The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Lassman, Peter, Pluralism (Cambridge, 2011: Polity)

Liu, Dong, ‘Yuedu Bolin de shinian’ [‘Ten Years Reading Berlin’], interview with Zhonghua dushubao [China Reading Weekly] no. 215, 18 May 2011, 9

• View Document (below) for a biographical note and summary in English

Mendes Silva, Elisabete, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Anglo-American Predicament’, in Adelaide Meiras Serras (ed.), Empire Building and Modernity (Lisbon, 2011: University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies)

Müller, Jan-Werner, Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe (New Haven, 2011: Yale University Press)

Pettit, Philip, ‘The Instability of Freedom as Noninterference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin’, Ethics 121 no. 4 (July 2011), 693–716

Pinker, Steven, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined (New York, 2011: Viking), 186–7

Ramachandran, Nandini, ‘Mystic Myna: Conversations with Dead Folk’

• Originally posted on an online literary blog, but now only accessible through the Internet Archive
• View Document (below) for PDF

Schmidt, James, ‘Inventing a Counter-Enlightenment: Liberalism, Nihilism, and Totalitarianism’, American Historical Association, Boston, January 2011

• the preamble and section IV, ‘Resisting the Enlightenment’, are especially relevant to IB studies

Sikka, Sonia, Herder on Humanity and Cultural Difference: Enlightened Relativism (Cambridge, 2011: Cambridge Univeristy Press)

Aung San Suu Kyi, ‘Liberty’, the first lecture (of five) in ‘Securing Freedom’, the 2011 Reith Lectures

• Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 28 June 2011, 15 July 2011
• Free to download
• View Document (below) for an abstract of the section mentioning IB

Syrjämäki, Sami. ‘Sins of a Historian: Perspectives on the Problem of Anachronism’, PhD thesis, University of Helsinki, 2011

Vējš, J. N., ‘Jesaja Berlins – ideju vēsturnieks, filozofs’ [‘Isaiah Berlin – Historian of Ideas, Philosopher’], Latvijas Zinātņu Akadēmija Vēstis, Part A, Humanities and Social Sciences, 65 (2011) nos 5/6, 53–65

Villaro, Mariona, ‘Naturaleza humana y libertad: bases del liberalismo de Isaiah Berlin’, Cuadernos de Anuario Filosófico (University of Navarra) no. 239 (2011)

Wang, Qian Chugoku ga yonda gendai shiso: Sartre kara Derrida, Schmitt, Rawls made [How does China understand modern thought?: From Sartre to Derrida, Schmitt and Rawls] (Tokyo, 2011: Kodansha)

• examines the reception of modern and post-modern thought in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution
• chapter 12 discusses Berlin, Hayek and Rawls, and their conceptions of liberty and justice

Wang, Zuoliang, ‘The Twentieth Century’ (part 2), chapter 8 of Yingguo sanwen de liubian [The Development of the English Essay], 2nd ed. (Beijing, 2011: Shangwu Yinshuguan [The Commercial Press]), 307–11

• View Document (below) for a summary in English

Yamaoka Ryuichi, ‘Shokyokuteki jiyū to sekkyokuteki jiyū: I. Berlin, Futatsu no. jiū gainen’ [‘Negative Liberty and Positive Liberty: I. Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty’], in S. Inoue and K. Ito (eds), Seiji/ Kenryoku/ Koukyousei [Politics/ Power/ Publicness] (Kyoto, 2011: Sekaishisosha)

Zitzewitz, Josephine von, ‘That’s How It Was: New Theories on Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin, Her “Guest from the Future” ’, The Times Literary Supplement, 9 September 2011, 14–15

Walicki, Andrzej, Encounters with Isaiah Berlin: Story of an Intellectual Friendship (Frankfurt am Main etc., 2011: Peter Lang)

• first published in Dialogue and Universalism

Bode, Mark, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Problem of Counter-Enlightenment Liberalism’, D.Phil. thesis, Adelaide (2011)