The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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Bib.52

‘Israel: A Survey’, in The State of Israel (London, 1953: Anglo-Israel Association), 42–55

  • repr. as ‘The Face of Israel’, Jewish Frontier 21 no. 5 (May 1954), 22–30, in Israel: Some Aspects of the New State (London, 1955: Anglo-Israel Association) and as ‘The Origins of Israel’ in Walter Z. Laqueur (ed.), The Middle East in Transition (London, 1958: Routledge and Kegan Paul), and The Power of Ideas
  • trans. French, German
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Bib.53

(unattributed) ‘Thinkers or Philosophers?’, review of N. O. Lossky, History of Russian Philosophy, The Times Literary Supplement, 27 March 1953, 197–8

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Bib.53(a)

Review of Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, trans. F. C. A. Koelnn and J. P. Pettegrove, English Historical Review 68 (1953), 617–19

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Bib.53(b)

Review of George L. Kline, Spinoza in Soviet Philosophy, Oxford Magazine 71 (1952–3), 232–3

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Bib.53(c)

'Virginia Woolf's Genius', Contribution to ‘Books of the Year’, Sunday Times, 20 December 1953, 6, on Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary

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Bib.53(d)

‘Madame Akhmatova’ (letter), New Republic, 14 September 1953, 22–3 (reply to article by Michael Straight)

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OA.14

[Carr, E. H.,] ‘Sociology’ (leading article), The Times Literary Supplement, 9 January 1953, 25

Works on IB
OA.15

S[traight], M[ichael], ‘To Our Readers’, New Republic, 24 August 1953, 23

  • on IB and Anna Akhmatova
Works on IB
OA.16

Weitz, Morris, ‘Oxford Philosophy’, Philosophical Review 62 no. 2 (April 1953), 187–233, esp. pp. 189, 207–11

  • a good survey article on Oxford Philosophy, including IB
  • one of the few examples of someone finding similarities between IB’s philosophical method and ideas, and those of some of his Oxford contemporaries
Works on IB
T.51(a)

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History

Finnish

Siili ja kettu, Tutkielma Tolstoin historianfilosofiasta, trans. Hanna Tarkka (Helsinki, 2004: Otava)

German

Der Igel und der Fuchs, trans. Harry Maor (Frankfurt am Main, 2009: Suhrkamp)

Hebrew

(Israel, 1979)

Italian

Tolstoj e la storia, trans. Aldo Rostagno (Milan, 1959: Lerici) (1978: Emme)

Japanese

Harinezumi to kitsune, trans. Hidekazu Kawai (Tokyo, 1973: Chuokoron-Sha); Harinezumi to kitsune, trans. Hidekazu Kawai (Tokyo, 1997: Iwanami Shoten)

Korean

(2000: Daewon Media)

Lithuanian

Ezys ir lape (Vilnius, 1995: Amzius)

Polish

Jeż i lis: esej o pojmowaniu historii u Tolstoja, trans. Andrzej Konarek, Henryk Krzeczkowski and Krystyna Tarnowska (Warsaw, 1993: Fundacja Aletheia, Pavo [includes trans. by Piotr Siemion of Joseph Brodsky, ‘Isaiah Berlin at Eighty’]); excerpt (The Proper Study of Mankind 436–7, Polish 27–8) in Przeglad Polityczny no. 54 (2002), 98 (Excerpt) ‘Jeż i lis’, trans. Henryk Krzeczkowski, in Twórczość, 28 no. 5 (May 1972), 84–96

Russian

‘Ezh i lisa’, trans. T[atiana] N. Krasavchenko, in Rossiiskiiliteraturovedcheskii zhurnal no. 7 (1996) ‘Ezh i lisa’, trans V. Mikhailin, in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Spanish

El erizo y la zorra , trans. Mario Muchnik (Madrid, 1981: Muchnik Editores) El erizo y la zorra, trans. Carmen Aguilar (Barcelona, 1998: Muchnik Editores) El erizo y la zorra, trans.Carmen Aguilar (Barcelona, 2002: Península)

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T.52

‘Israel: A Survey’

French

‘Panorama d’Israel: formation d’une nation’, trans. Henriette Nizan, in Evidences no. 37 (January 1954), 15–22

German

‘Ideen in der Wüste: von der Disapora zum Staate Israel’, in Der Monat, Issue 8, no. 85 (October 1955), 21–32

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Bib.54

Historical Inevitability [delivered under the title ‘History as an Alibi’], Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture no. 1 (London, 1954: Oxford University Press), 76 pp.

  • repr. in Auguste Comte Memorial Lectures 1953–1962 (London, 1964: Athlone Press), Four Essays on Liberty and Liberty, Patrick Gardiner (ed.), The Philosophy of History (London, 1974: Oxford University Press), and The Proper Study of Mankind
  • excerpted in Hans Meyerhoff (ed.), The Philosophy of History in Our Time: An Anthology (New York, 1959: Doubleday), and Ronald. H. Nash (ed.), Ideas of History (New York, 1969: Dutton)
  • trans. Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
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Bib.54(a)

‘Men Who Lead’ (on Chaim Weizmann), Jerusalem Post, 2 November 1954, 5, 6

  • repr. as ‘The Anatomy of Leadership’ in Jewish Frontier 21 no. 12 (December 1954), 13–17, and as ‘Chaim Weizmann’s Leadership’ in The Power of Ideas
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Bib.55

‘Realism in Politics’, Spectator 193 (1954), 774–6

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Bib.55(a)

‘Calling America to Greatness’, review of Adlai Stevenson, Call to Greatness, Sunday Times, 5 December 1954, 6

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Bib.55(b)

(ed. with Stuart Hampshire and Richard Wollheim) The Library of Ideas, (London, 1954–6: Weidenfeld and Nicolson)

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OA.17

Koestler, Arthur, ‘Judah at the Crossroads’ (1954), in id., The Trail of the Dinosaur and other essays (London, 1955)

Works on IB
OA.18

Toynbee, Philip, Friends Apart (London, 1954: MacGibbon and Kee; repr. London, 1980: Sidgwick and Jackson), 75–80

Works on IB
T.54

‘Historical Inevitability’

Danish

‘Historisk nodvendighed’, in Den ideale straeben og andre essays, trans. Anders Smith (Copenhagen, 2005: Gyldendal)

Italian

Japanese

‘Rekishi no hituzensei’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, Rekishino Hituzensei (Tokyo, 1966: Misuzu Shobo) ‘Rekishi no Hituzensei’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)

Norwegian

Den historiske nodvendighet, trans. Erik Gunnes (Oslo, 1971: Cappelens)

Spanish

‘La inevitabilidad histórica’, trans. Julio Bayón, in Libertad ynecesidad en la historia (Madrid, 1974: Revista de Occidente)

Swedish

Är historien ödesbestämd?, trans. Anders Byttner (Stockholm, 1956: Stockholms Bokindustri)

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B.8

A Marvellous Decade 1838–1848

  • Northcliffe Lectures for 1954 (1 and 4 re-recorded for BBC)
  • The Young Intellectuals
  • Belinsky: The Impact of Western Ideas
  • Belinsky: The Original Contribution of the Russian Intelligentsia
  • Alexander Herzen: His Opinions and Character
  • Recording dates: ?, ?, ?, 16/12/54
  • First transmission: 9.00 pm 26/1, 9.00 pm 2/2, 8.50 pm 9/2, 9.05 pm 16/2/55 BBC Third Programme
  • Duration: each 60 minutes
  • Repeat(s): 6.00 pm 28/1, 6.20 pm 7/2, 6.20 pm 15/2, 6.00 pm 22/2/55 BBC Third Programme
  • Producer: Anna Kallin
  • Transcript: BBC Written Archives (except 2)
  • Recording: No 4 onlyBBC Sound Archives LP23384–6; BLSA Tape T10145R
  • Publication: ‘A Marvellous Decade’ (see Bib.57)
  • ‘1838–48: The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia’, Encounter 4 No 6 (June 1955), 27–39
  • ‘1838–48: German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow’, Encounter 5 No 11 (November 1955), 21–9
  • ‘Belinsky: Moralist and Prophet’, Encounter 5 No 12 (December 1955), 22–43
  • ‘Herzen and the Grand Inquisitors’, Encounter 6 No 5 (May 1956), 20–34
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