The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

National Superiority and Inferiority

• Discussion (also referred to as ‘The Social Inequality of Nations’ and ‘Stereotypes’)
• Recording date: 18/3/58
• First transmission: 9.15 pm 26/3/58 BBC Home Service (North Region)
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Series: The Fifty-One Society
• Presenter: Niel Pearson
• Producer: Kenneth Brown
• Transcript: not found at BBC Written Archives under series (where several other transcripts appear) or under any of the above titles (the first of which is used in programme index); not found in programme file at BBC Written Archives; made from recording by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BLSA Tape T11067WR

The Brains Trust

• Member of team
• Recording date: live?
• First transmission: 4.20 pm 8/6/58 BBC Television (first television appearance)
• Duration: 40 minutes
• Repeat(s): 1.10 pm 13/6/58 BBC Home Service
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives

Chaim Weizmann, 2nd Herbert Samuel Lecture (London, 1958: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New York, n. d.: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy), 60 pp.

• repr. as Herzl Institute Pamphlet no. 8 (New York, 1958: Herzl Press)
• with an introduction by Charlotte Jacobson (New York, 1974: World Zionist Organization, American Section)
• repr. in Personal Impressions
• excerpted as ‘Weizmann and England: The First President of Israel’s Complex Relationship with England’ in Judaism Today no. 9 (Spring 1998), Israel’s First 50 Years, 17–21

Two Concepts of Liberty, Inaugural Lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory (Oxford, 1958: Clarendon Press), 55 pp.

Reprinted in:

• Four Essays on Liberty, The Proper Study of Mankind and Liberty
• Preston King (ed.), The Study of Politics: A Collection of Inaugural Lectures (London, 1977: Frank Cass)
• Philip Pettit and Robert E. Goodin (eds), Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology (Oxford, 1998: Blackwell)

Reprinted in part in:

• William Ebenstein (ed.), Modern Political Thought: The Great Issues, 2nd ed. (New York, 1960: Holt, Rinehart and Winston) (as ‘Freedom: Negative or Positive?’)
• Iain MacKenzie (ed.), Political Concepts: A Reader and Guide (Edinburgh, 2005: Edinburgh University Press)
• Anthony Quinton (ed.), Political Philosophy (London, 1967: Oxford University Press)
• David Miller (ed.), Liberty (Oxford, 1991: Oxford University Press)
• Michael Sandel (ed.), Liberalism and Its Critics (Oxford, 1984: Blackwell)
• Nigel Warburton, Arguments for Freedom (Milton Keynes, 1999: The Open University)
• David Miller (ed.), The Liberty Reader (Boulder and London, 2006: Paradigm)
• Robert Senelle and others (eds), The Road to Political Democracy: From Plato to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Brussels, 2012: Academic and Scientific Publishers)
• Matt Zwolinski (ed.), Arguing about Political Philosophy (New York and London, 2009: Routledge)

Edited, with notes, by Kimiyoshi Yura (Kyoto, 1967: Apollon-sha)

Translations:

• Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian (in part), Spanish, Ukrainian

‘Richard Pares’, Balliol College Record 1958, 32–4

• repr. in Personal Impressions

Contribution (principally on Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago) to ‘Books of the Year: I’, Sunday Times, 21 December 1958, 6

• View document (below) for PDF

(with others) ‘Homosexual Acts: Call to Reform Law’ (letter), The Times, 7 March 1958, 11

• View document (below) for PDF

(not directly attributed) ‘Elysian Schools’, Oxford Magazine, 20 February 1958, 298–9

• repr. in The Book of Isaiah

[Utley, T. E.] ‘Public Morals’ (leading article), The Times Literary Supplement, 24 January 1958, 45

‘Two Concepts of Liberty’

Arabic

Belarusian

• In Reader in Contemporary Political Philosophy, trans. Igor Karpikov, Victor Lukyanov and Vyacheslav Voitkevich (Budapest, 1997: Central European University Press), 46-92

Bulgarian

• ‘Dve skhvashchaniya za svobodana’, trans. Maya Kalopherova, introduction byJohn Gray, in Panorama XII, Nos 3–4 (1991), 192–222

Chinese

• (Hong Kong, 2005: The Commercial Press)

Danish

• ‘To slags frihed’, in Den ideale straeben ogandre essays, trans. Anders Smith (Copenhagen, 2005: Gyldendal)

Dutch

• Twee opvattingen van vrijheid, trans. Tine Ausma, with an afterword by Hans Blokland (Amsterdam, 1996: Boom)
• reissued in the series Kleine Klassieken (2010)

Estonian

Georgian

• (Budapest, 1997: Central European University Press)

German

• Trans. Hans Günter Holl, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 41 (1993) no. 4, 741–75

Greek

• In Deucalion 4 no. 13 (1975), 3–17

Hungarian

• (in part) ‘A szabadság két fogalma’, trans. Eros Ferenc, Mûhely [ Workshop ] no. 2 (1990), 4–17
• repr. from Négy esszé aszabadságról, trans. Eros Ferenc and Gábor Berényi (Budapest, 1990: EurópaKönyvkiadó)

Italian

• ‘Due concezioni della libertà’, in Tempo presente 4 no. 6(1959), 434–447 ‘Due concetti dilibertà’, in La libertà politica no. 1 (1974), 103–61
• Trans. in Feltrinelli ed. of 112 repr. in Gaetano Pecora (ed.), La liberta dei moderni (Milan, 1999: Masson)
• Due concetti di libertà, trans. Marco Santambrogio (Milan, 2000: Feltrinelli)

Japanese

• ‘Futatsu no jiyū gainen’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, Rekishinohituzensei (Tokyo, 1966: Misuzu Shobo)
• ‘Futastu no jiyū gainen’, 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)

Latvian

• Trans. Jānis Nameisis Vējš, in id., Cetras esejas par Berlinu [ Four Essays on Berlin ] (Riga, 2017: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia), 123–51

Lithuanian

Norwegian

• Frihetens grenser, trans. Lars Roar Langslet (Oslo, 1961: Cappelens)

Polish

• Samizdat: ‘Dwie Koncepcje wolności’, in Trójgłos o wolności ([Lublin?], 1987: Wolna Spółka Wydawnicza/Komitywa)
• Dwie Koncepcje wolności i inne eseje, trans. Hanna Bartoszewicz, Daniel Grinberg, Sergiusz Kowalski and Maciej Tanski (Warsaw, 1991: Res Publica)

Russian

• ‘Dva ponimaniya svobodi’, trans. L. Sebov, in Filosofiya svobody: Evropa (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

Slovenian

• (in part) ‘Svetišce v Sarastru in vprašanje svobode’, trans. Anamarija Beniger Smerdel, in Nova revija no. 176 (December 1996),81–99

Spanish

• ‘Dos conceptos de libertad’, trans. Julio Bayón, in Libertady necesidad en la historia (Madrid, 1974: Revista de Occidente)
• Dos conceptos de libertad y otros escritos, trans. and ed. Ángel Rivero (Madrid, 2001: Alianza; reissued 2014)

Ukrainian

• In Sucasnist (Munich, 1961), trans. Roman Szporluk (Budapest,1997: Central European University Press)

Fighting Words

• Panel game/discussion (identification/discussion of quotations) with Bernard Levin, Doris Lessing, Fleur Cowles
• Recording date: 18/3/59, London
• First transmission: 31/3/59, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Dominion Network
• Duration: 29 minutes
• Presenter: Nathan Cohen
• Recording: BLSA Tape H3759
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy

Two Concepts of Liberty

• 4 European Service General News Talks

1. The Notion of Negative Freedom
2. The Notion of Positive Freedom
3. The One and the Many
4. The Search for Status

• First transmission: 29/6, 6/7, 13/7, 20/7/59 European Service
• Repeat(s): Hebrew 22/7/59 and at weekly intervals thereafter (read by announcer); Russian Service (read by IB); German Service?
• Series: London Calling Europe: As I See It
• Producer: [set up by Maurice Latey]
• Transcript: not at BBC Written Archives unless among unsorted material; No IV [labelled III] in Berlin Papers
• Recording: no
• Publication: the talks are based on Two Concepts of Liberty, Inaugural Lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory (Oxford, 1958: Clarendon Press) (see Bib.71) No IV published separately as Bib.247

European Unity and Its Vicissitudes (Amsterdam, 1959: Fondation Européenne de la Culture), 31 pp.

• repr. in The Crooked Timber of Humanity
• repr. in Mathieu Segers and Yeri Albracht (eds), Rethinking Europe: Thoughts on Europe: Past, Present and Future (Amsterdam, 2006: Amsterdam University Press), 37–52
• trans. Arabic, Estonian, French, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish

John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life, Robert Waley Cohen Memorial Lecture (London, 1959: Council of Christians and Jews), 32 pp.

• repr. in Four Essays on Liberty and Liberty
• repr. in John Gray and G. W. Smith (eds), J. S. Mill On Liberty in Focus (London and New York, 1991: Routledge)
• as introduction to John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and Utilitarianism, Everyman’s Library 81 (London, 1992: David Campbell; New York, 1992: Knopf)
• in part as ‘Introductory Essay’ in John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government (London, 2008: Folio Society), ix–xxv
• trans. Japanese

The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess, Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture (Cambridge, 1959: Heffer), 49 pp.

• digest in Jewish Chronicle, 13 December 1957, 19
• repr. in Philip Rieff (ed.), On Intellectuals (New York, 1969: Doubleday)
• repr. in Ezra Mendelsohn (ed.), Essential Papers on Jews and the Left (New York and London, 1997: New York University Press)
• repr. in Against the Current
• trans. Estonian, French, Russian

‘An Oxford Manifesto’ (letters), New Statesman 58 (July-December 1959), 511, 582

• repr. at Enlightening 703–4

(with others) ‘Lolita’ (letter), The Times, 23 January 1959, 11

• View document (below) for PDF

Letter (on Moses Hess), Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, 18 December 1959, 17

with A. J. Ayer, Alan Bullock, Stuart Hampshire and Bertrand Russell, ‘Threat to Liberty of Thought’

• an appeal ‘prompted by the South African government’s “latest move to destroy liberty of thought by crushing university education for Africans” ’, reported in The Observer, 8 November 1959, 8a

‘Woodrow Wilson on Education’ (1959), Oxford Magazine, no. 225, Noughth Week, Trinity Term 2004, 3–8

• repr. in Research in Comparative and International Education 7 no. 3 (2012)
• repr. in The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)