘Moral Pluralism and Liberal Democracy: Isaiah Berlin’s Heterodox Liberalism’, Review of Politics 71 no. 1 (2009), 85–99

• Offers a valuable overview of much of IB’s thought