The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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OA.1070

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
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OA.1071

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

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OA.1072

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
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OA.1073

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

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OA.1074

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

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OA.1075

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

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OA.1076

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
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OA.1077

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

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OA.1078

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)

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OA.1079

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

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OB.42
Badillo O'Farrell, Pablo (ed.), Filosofía de la razón plural: Isaiah Berlin entre dos siglos (Madrid, 2011: Bibliotheca Nueva)
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OB.43

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

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OT.34

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

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OT.35

Çapan, Alişan, ‘Isaiah Berlin’in Özgürlük Düşüncesi: Negatif Özgürlük–Pozitif Özgürlük Ayrımı’ [‘Isaiah Berlin's Freedom of Thought’], Ph.D. thesis, Galatasaray University (2011)

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OT.36

Gustavsson, Gina, ‘Treacherous Liberties: Isaiah Berlin’s Theory of Positive and Negative Freedom in Contemporary Political Culture’, Ph.D. thesis, Uppsala University (n.d.)

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OT.37

Silva, Elisabete do Rosário Mendes, ‘Liberalismo e os preceitos da Ética Cosmopolita em Isaiah Berlin’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Lisbon (2011)

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B.109(a)

Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone

  • Multimedia show by Ensemble for the Romantic Century including a dramatisation of the meeting between Akhmatova and Berlin: ‘The drama of Russian music woven into a tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption; featuring music by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Shostakovich’
  • Actors: Ellen McLaughlin as Anna, Jeremy Holm as Isaiah
  • First production: Symphony Space, New York, 2012
  • Revival: 27 April to 1 May 2016, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Fisher Space
  • Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
  • Author: Eve Wolf
  • Director: Donald T. Sanders
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B.110

Romance with the West: Anna Akhmatova, Amedeo Modigliani and Sir Isaiah Berlin

  • Russian TV documentary, TV Guberniya: a monologue by the presenter with accompanying stock archive film apparently of no direct relevance
  • First transmission: 2012
  • Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
  • Series: Poets and Muses of the Silver Age, Series 1: Anna Akhmatova
  • Author and presenter: Valery Bondarenko
  • Producer: Aleksandr Zinin
  • Recording: YouTube
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Bib.272(a)

‘M. Henri Heine’ (poem written in 1928), in Arie M. Dubnov, Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (London, 2012: Palgrave Macmillan), 48, with extensive commentary (48–52)

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OA.1080

Aaltonen, Pirjo, Anna Ahmatova: Fontankan talossa [Anna Ahhmatova: Fountain House] (Helsinki, 2012: Into Kustannus Oy), 52–60

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