‘Professor Scouten on Herder and Vico’, Comparative Literature Studies 16 (1979), 141–5

‘Einstein and Israel’, New York Review of Books, 8 November 1979, 13–18

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, ed. and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Roger Hausheer (London, 1979: Hogarth Press; New York, 1980: Viking; Oxford, 1981: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin; London, 1997: Pimlico; Princeton, 2001: Princeton University Press)

‘Mr Nicholas Nabokov’ (obituary), The Times, 15 April 1978, 16

‘Tolstoy Remembered’, review of Tatyana Tolstoy, Tolstoy Remembered, New Review 5 no. 2 (Autumn 1978), 3–7

‘Corsi e Ricorsi’, review of Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Donald Phillip Verene (eds), Giambattista Vico’s Science of Humanity, Journal of Modern History 50 (1978), 480–9

Presidential Address, Proceedings of the British Academy 64 (1978), 1–9

(with others) ‘Is a Philosophy of History Possible?’, in Yirmiahu Yovel (ed.), Philosophy of History and Action (Dordrecht/Boston/London, 1978: Reidel; Jerusalem, 1978: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University), 219–40

‘El nacionalismo: descuido del pasado y poder actual’, Diálogos 14 no. 6 (November/December 1978), 10–17

‘Marx’s Kapital and Darwin’, Journal of the History of Ideas 39 (1978), 519

• abstract in the Philosopher’s Index 12 (1978), 234