The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

‘Jewish Slavery and Emancipation’

Catalan

‘Esclavitud i emancipació dels jueus’, trans. Gustau Muñoz, in L’Espill no.1 (Valencia, 1999: Universitat de València)

French

‘Les juifs: de la servitude à l’émancipation’, trans. Louis Évrard, in Trois essais sur la condition juive (Paris, 1973: Calmann-Lévy)

Hebrew

in Alexander Manor (ed.), The Jews and the National Question (Tel Aviv, 1958?: Ichud Habonim)

Polish

‘Żydzi – od zniewolenia do emancypacji’, trans. Jerzy Brzozowski, in Znak, 35 no. 2–3 (February–March 1983), 339–40

Freedom and its Betrayal

• Lectures given on BBC radio for the Third Programme, 1952: the six subjects are (in the order they were delivered):

1. Claude Adrien Helvétius
2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3. Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814)
4. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
5. [Comte de] St Simon (1760–1825)
6. De Maistre (1754–1821)

• Recording dates: ?, 16/9, ?, ?, ?, ?/52
• First transmission: 9.30 pm 29/10, 9.40 pm 5/11, 9.15 pm 12/11, 9.30 pm 19/11, 9.40 pm 26/11, 9.30 pm 3/12/52 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: each c.55 minutes (No 2 51 minutes 11 seconds, Nos 4 and 5 perhaps c.60 minutes)
• Repeat(s): 3/11, 10/11, 18/11, 25/11, 1/12, 8/12/52 BBC Third Programme (all at 6.00 pm); 9.50 pm 2/5, 9.55 pm 9/5, 9.45 pm 16/5, 9.35 pm 23/5, 9.35 pm 30/5, 9.55 pm 13/6/53 BBC Third Programme
• Producer: Anna Kallin
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: No 2 only BBC Sound Archives LP23384–6; BLSA Tape T10145W

Under the pseudonym ‘O. Utis’, ‘Generalissimo Stalin and the Art of Government’, Foreign Affairs 30 (1952), 197–214

• repr. as ‘The Artificial Dialectic: Generalissimo Stalin and the Art of Government’ in The Soviet Mind
• trans. German, Russian, Swedish

‘Lament for Lipatti’, House and Garden 7 No 3 (March 1952), 91, 98

• See also the compilation 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299

‘Nineteen Fifty-One: A Survey of Cultural Trends of the Year’, in Britannica Book of the Year 1952 (Chicago/Toronto/London, 1952: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.), xxii–xxxi

• repr. in Bib.292, Three Years - Culture and Politics in the Mid Twentieth Century

'Eminent Poseur', Review of Benedetto Croce, My Philosophy, Mind 61 (1952), 574–8

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'The Philosophy of American Social Science', Review of Morton White, Social Thought in America, Mind 61 (1952), 405–9

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‘Dr Chaim Weizmann’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 17 November 1952, 8

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‘The Fate of Liberty’ (letter), The Times, 16 December 1952, 9

• repr. in Enlightening at 343–4

Contribution to ‘Books of the Year’, Sunday Times, 21 December 1952, 6

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Three Years - Culture and Politics in the Mid Twentieth Century

Remarkable detailed surveys of contemporary cultural and political history, from the Britannica Book of the Year volumes for 1950–2; it includes a previously unpublished insertion A Political Review of 1951 (at 41–81, and reproduced separately as Bib.295).

A Political Review of 1951

• Originally written as part of Berlin’s contribution to the Britannica Book of the Year 1952, this lengthy treatment of political developments in 1951 was almost entirely excluded from the published text. It seems that Berlin may have subsequently offered this material to Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, but it was not published there either. It has been included as section I of 1951 in Three Years: Culture and Politics in the Mid Twentieth Century (Bib.292).

anon., report of talk by IB on ‘The Russian Intelligentsia’, 5 November 1952, in ‘Literary Society’, Eton College Chronicle no. 2962 (14 November 1952), 3172

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Bowra, C. M., Heroic Poetry (London, 1952: Macmillan)

• dedicated to IB

Raab, Francis V., ‘History, Freedom, and Responsibility’, Philosophy of Science 26 (1952), 123–32

[Utley. T. E.], ‘The Fate of Liberty’, The Times, 6 December 1952, 7; and letters:

• 9 ‘True Religion or Fanaticism’: Émile Cammaerts, James I. McKie
• 10 ‘Assertion of the Rule of Law’: John Bowle, G. E. Fasnacht
• 12 Edgar W. Jones
• 17 W. Harvey Moore
• 18 Edgar W. Jones

‘Generalissimo Stalin and the Art of Government’

German

Russian

‘Generalissimus Stalin i iskusstvo vlastvovat’, trans. I. Sverdlov, in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Swedish

‘Stalins regeringskonster’, in Samtid och framtid (Summer 1952)

History as an Excuse

• Shortened and revised version of ‘History as an Alibi’, first Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture
• First transmission: 9.05 pm 15/7/53 BBC Third Programme (one talk)
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Repeat(s): 6 pm 20/7/53 BBC Third Programme (one talk); 6, 13, 20/10/53 (three talks, in Hebrew)
• Series: Treasury of the Mind
• Producer: Anna Kallin
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: no
• Publication: full lecture, Historical Inevitability, Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture No 1 (London, 1954: Oxford University Press) (see Bib.54)

‘Henderson at Oxford: 1. All Souls’, in T. Wilson (ed.), ‘Sir Hubert Henderson, 1890–1952’, supplement to Oxford Economic Papers 5 (1953), 55–8

• repr. as ‘Hubert Henderson at All Souls’ in Personal Impressions 

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History (London, 1953: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New York, 1953: Simon and Schuster; New York, 1957: New American Library; New York, 1986: Simon and Schuster, with an introduction by Michael Walzer; second edition, ed. Henry Hardy, foreword by Michael Ignatieff, Princeton, 2014: Princeton University Press)

• Originally published in a shorter form as ‘Lev Tolstoy’s Historical Scepticism’, Oxford Slavonic Papers 2 (1951), 17–54
• excerpt in John Curtis (ed.), Weidenfeld and Nicolson: Fifty Years of Publishing (London, 1999: Weidenfeld and Nicolson), 28–32
• repr. in Russian Thinkers and The Proper Study of Mankind (latter text reprinted separately) (London, 1992: Phoenix; Chicago, 1993: Ivan R. Dee) and excerpted as Tolstoy and History (London, 1996: Phoenix)
• trans. Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian (in part), Polish, Russian, Spanish
• second edition adds an appendix containing a parody by John Bowle (‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’), a review by A. J. P. Taylor, (extracts from) letters (Bib.276), extracts from interviews with Michael Ignatieff, and other material

Reviews:

• anon., Plain View 8 no. 4 (February 1954), 236
• Gardiner, Patrick, Philosophy 30 (1955), 279–82
• Ivask, George, Russian Review 14 no. 4 (October 1955), 379–81
• Niebuhr, Reinhold, New Leader, 22 March 1954, 24
• Schlesinger, Arthur, ‘Many Things v. One Big Thing’, Encounter, November 1953, 77–9

2nd. edition, ed. Henry Hardy, foreword by Michael Ignatieff (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press)

• adds an appendix containing a parody by John Bowle (‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’)
• a review by A. J. P. Taylor
• (extracts from) letters (Bib.276)
• extracts from interviews with Michael Ignatieff, and other material