The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Contribution to David Pryce-Jones (ed.), George Weidenfeld: A Seventieth Birthday Tribute (n.p., [1989]: privately printed), 7

• full text: 'George Weidenfeld is a unique figure in our society. His inexhaustible vitality, imagination, love and dissemination of culture in all its manifestations, famously generous hospitality, and capacity for taking and giving pleasure, make him excellent company and a most life-giving force. This, I think, would be universally acknowledged. I must add that I find most sympathetic his lifelong, unswerving loyalty to the state of Israel. On all these grounds I am happy to salute him. Long may he continue to add to the gaiety of nations and the enjoyment of civilised people in all the quarters of the globe.'

John Drummond, ‘An Evening with Sir Isaiah Berlin’, Radio 3, 6 June 1989

• not published

Lev Alekseevich Shilov, interview on Boris Pasternak, Albany, London, 1989

• broadcast on Russian radio?

Vsevolod Georgievich Shishkovsky, interview with IB on Anna Akhmatova (principally) and Boris Pasternak

• Vsevolod Georgievich Shishkovsky (London correspondent of Russian State TV and Radio), Headington House, Oxford, April 1989,
• excerpts broadcast on Russian TV

Guy Sorman, ‘Nous ne savons pas où est le port, il faut donc continuer à naviguer’, Les vrais penseurs de notre temps (Paris, 1989: Fayard)

• trans. German, Polish
• Polish translation: ‘Nie wiemy gdzie jest port, więc trzeba płynąć’, in Guy Sorman, Prawdziwi myśliciele naszych czasów [True Thinkers of our Times], trans. Marian Miszalski (Warsaw, 1993: Czytelnik), 354–61

anon., ‘Between Two Worlds: Sir Isaiah Berlin at Eighty’, Jewish Chronicle, 9 June 1989, 30

anon., ‘Embodiement of the Oxford ideal’, Observer, 11 June 1989, 13

[Bohlen, Charles. E.], ‘Letter from the Ambassador in the Philippines (Bohlen) to the Deputy Director (Plans) of Central Intelligence (Wisner)’ (7 October 1957), in Ronald D. Landa and others (eds), Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, vol. xxiv: Soviet Union, Eastern Mediterranean (Washington, 1989: United States Government Printing Office)

Brodsky, Joseph, ‘Isaiah Berlin at Eighty’, New York Review of Books, 17 August 1989, 44–5

De Zan, Julio, ‘La libertad y el concepto de lo politico’, Cuadernos de Filosofía 20 no. 33 (October 1989), 31–9 [API]

Gan, Yang, ‘The Enemy of Liberty: Monism of Truth, Goodness and Beauty’ (in Chinese), Dushu, 10 June 1989, 121–8

• published at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests, this is the first essay written by a Chinese scholar to introduce IB’s thought to mainland China
• View Document (below) for a short English summary

Goodman, Arnold, and Brock, Michael, ‘Isaiah Berlin: The World and Wolfson – Two Appreciations’, Oxford Magazine no. 48 (Trinity Term 1989, Eighth Week), 6–7

Gray, J., ‘On Negative and Positive Liberty’, chapter 4 in his Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy (London and New York, 1989: Routledge), 45–68

Hausheer, Roger, entry on IB in Glenda Abramson (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Oxford, 1989: Blackwell)

Holmes, Stephen, ‘The Lion of Illiberalism’, New Republic, 30 October 1989, 32–7

Ikehata, Tadashi, ‘ “Sekkyokuteki jiyū” toshite no. hyougen no. jiyū: Berlin no. hutatsu no. jiyū gainen wo megutte’ [‘Freedom of Expression as “Positive Freedom” ’], in Rokkodai Ronshu (Kobe University), 36 no. 1 (1989), 87–108

Lukes, Steven, ‘Making Sense of Moral Conflict’, in Nancy L. Rosenblum (ed.), Liberalism and the Moral Life (Cambridge, Mass., 1989: Harvard University Press)

MacDonogh, Giles, The Good German: Adam on Trott zu Solz (London, 1989: Quartet)

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata, ‘One Voice More on Berlin’s Doctrine of Liberty’, Political Studies 37 (1989), 123–7

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata, ‘Two Visions of Liberty – Berlin and Hayek’, Reports on Philosophy 13 (1989), 61–72