The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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Date
OA.25

anon., ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin’ (‘Silhouette’ feature), Jewish Chronicle, 5 June 1959, 11

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OA.26

anon, entry in ‘Cambridge or Oxford?’, The Queen, 9 June 1959, 43–51

  • IB at 48–9
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OA.27

Passmore, John, ‘History, the Individual, and Inevitability’, Philosophical Review 68 (January 1959), 93–102

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OA.28

Sen, Amartyar Kumar, ‘Determinism and Historical Predictions’, Enquiry (Delhi) 2 (1959), 99–115

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OA.29

Sulak Sivaraksa, [in Thai] ‘Concepts’ [on Two Concepts of Liberty, including translated excerpts], Chaō Thai [newspaper], 1959

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OA.30

Ungoed-Thomas, Jasper, ‘An Oxford Manifesto’, New Statesman, 10 October 1959, 463–4

  • letters by IB, 511, 582
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T.73

‘European Unity and Its Vicissitudes’

Arabic

(London, 1992: Dal al Saqi)

Estonian

French

Japanese

‘Europe no touitsu to sono henten’, in Japanese translation of Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten)

Risou no tsuikyu, vol. 4 [translation of The Crooked Timber of Humanity by K. Fukuda, H. Kawai, H. Tanaka and R. Matsumoto] (1992)

Latvian

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

Lithuanian

Russian

‘Evropeiskoe edinstvo i ego sud´by’, trans. Anna Kurt, in Neprikosnovenniizapas: debati o politike i kul´ture 21 no. 1 (2002), 5–19

Spanish

‘La unidad europea y sus vicisitudes’, in Isaiah Berlin, Antología de ensayos, ed.Joaquín Abellán (Madrid, 1995: Calpe)

Translations
T.74

‘John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life’

Japanese

‘John Stuart Mill to sei no mokuteki’, trans. Kouichi Ogawa and KeiKoike, in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)

Translations
T.75

‘The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess’

Estonian

French

‘Moïse Hess, sioniste et communiste’, trans. Louis Évrard, in Trois Essais sur la condition juive (Paris, 1973: Calmann-Lévy)

Japanese

‘Moses Hess no syougai to iken’, Hiroshi Aruga, Selected Works of Berlin, vol. 3 (Tokyo, 1984: Iwanami Shoten)

‘Mōzesu Hesu no shōgai to iken’, trans. Kei Koike, Misuzu 14 (1972) no. 3 (February [sc. March]), 22–31; no. 6 (June), 38–48; no. 7 (July), 45–58

Russian

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B.19

This is the BBC: An Impression of Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of the British Broadcasting Corporation

  • BBC Television documentary
  • Reel 7–9, 120–128, shows IB pretending to give radio talk: see short video clip
  • First transmission: 29/6/60 (the opening of the Television Centre, London) BBC Television (with IB excised)
  • Director: Dick Cawston (1959)
  • Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (of IB’s few seconds; made at National Film Archive)
  • Recording: BBC film library (16mm footage); BFI National Archive (viewing copy on videocassette)
Broadcasts
Bib.76

Introduction to Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution (London, 1960: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New York, 1966: Grosset and Dunlap), vii–xxx

  • repr. as ‘Russian Populism’ in Encounter 15 No1 (July 1960), 13–28
  • repr. in Russian Thinkers
  • trans. Russian
Bibliography
Bib.77

‘History and Theory: The Concept of Scientific History’, History and Theory 1 (1960), 1–31

  • repr. in Alexander V. Riasanovsky and Barnes Riznik (eds), Generalizations in Historical Writing (Philadelphia, 1963: University of Pennsylvania Press)
  • repr. as ‘The Concept of Scientific History’ in William H. Dray (ed.), Philosophical Analysis and History (New York, 1966: Harper and Row)
  • repr. Concepts and Categories and The Proper Study of Mankind
  • trans. German (in part), Japanese, Russian, Spanish
Bibliography
Bib.78

‘Marx’, in J. O. Urmson (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers (London, 1960: Hutchinson; 2nd ed. 1975), 176–81

Bibliography
Bib.79

‘The Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico’, in Art and Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Italy (Rome, 1960: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura), 156–233

Bibliography
Bib.79(a)

‘No Earthly Paradise’, review of Reinhold Niebuhr, Nations and Empires, Guardian, 25 November 1960, 7

Bibliography
Bib.79(b)

Review of Richard Hare, Portraits of Russian Personalities between Reform and Revolution, English Historical Review 75 (1960), 500–2

Bibliography
Bib.80

'Are We Naturally Good?', review of Henry Vyverberg, Historical Pessimism in the French Enlightenment, French Studies 14 (1960), 167–70

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Bib.80(a)

(with others) ‘S.A. Boycott’ (letter), Isis, 11 May 1960, 19

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Bib.80(b)

Letter from IB to the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement, 2 December 1960, 779, on 'Tolstoy and the Enlightenment'

  • Occasioned by the TLS editorial (author, C. M. Woodhouse), Friday 25 November 1960, issue number 3065, 759, 'Tolstoy and Enlightenment'
  • Both the editorial and IB's letter were occasioned by IB's lecture ‘Tolstoy and Enlightenment’, the Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture for 1960 (Bib.82)
OA.31

Bobbio, Norberto, ‘Kant e le due libertà’ (1960), in id., Teoria generale della politica, ed. Michelangelo Bovero (Turin, 1999: Einaudi), 40–53

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