Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West, in Seio yutopia-shiso no suitai (with introductory speeches by Hidemi Kon, President of the Japan Foundation, and Professor Kanichi Fukuda, and a Japanese translation of the lecture) ([Tokyo], March 1978: Japan Foundation), 20 pp.

Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays, ed. Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Bernard Williams (London, 1978: Hogarth Press; New York, 1979: Viking; Oxford, 1980: Oxford University Press; New York, 1981: Penguin; London, 1999: Pimlico; Princeton, 1999: Princeton University Press)

Russian Thinkers, ed. Henry Hardy and Aileen Kelly, with an introduction by Aileen Kelly (London, 1978: Hogarth Press; New York, 1978: Viking; Harmondsworth and New York, 1979: Penguin; London, 1994: Penguin)

Contribution to ‘Reputations Revisited’, The Times Literary Supplement, 21 January 1977, 66

Presidential Address, Proceedings of the British Academy 63 (1977), 1–11

‘Old Russia’, review of Marvin Lyons, Russia in Original Photographs 1860–1920, ed. Andrew Wheatcroft, and Kyril FitzLyon and Tatiana Browning, Before the Revolution: A View of Russia under the Last Tsar, Guardian, 24 November 1977, 14

‘Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism’, in G. P. Morice (ed.), David Hume: Bicentennial Papers (Edinburgh, 1977: Edinburgh University Press), 93–116

• repr. in Against the Current

Contribution to Mstislav Rostropovich: 50th Birthday Gala Concert, concert programme for Rostropovich’s 50th birthday concert at the Royal Festival Hall, 6 March 1977

Sir Harry d’Avigdor Goldsmid, 1906–1976 ([London, 1977]: privately printed), 6 pp.

‘Vico’s Doctrines’ (letter), History Today 26 (1976), 829–30

• a crushing reply to a review of Vico and Herder by Joanna Hodge (who had just graduated from Somerville College, Oxford, in Philosophy and Economics)
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