The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

‘A Great Russian Writer’, review of Osip Mandelstam, The Prose of Osip Mandelstam: The Noise of Time; Theodosia; The Egyptian Stamp, trans. and ed. Clarence Brown (Princeton, 1965: Princeton University Press), New York Review of Books, 23 December 1965, 3–4

• repr. in The Soviet Mind

‘The Thought of de Tocqueville’, review of Jack Lively, The Social and Political Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, History 50 (1965), 199–206

The Addiction of Russian Intellectuals to Historicism

• Talk given at the Russian Research Center at Harvard, 12/12/1962
• Transcribed by a stenographer but not recorded
• View Document (below) for transcript; and see also Bib.297, Four Lectures on Russian Historicism

‘Russian “Philosophy” ’

• Review of Russian Philosophy, ed. James M. Edie and others: (mostly uncorrected) transcript of dictation – c.December 1965

Julian Budden, ‘The Concert Interval’, Network 3, 4 July 1965 (no recording or transcript survives?)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, Oral History Interview on Kennedy for the John F. Kennedy Library, 12 April 1965

• edited and shortened version published in New York Review of Books, 22 October 1998, 31–7, as ‘On JFK’

Eliot, T. S., To Criticize the Critic (London, 1965: Faber), 137

McCloskey, H. J., ‘A Critique of the Ideals of Liberty’, Mind 74 (1965), 483–508

Murphy, G. G. S., ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin on the Concept of Scientific History: A Comment’, History and Theory 4 (1965), 234–43

Pollard, Sydney, ‘Economic History – A Science of Society?’, Past and Present 30 (April 1965), 3–22

Ryan, Alan, ‘Freedom’, Philosophy 40 (April 1965), 93–112

• abstract in The Philosopher’s Index website

Thomas, D. O., ‘Political Philosophy Today’, Philosophy 40 (April 1965), 162–164

White, Morton, The Foundations of Historical Knowledge (New York, 1965: Harper & Row), 275 ff.

‘Herder and the Enlightenment’

Spanish

• ‘Herder’, trans. Hernando Valencia Goelkel, in ECO: Revista de lacultura de occidente (Bogota) 12, Nos 2–4 (December–February 1965) [Nos 68–70], respectively 133–58, 299–336, 392–424
• ‘Herder y la Illustración’, in Isaiah Berlin, Antología de ensayos, ed. Joaquín Abellán (Madrid, 1995: Espasa Calpe)

‘Sulla teoria del Vico circa la conoscenza storica’ In Lettere italiane 17 no. 4 (October–December 1965), 420–31

New Oxford College: an interview with Derek Cooper on IB's appointment as the founding ‘Master’ [i.e. President] of Wolfson College, Oxford

• Recording date: 29/6/66
• First transmission: 7.15/8.15 am 30/6/66 BBC Home Service
• Series: Today
• Presenter: Jack de Manio
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives (presenter’s contributions only); IB’s contributions transcribed by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives LP30291

Some Sources of Romanticism: the six A. W. Mellon Lectures (sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation), delivered at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March–April 1965 (there is a link to a recording of each lecture in the titles below):

1. In Search of a Definition
2. The First Attack on Enlightenment
3. The True Fathers of Romanticism
4. The Restrained Romantics
5. Unbridled Romanticism
6. The Lasting Effects

• Recording dates: 14/3, 21/3, 28/3, 4/4, 11/4, 18/4/65
• First transmission: 7.55 pm 10/8, 8.00 pm 16/8, 7.55 pm 23/8, 7.30 pm 29/8, 7.30 pm 5/9, 7.30 pm 12/9/66 BBC Third Programme
• Durations: 51 minutes 26 seconds, 57 minutes 45 seconds, 53 minutes 20 seconds, 58 minutes 7 seconds, 58 minutes 20 seconds, 69 minutes 32 seconds
• Repeat(s): 5/10, 9/10, 17/10, 24/10, 30/10, 6/11/67 BBC Third Programme (all at 7.30 pm); 1975 in Australia (without IB’s approval); 8.15 pm 6/6, 10.00 pm 12/6/89 etc. BBC Radio 3 in An Evening with Sir Isaiah Berlin
• Producer: Helen Rapp
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives; Berlin Papers
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T31558–63; BLSA Tapes T132R, T274W, T272W, T10191W, T256W, T275W

Joseph de Maistre

• Woodbridge Lecture, Columbia University, New York
• Recording date: (27?) October 1965
• Duration: 61 minutes
• Series: ‘Two Enemies of the Enlightenment’ (four lectures by IB, of which this was the 3rd – cf. previous item)
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (edited)
• Recording: BLSA Tape T11064WR; podcast; available on YouTube here
• Publication: cf. ‘Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism’, in The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (London, 1990: John Murray; New York, 1991: Knopf; London, 1991: Fontana Press; New York, 1992: Vintage Books) = Bib.200
• NB: there is no written or spoken record of the first and last of the four lectures

Introduction to Marc Raeff (ed.), Russian Intellectual History (New York/Chicago/Burlingame, 1966: Harcourt, Brace and World; Hassocks, 1978: Harvester; New York, 1978: Humanities Press), 3–11

• repr. as ‘Russian Intellectual History’ in The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)

Preface to H. G. Schenk, The Mind of the European Romantics (London, 1966: Constable; New York, 1969: Doubleday; Oxford, 1979: Oxford University Press), xiii–xviii

• repr. as ‘The Essence of European Romanticism’ in The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)
• trans. Japanese, Spanish