Though
like Our Lord and Socrates he does not publish much, he thinks and says a great
deal and has had an enormous influence on our times. - Maurice Bowra [1]
[1] In a letter
written to Noel Annan in 1971, when Berlin was appointed to the Order of Merit.
See Noel Annan, ‘A Man I Loved’, in Hugh Lloyd-Jones (ed.), Maurice Bowra: A
Celebration (London, 1974), 53. [back]
[2] In ‘Literary
Style in England and America’, Books on Trial 14 no. 2 (October 1955):
see The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat
Gallagher (London, 1983: Methuen), 479–80. [back]
Bowra’s belief that Isaiah
Berlin rarely ventures into print was at one time widely held, but did not fit
the facts. By 1971, when Bowra made his remark, Berlin had published a great
deal on a wide variety of subjects, but, apart from his biography of Marx (item
24 below) and his anthology of eighteenth-century philosophical writings (62),
his work had been of essay length, and had originally appeared in (sometimes
obscure) periodicals and symposia, or as occasional pamphlets; most of it had
been long out of print; and only one collection – Four Essays on Liberty
(112) – had appeared in English. These considerations probably explain the
once common under-estimate of the bulk of his writings. My belief is that this
bibliography (first published in 1975), together with the nine additional
volumes that have now appeared – including those that make available work
that had not previously been published – has set the record definitively
straight.
It is likely that the list
is not quite complete: though I have conducted explorations on many fronts, my
searches have not been exhaustively systematic. [3] I shall be grateful for
notification of errors or omissions. But I do not think anything important is
missing. I have excluded Berlin’s numerous unpublished broadcasts, his almost
equally numerous interviews, [4] bibliographical details of
translations into foreign languages, and a handful of minor items, mainly
non-academic letters to the press.
[3] For an informal
account of how this bibliography came to be compiled, and of the genesis of the
project of which it formed a part, see my ‘Editing
Isaiah Berlin’s Writings’, British Book News, January
1978, 3, 5, repr. in Lycidas (the magazine of Wolfson College, Oxford)
no. 7 (1978–9), 34–54. [back]
[4] It would be
unhelpful, though, to press these exclusions to the point of not mentioning (a)
that a number of the broadcasts, including the 1965 Mellon Lectures, ‘Some
Sources of Romanticism’, can be heard at the National Sound Archive in London;
(b) that an important volume of conversations exists (first published in
a French translation in 1991): Ramin Jahanbegloo, Conversations with Isaiah
Berlin (London, 1992: Peter Halban; New York, 1992: Scribner’s; London,
1993: Phoenix). [back]
It may be of some
assistance to provide a rudimentary sketch-map for those who are not already
familiar with Berlin’s work, and wish to sample it in a non-random fashion: it
is not always easy to tell from a brief bibliographical entry whether an item
is substantial or not, or what its subject-matter is. It is impossible to
classify definitively writings which are so remarkably free of the restrictions
of conventional subject boundaries, especially since the categories that
suggest themselves – in particular philosophy, political theory, history
of ideas – overlap so extensively on their own account. One needs a Venn
diagram. But, failing that, I hope the following is a useful guide.
The contents of Berlin’s
collections of essays, set out in the list at the end of this bibliography,
provide the beginnings of a classification. But each volume lacks, for various
reasons, certain items which belong in its category; and some categories are
not represented as such, or at all, in the contents of any volume. So it is
worth giving more complete lists here. (Titles of collections are given, both
in this introduction and in the list that follows, in abbreviated form.)
The major essays on
Russian thought, in addition to those included in RT (157) and POI (245) are
108, 169 and 228; the main essays on the Soviet Union are collected in SM
(256).
Most of the principal
philosophical papers are reprinted, together with 85 (a more popular article on
the nature of the subject), in CC (158), but there are also 20, 54 (with the
first part of the introduction to 253), 232 and 235. It is somewhat arbitrary
to separate these items from those which fall most naturally under political
theory, namely 64 and 81, both in CC, 71 (with the second part of the
introduction to 253) and 233.
Many of the main essays in
the history of ideas are included in AC (166), CTH (199), SR (227) and TCE
(246). There are also 37, 38, the introduction to 62, and 74. There are several
studies devoted to individual thinkers: AC includes pieces on Montesquieu (58),
Moses Hess (75), Vico (114 and 152), Sore1 (121) and Machiavelli (122); in the
same category belong essays on Marx (24 and 78), Herder (98), Maistre (200 and
218) and Hamann (212), and other essays on Vico (79, 99, the bulk of 139, 181
and the more popular 115 and 130). Items 79, 98 and 99 were superseded by VH
(148), itself now incorporated into TCE (246). One might also include under
history of ideas many of the Russian essays mentioned above.
There are numerous memoirs
of and tributes to twentieth-century figures, mainly scholars, statesmen and
writers. Most of the more substantial pieces in this category are reprinted in
PI (167).
The principal Jewish
studies, apart from 70, 75, 166a and 214, already assigned to other categories,
are 43, 84, 118 and 126; there are also 52, 54a, 95, 119, 135 and 188a.
Finally there are the
musicological items 89, 110, 124, 186 and 192b.
Much else, of course, is
of interest. In particular, I have not included most books in this survey, some
of which are effectively essays in their own right. There is no substitute for
working right through the bibliography if nothing in a particular area is to be
missed. But the selection I have listed comprises the main published oeuvre at
the time of writing (December 2011). (There is also a great deal of still
unpublished work, much of which will I hope one day see the light, either in
print or on this website, where much unpublished material is already posted.)
Where an item has been
reprinted in one of the volumes of collected essays, the title of the relevant
volume is given in abbreviated form.
In updating the list I
have not changed the numbering of items established in 1979 in the first
edition of AC, lest this lead to confusion. Earlier items that have come to
light since then are numbered ‘45a’, ‘166b’ etc.
1928
1 (unattributed)
‘The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton’, review of The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton,
Pauline 46 (1928), 13–15
1a ‘Reflections
on the Art of John Armstrong (O.P.)’, Debater (St
Paul’s School) no. 9 (March 1928), 4
1b The Truro
Prize Essay (1928) (on freedom), Debater (St
Paul’s School) no. 10 (November 1928), 3, and no. 11 (July 1929), 22; repr. as
‘Freedom’ in L1
1c (ed. with
others) The Radiator (St
Paul’s School) vol. 1 no. 1 (Summer 1928); if (as seems likely) there are any
contributions by IB, they are unsigned; one that is almost certainly his is
‘Our Interview with GKC’, 24–5 (repr. at L1 7–8)
1929
2 ‘Pelican
s’en va-t-en guerre: a tale of war and peace’, Pelican Record 19 (1929), 34: IB was one of the
editors of this journal, the magazine of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from
vol. 19 no. 4 (December 1929) to vol. 20 no. 4 (June 1932); every issue
contains unsigned items, some of which may be his
2a (unattributed)
Review of Oliver Elton, C. E.
Montague: A Memoir, Pelican
Record 19 (1929), 85
1930
2b (under
pseudonym ‘Albert Alfred Apricott’) ‘Music Chronicle’, Oxford Outlook 10 no. 53
(November 1930), 616–27: IB edited six issues of this periodical, from vol. 10
no. 52 (May 1930) to vol. 12 No 57 (February 1932), jointly with Arthur
Calder-Marshall for no. 52, with Richard Goodman for Nos 55–7; there are
unsigned editorials in vol. 10 no. 52 (May 1930), 467–9, and vol. 11 no. 56
(November 1931), 157–60, which may be wholly or partly by IB, though the style
is not obviously his
3 ‘Some
Procrustations’, Oxford Outlook 10 no.
52 (May 1930), 491–502
4 Editorial, Oxford Outlook 10 no. 53
(November 1930), 561–5
5 Review of
Ernst Benkard, Undying Faces, Oxford Outlook 10 no. 53
(November 1930), 628–30
1931
6 (under
pseudonym ‘A.A.A.’: cf. 2b) ‘Music Chronicle’, Oxford Outlook 11 no. 54 (March 1931), 49–53
7 (under
pseudonym ‘A.A.A.’: cf. 2b) ‘Music Chronicle’, Oxford Outlook 11 no. 55 (June 1931), 131–5
8
(unattributed) ‘Oglethorpe University, Ga’, Pelican
Record 20 (1931), 34–40
9 Editorial, Oxford Outlook 11 no. 54 (March
1931), 1–2
10 ‘Alexander
Blok’, editorial, Oxford Outlook 11 no.
55 (1931), 73–6; see also ibid., 225
11 Translation
of Alexander Blok, ‘The Collapse of Humanism’, Oxford Outlook 11 no. 55 (June 1931), 89–112
1932
12 ‘Music
Chronicle’, Oxford Outlook 12 no.
57 (February 1932), 61–5
13 ‘Music
Chronicle’, Oxford Outlook 12 no.
58 (May 1932), 133–8
14 Review of
Leonard Woolf, After the Deluge, Oxford Outlook 12 no. 57
(February 1932), 68–70
1933
15 Review of
Havelock Ellis, Views and Reviews: First Series,
Criterion 12 (1933), 295–8
1934
16 ‘Music in
Decline’, review of Constant Lambert, Music Ho!,
Spectator 152 (1934), 745–6
1935
16a
‘Impressionist Philosophy’, review of Henri Bergson, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion,
trans. R. A. Andra and C. Brereton, London
Mercury 32 (1935), 489–90
17 ‘Musiciens
d’autrefois’, review of Bernard van Dieren, Down Among
the Dead Men, Spectator
155 (1935), 732 (letter, 906)
17a ‘The Second
Confucius’, review of John Dewey, Art as
Experience, London
Mercury 31 (1934–5), 387–8
1936
18 ‘The Future
of Music’, review of Cecil Gray, Predicaments,
or Music and the Future, Spectator
157 (1936), 317–18
18a ‘Gramophone
Notes’, Oxford Magazine 54 (1935–6),
370 (unattributed), 463–4, 717; 55 (1936–7), 182
19 ‘Obscurum
per obscurius’, review of T. A. Jackson, Dialectics,
Spectator 156 (1936), 888
19a ‘Plato’,
review of G. M. A. Grube, Plato’s
Thought, and Vladimir Solovyev, Plato,
trans. Richard Gill, with a note on Solovyev by Janko Lavrin, London Mercury 33 (1935–6), 452–3
19b
Contribution (extract from a personal letter) to Daniel Henry Hertz: In Memoriam (London, 1936:
privately printed), 7
1937
19c ‘Boyd Neel
String Orchestra’, Oxford Magazine
55 (1936–7), 588–9
20 ‘Induction
and Hypothesis’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society supplementary vol. 16 (1937), 63–102
21 ‘The Father
of Anarchism’, review of E. H. Carr, Michael
Bakunin, Spectator
159 (1937), 1186
21a ‘Gramophone
Notes’, Oxford Magazine 55
(1936–7), 568
21b ‘The Mass
in D’, review of a performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Oxford
Magazine 55 (1936–7), 558–9
21c
(unattributed) ‘Toscanini’, Oxford
Magazine 55 (1936–7), 719–20
22 Review of
Julius Weinberg, An Examination of Logical
Positivism, Criterion
17 (1937–8), 174–82; repr. as ‘Logical Positivism’ in CC2
1938
23 ‘The Development
of Modern Music’, review of Gerald Abraham, A Hundred Years of Music, Spectator
161 (1938), 489–90
23a ‘Gramophone
Notes’, Oxford Magazine 56 (1937–8), 770–1; 57 (1938–9), 243
23b ‘Laws of Musical
Sound’, review of Sir James Jeans, Science and Music, London Mercury
37 (1937–8), 356
23c ‘Oxford
Subscription Concert’, Oxford Magazine 56 (1937–8), 470–1
23d Review of Constance
Maund, Hume’s Theory of Knowledge, Oxford Magazine 57 (1938–9),
224–5
1939
24 Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (London, 1939: Thornton
Butterworth; Toronto, 1939: Nelson); ‘the best elementary introduction to Marx
for the English reader’, The Times Literary Supplement, 13 September
1963, 694
Review
[Charques, Richard
Denis,] ‘In the Name of Marx: The Philosopher and the Right’, The Times
Literary Supplement, 7 October 1939, 570
Rowse, A. L., Political
Quarterly 11 no. 1 (January 1940), 127–30; repr. in id., The End of an
Epoch: Reflections on Contemporary History (London, 1947: Macmillan), 253–6
2nd ed. (London,
1948: Oxford University Press; New York, 1959: Oxford University Press); repr.
with corrections (London and New York, 1960: Oxford University Press); trans.
French, German (with
extra material)
Reviews
Bruhat, Jean, Pensée,
April 1963, 145–7; extremely
negative
Maus, Heinz, review
of Karl Marx: sein Leben und sein Werk, Neue Politische Literatur
6 no. 6 (January 1961), 492
3rd ed. (London and
New York, 1963: Oxford University Press; New York, 1963: Time Inc.; [Tokyo],
1963: Oxford University Press/Maruzen) (‘after nearly forty years still gleams
like the golden bough through the murky forest of literature about Marx’: Hugh
Lloyd-Jones, The Times Literary Supplement, 4 February 1977, 118);
trans. Dutch, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish,
Swedish
4th ed., with a
guide to further reading by Terrell Carver (Oxford and New York, 1978: Oxford
University Press; London, 1978: Book Club Associates; foreword by Alan Ryan,
London, 1995: Fontana Press); trans. Dutch, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
5th ed., ed. Henry
Hardy, foreword by Alan Ryan and afterword and (revised) guide to further
reading by Terrell Carver (Princeton and Oxford, 2013: Princeton University
Press); a thoroughly revised text with references added for quotations
25 ‘Verification’, Proceedings
of the Aristotelian Society 39 (1938–9), 225–48; repr. in G. H. R.
Parkinson (ed.), The Theory of Meaning (London, 1968: Oxford University
Press), Mark J. Smith (ed.), Philosophy and Methodology of the Social
Sciences, vol. 1, Canons and Custodians: Scientific Enquiry in the 20th
Century (London, 2005: Sage), 35–53, and CC; trans. Spanish
26 Review of Karl
Britton, Communication, Mind 48 (1939), 518–27
1940
26a ‘Gramophone
Notes’, Oxford Magazine 58 (1939–40), 306–7
1947
27 ‘The Man Who
Became a Myth’, Listener 38 (1947), 23–5; repr. in John Morris (ed.), From
the Third Programme: A Ten Years’ Anthology (London, 1956: Nonesuch Press)
(with the subtitle ‘Belinsky and his Influence on Nineteenth-Century Russia’),
and POI
28 Review of Bertrand
Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, Mind 56 (1947), 151–66;
repr. in A. D. Irvine (ed.), Bertrand Russell: History of Philosophy,
Ethics, Education, Religion and Politics, vol. 4 of Bertrand Russell:
Critical Assessments, 4 vols (London and New York, 1998: Routledge), and as
‘Russell’s History of Philosophy’ in CTH2
28a ‘Digest’ of
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, British Book News
80 (April 1947), 210–11; repr. in British Book News 1947 (London, 1949)
1948
29 ‘Karajan: A
Study’, Observer, 19 September 1948, 2
30 ‘Russia and
1848’, Slavonic Review 26 (1948), 341–60; repr. in Heinz Lubasz (ed.), Revolutions
in Modern European History (New York/London, 1966:
Macmillan/Collier-Macmillan) (with revisions), and RT; trans. Polish, Russian
30a Review of Bishop
Fan S. Noli, Beethoven and the French Revolution, English Historical
Review 63 (1948), 565–6
30b Review of Henri
Troyat, Firebrand: The Life of Dostoevsky, Listener 40 (1948),
102
1949
31 ‘The
Anglo-American Predicament’, Listener 42 (1949), 518–19 and 538
(letters, 681, 813, 815)
31a Contribution to
‘Notes on the Way’ column, Time and Tide 30 (1949), 1133–4, 1157–8,
1187–8; repr. as ‘The Intellectual Life of American Universities’ in L2
32 ‘Mr Churchill’
(review of Churchill’s 2nd vol. of war memoirs, Their Finest Hour), Atlantic
Monthly 184 no. 3 (September 1949), 35–44; as ‘Mr Churchill and FDR’, Cornhill
Magazine 981 (Winter 1949/1950), 219–40 (‘a bright fire of affection and
confidence’, The Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 1949, 846);
repr. in Edward Weeks and Emily Flint (eds), New England Oracle: A Choice
Selection from One Hundred Years of the Atlantic Monthly (London, 1958:
Collins), as Mr Churchill in 1940 (London, [1964]; John Murray;
Boston/Cambridge, n.d.: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press) (‘The finest and most
penetrating salute that has yet been written’, Sunday Times, quoted in The
Times Literary Supplement, 18 February 1965, 120), and as ‘Winston
Churchill in 1940’ in PI and PSM; excerpted as ‘Roosevelt and Churchill: A
Study of Two Great Personalities’ in News Chronicle, 12 December 1949,
2; trans. German
33 ‘Three
Who Made a Revolution’, review of Bertram D. Wolfe, Three
Who Made a Revolution, American Historical Review 55 (1949), 86–92
34 Review of G. V. Plekhanov, In Defence of Materialism, trans.
Andrew Rothstein, Slavonic Review 28 (1949–50), 257–62 (letter, 607–10)
34a ‘Attitude
on Marxism Stated: Dr Berlin Amplifies His Remarks Made at Mount Holyoke’
(letter), New York Times, 8 July 1949, 18; repr. at L2 99–100
34b Review of
Leopold Schwarzschild, The Red Prussian: The Life and Legend of Karl Marx,
International Affairs 25 (1949), 532–3
1950
35 ‘Empirical
Propositions and Hypothetical Statements’, Mind 59 (1950), 289–312;
repr. in Robert J. Schwartz (ed.), Perceiving, Sensing, and Knowing (New
York, 1965: Doubleday), Mark J. Smith (ed.), Philosophy and Methodology of
the Social Sciences, vol. 1, Canons and Custodians: Scientific Enquiry
in the 20th Century (London, 2005: Sage), 71–94, and CC
36 ‘Logical
Translation’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 50 (1949–50),
157–88; repr. in Mark J. Smith (ed.), Philosophy and Methodology of the
Social Sciences, vol. 1, Canons and Custodians: Scientific Enquiry in
the 20th Century (London, 2005: Sage), 95–119, and CC
36a ‘The
Trends of Culture’, contribution to ‘The Year 1949 in
Historical Perspective’, in 1950 Britannica Book of the Year
(Chicago/Toronto/London, 1950: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.), xxii–xxxi
37 ‘Political
Ideas in the Twentieth Century’, Foreign Affairs 28 (1950), 351–85;
repr. in FEL and L and in part in David Cooperman and E. V.
Walter (eds), Power and Civilization: Political Thought in the Twentieth
Century (New York, 1962: Crowell); trans. German, Japanese, Norwegian,
Polish, Russian (in part, from Hebrew (see 112))
38 ‘Socialism and
Socialist Theories’, Chambers’s Encyclopaedia (London, 1950: Newnes; New
York, 1950: Oxford University Press), vol. 12, 638–50 (‘a quite outstanding
article’, The Times Literary Supplement, 4 August 1950, 486); revised in
1966 ed. (Oxford, New York etc.: Pergamon), vol. 12, 640–52; repr. with further
revisions in SR
39 Translation of
Ivan Turgenev, First Love: with Rudin, trans. Alex Brown, and an
introduction by Lord David Cecil (London, 1950: Hamish Hamilton) (‘it is a
refreshing fact that there exist in this country a few writers whose
sensibility to [the Russian] classics is matched by their command of Russian
and English, so that from time to time we are given an insight as acute as that
provided by Mr Isaiah Berlin in his translation of Turgenev’s First Love’:
[Alan Pryce-Jones,] The Times Literary Supplement, 18 December 1953,
817); illustrated ‘with charming new drawings by Fritz Wegner’ (The Times
Literary Supplement, 11 January 1957, 21), but without Rudin
(London, 1956: Hamish Hamilton; London, 1965: Panther; Harmondsworth, 1977:
Penguin); repr. with an introduction by V. S. Pritchett (Harmondsworth, 1978:
Penguin); reissued (with Cecil’s introduction) with 66 as First Love
[and] A Fire at Sea (London, 1982: Hogarth Press; New York, 1983:
Viking); reissued with 66 and Spring Torrents (trans. Leonard Schapiro)
as First Love and Other Stories (London, 1994: David Campbell Publishers
[Everyman’s Library]); trans. Malay
Reviews
Dinnage, Paul,
‘Russian Tales’ (also reviews other translations of Turgevev), Spectator,
22 September 1950, 328
Smart, Elizabeth,
‘Ah, Me!’, Spectator, 2 April 1977, 28–9; ‘Isaiah Berlin’s translation
is a beautiful virtuoso performance, without bump or jar’
39a ‘Soviet
Beginnings’, review of E. H. Carr, A History of
Soviet Russia, vol. 1: The Bolshevik Revolution 1917–1923, Sunday
Times, 10 December 1950, 3
40 ‘Russian
Literature: The Great Century’, review of D. S.
Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature, Nation 170 (1950),
180–3, 207–8
41 ‘The
Energy of Pasternak’, review of Boris Pasternak, Selected
Writings, Partisan Review 17 (1950), 748–51; repr. in Victor Erlich
(ed.), Pasternak: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
1978: Prentice-Hall)
41a ‘
“ A Sense of Reality” about Russia’, review of Walter
Bedell Smith, My Three Years in Moscow, New York Times Book Review,
8 January 1950, 1, 25
42 ‘A
View of Russian Literature’, review of Marc
Slonim, The Epic of Russian Literature, Partisan Review 17
(1950), 617–23
1951
43 ‘Jewish Slavery and Emancipation’, Jewish
Chronicle, 21 September 1951, 17, 24; 28 September 1951, 17, 19; 5 October
1951, 13, 15; 12 October 1951, 8; repr. from Norman Bentwich (ed.), Hebrew
University Garland (London, 1952: Constellation Books), 18–42; repr. in
Zalman Shazar and Nathan Rotenstreich (eds), Forum for the Problems of
Zionism, World Jewry and the State of Israel 1 (December 1953 [Jerusalem:
Information Dept of the Jewish Agency]) – repr. therefrom as Herzl
Institute Pamphlet no. 18 (New York, 1961: Herzl Press) – and in POI;
trans. Catalan, French, Hebrew; see also 152a
Review
Himmelfarb,
Milton, ‘Unease in Zionism’, review of
Zalman Shazar and Nathan Rotenstreich (eds), Forum: For the Problems of
Zionism, World Jewry and the State of Israel no. 1 (December 1953
[Jerusalem: Information Dept of the Jewish Agency]) (which includes IB’s
essay), Commentary 18 (October 1954), 378–82
44 ‘Lev Tolstoy’s
Historical Scepticism’, Oxford Slavonic Papers 2 (1951), 17–54
(‘ambitious and stimulating […] This is one of the most interesting and
important contributions to Tolstoyan criticism to appear […] for many years’, The
Times Literary Supplement, 25 January 1952, 81); repr. with additions as The
Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History (London, 1953:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New York, 1953: Simon and Schuster; New York, 1957:
New American Library; New York, 1986: Simon and Schuster, with an introduction
by Michael Walzer); repr. in RT and PSM; PSM text reprinted separately (London,
1992: Phoenix; Chicago, 1993: Ivan R. Dee) and excerpted as Tolstoy and
History (London, 1996: Phoenix); trans. Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian (in part), Polish, Russian, Spanish; see also 173
Reviews
anon., Plain View
8 no. 4 (February 1954), 236
Gardiner, Patrick, Philosophy
30 (1955), 279–82
Ivask, George, Russian
Review 14 no. 4 (October 1955), 379–81
Niebuhr, Reinhold, New
Leader, 22 March 1954, 24
Schlesinger, Arthur,
‘Many Things v. One Big Thing’, Encounter, November 1953, 77–9
2nd. ed. of HF, ed. Henry Hardy, foreword by Michael Ignatieff
(Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press); adds an appendix containing a parody
by John Bowle (‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’), a review by A. J. P. Taylor,
(extracts from) letters (276), extracts from interviews with Michael Ignatieff,
and other material
44a ‘Nineteen Fifty:
A Survey of Politico-Cultural Trends of the Year’, in 1951 Britannica Book
of the Year (Chicago/Toronto/London, 1951: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.),
xxii–xxvii
45 ‘On Translating
Turgenev’, review of I. S. Turgenev, Smoke, On the Eve, Virgin
Soil, Fathers and Children and A House of Gentle Folk, trans.
Constance Garnett, Observer, 11 November1951, 7
45b Review of
Benoît-P. Hepner, Bakounine et le panslavisme révolutionnaire, Slavonic
Review 30 (1951–2), 280–5
45c ‘This Modern
Age’, review of Hans Kohn, The Twentieth Century, Jewish Chronicle,
10 August 1951, 10
1952
46 (under pseudonym
‘O. Utis’) ‘Generalissimo Stalin and the Art of Government’, Foreign Affairs
30 (1952), 197–214; repr. as ‘The Artificial Dialectic: Generalissimo
Stalin and the Art of Government’ in SM; trans. German, Russian, Swedish
46a ‘Lament for
Lipatti’, House and Garden 7 No 3 (March 1952), 91, 98
46b ‘Nineteen
Fifty-One: A Survey of Cultural Trends of the Year’, in Britannica Book of
the Year 1952 (Chicago/Toronto/London, 1952: Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Inc.), xxii–xxxi
47 Review of
Benedetto Croce, My Philosophy, Mind 61 (1952), 574–8
48 Review of Morton
White, Social Thought in America, Mind 61 (1952), 405–9
49 ‘Dr Chaim
Weizmann’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 17 November 1952, 8
50 ‘The Fate of
Liberty’ (letter), The Times, 16 December 1952, 9; repr. at L2 343–4
50a Contribution to
‘Books of the Year’, Sunday Times, 21 December 1952, 6
1953
51 ‘Henderson at
Oxford: 1. All Souls’, in T. Wilson (ed.), ‘Sir Hubert Henderson, 1890–1952’,
supplement to Oxford Economic Papers 5 (1953), 55–8; repr. as ‘Hubert
Henderson at All Souls’ in PI
52
‘Israel: A Survey’, in The State of Israel (London, 1953: Anglo-Israel
Association), 42–55; repr. as ‘The Face of Israel’, Jewish Frontier 21
no. 5 (May 1954), 22–30, in Israel: Some Aspects of the New State
(London, 1955: Anglo-Israel Association) and as ‘The Origins of Israel’ in
Walter Z. Laqueur (ed.), The Middle East in Transition (London, 1958:
Routledge and Kegan Paul), and POI; trans. French, German
53 (unattributed)
‘Thinkers or Philosophers?’, review of N. O. Lossky, History of Russian
Philosophy, The Times Literary Supplement, 27 March 1953, 197–8
53a Review of Ernst
Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, trans. F. C. A. Koelnn
and J. P. Pettegrove, English Historical Review 68 (1953), 617–19
53c Contribution to
‘Books of the Year’, Sunday Times, 20 December 1953, 6, on Virginia
Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
53d ‘Madame
Akhmatova’ (letter), New Republic, 14 September 1953, 22–3 (reply to
article by Michael Straight)
1954
54 Historical Inevitability [delivered under the title ‘History
as an Alibi’], Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture no. 1 (London, 1954: Oxford
University Press), 76 pp. (‘a cavalry charge of the intellect – vast, exciting,
glitteringly colourful and somewhat disorganised’: [Anthony Quinton,] The
Times Literary Supplement, 21 December 1956, 769; ‘a dazzling display of
intellectual fireworks’: [E. H. Carr,] The Times Literary Supplement, 7
March 1975, 246); repr. in Auguste Comte Memorial Lectures 1953–1962
(London, 1964: Athlone Press), FEL and L, Patrick Gardiner (ed.),
The Philosophy of History (London, 1974: Oxford University Press), and
PSM; excerpted in Hans Meyerhoff (ed.), The Philosophy of History in Our
Time: An Anthology (New York, 1959: Doubleday); trans. Italian, Japanese,
Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Reviews
anon., Plain View
9 no. 4 (February 1955), 263
[Carr, E. H.,]
‘History and Morals’ (leading article), The Times Literary Supplement,
17 December 1954; review of Historical Inevitability
Dawson, Christopher,
Harvard Law Review 70 (1956–7), 584–8
Deutscher, Isaac,
‘Determinists All’, Observer, 16 January, 1955, 8
Fairlie, Henry, ‘Mr
Berlin’s Anti-Determinism’, Spectator, 14 January 1955, 48
Kristol,
Irving, ‘The Judgement of Clio’, Encounter, January 1955, 67–9
Niebuhr,
Reinhold, New Leader, 21 November 1955, 23
Rickman, H. P., ‘The
Horizons of History’ (also reviews two works by other authors), Hibbert
Journal 56 (October 1957 to July 1958), January 1958, 167–76
Stewart, J. B., Political
Science Quarterly 71 (1956), 291–2
54a ‘Men Who Lead’
(on Chaim Weizmann), Jerusalem Post, 2 November 1954, 5, 6; repr. as ‘The
Anatomy of Leadership’ in Jewish Frontier 21 no. 12 (December 1954),
13–17, and as ‘Chaim Weizmann’s Leadership’ in POI
55 ‘Realism in
Politics’, Spectator 193 (1954), 774–6; repr. in SR
55a ‘Calling America
to Greatness’, review of Adlai Stevenson, Call to Greatness, Sunday
Times, 5 December 1954, 6
55b(ed. with Stuart
Hampshire and Richard Wollheim) The Library of Ideas, a ‘new and useful series
of the less familiar masterpieces of social and political thought’ ([E. H.
Carr], The Times Literary Supplement, 28 January 1955, 57) (London,
1954–6: Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
1955
56 ‘Herzen and
Bakunin on Individual Liberty’, in Ernest J. Simmons (ed.), Continuity and
Change in Russian and Soviet Thought (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955:
Harvard University Press), 473–99 (‘the best written … article in the book’:
[E. H. Carr,] The Times Literary Supplement, 20 April 1956, 229); repr.
in RT; trans. Russian
57 ‘A Marvellous
Decade: Literature and Social Criticism in Russia, 1838–48’, Northcliffe Lectures
for 1954; repr. as ‘A Remarkable Decade’ in RT; trans. Italian, Russian
I ‘1838–48: The
Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia’, Encounter 4 no. 6 (June 1955),
27–39; trans. Russian
II ‘1838–48: German
Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow’, Encounter 5 no. 11 (November
1955), 21–9
III ‘Belinsky:
Moralist and Prophet’, Encounter 5 No 12 (December 1955), 22–43
IV ‘Herzen and the
Grand Inquisitors’, Encounter 6 No 5 (May 1956), 20–34; repr. as
‘Alexander Herzen’ in Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol
and Melvin J. Lasky (eds), Encounters: An Anthology from the First Ten Years
of Encounter Magazine (New York, 1965: Simon and Schuster), and as
introduction to Alexander Herzen, Childhood, Youth and Exile, trans. J.
D. Duff (Oxford, 1980: Oxford University Press); excerpted in John Gross (ed.),
The New Oxford Book of English Prose (Oxford, 1998: Oxford University
Press); trans. French, Japanese, Russian
58 ‘Montesquieu’, Proceedings
of the British Academy 41 (1955), 267–96; repr. in AC; trans. Estonian
59 (with Anthony
Quinton, Stuart Hampshire and Iris Murdoch) ‘Philosophy and Beliefs’, Twentieth
Century 157 (1955), 495–521 (‘a good working example, for the outsider, of
what “academic virtue” – as a free collaboration of minds towards the
clarification of important uncertainties – means in practice’: [G. S. Fraser,] The
Times Literary Supplement, 10 June 1955, 317)
60 ‘Roosevelt
through European Eyes’, Atlantic Monthly 196 no. 1 (July1955), 67–71; as
‘President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’, Political Quarterly 26 (1955),
336–44 (repr. under this title in PI and PSM); repr. as ‘The Natural’ in Robert
Vare with Daniel B. Smith (ed.), The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic
Monthly: 150 Years of Writers and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History (New York
etc., 2007: Doubleday), 229–37
61 ‘The Furious
Vissarion’, review of Herbert E. Bowman, Vissarion Belinski, New
Statesman and Nation 50 (July-December 1955), 447–8; repr. in New Leader
(U. S. A.), 16 January 1956, 21–2
61a ‘Words of
Wisdom’, review of The Table Talk of a Modern Sage: Dialogues of Alfred
North Whitehead, OM, as recorded by Lucien Price, Jewish Chronicle,
18 February 1955, 18
61b ‘Marx as
Historian’ (letter), New Statesman and Nation 50 (July–December 1955),
366; repr. at L2 499–500
61c (with Rose
Macaulay, Raymond Mortimer and Harold Nicolson), ‘Last Asquithian’ (letter), New
Statesman and Nation 49 (January–June 1955), 8 January, 45; written in
response to an article of that title on Violet Bonham Carter, ibid. 48
(July–December 1954), 11 December, 781
1956
62 (ed. with
introduction and commentary) The Age of Enlightenment: The
Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (Boston, 1956: Houghton Mifflin; New York,
1956: New American Library; Oxford, 1979: Oxford University Press);
introduction excerpted in Jack Lively (ed.), The Enlightenment (London,
1966: Longmans), and repr. as ‘The Philosophers of the Enlightenment’ in POI;
trans. Chinese
Review
Thayer, H. S. (also
reviews Stuart Hampshire (ed.), The Age of Reason: The 17th Century
Philosophers), Journal of Philosophy 55 no. 21 (October 1958),
913–16
63 Introduction to
Alexander Herzen, From the Other Shore and The Russian People and Socialism (London,
1956: Weidenfeld and Nicolson [part of 55b]; Oxford, 1979: Oxford University
Press), vii–xxiii/xxv; repr. with postscript as ‘“A Revolutionary Without
Fanaticism”’, New York Review of Books, 19 April 1979, 16–21, and (with
further revisions) in POI; trans. Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Russian
64 ‘Equality’, Proceedings
of the Aristotelian Society 56 (1955–6), 301–26; repr. as ‘Equality as an
Ideal’ in Frederick A. Olafson (ed.), Justice and Social Policy: A
Collection of Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1961: Prentice-Hall), the
Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Political Science, no. 68812, and CC
65 ‘The Father of
Russian Marxism’ (Plekhanov), Listener 56 (1956), 1063–4, 1077; repr. in
New Leader (USA), 4 February 1957, 14–17 (as ‘Father of Russian
Socialism’), and POI; trans. French, Russian
65a ‘Portrait of a
Nineteenth-Century Prophet’, review of George Woodcock, Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon, Sunday Times, 21 October 1956, 8
1957
66 ‘An Episode in
the Life of Ivan Turgenev’, London Magazine 4 no. 7 (July 1957), 14–24
(includes translation of Turgenev’s ‘A Fire at Sea’); reissued with 39 as First
Love [and] A Fire at Sea (London, 1982: Hogarth Press; New York, 1983:
Viking)
67 ‘The Silence in
Russian Culture’, Foreign Affairs 36 (1957), 1–24; repr. in Hamilton
Fish Armstrong (ed.), Fifty Years of Foreign Affairs (New York, 1973:
Praeger for the Council on Foreign Relations; London, 1973: Pall Mall), and
James F. Hoge, Jr, and Fareed Zakaria (eds), The American Encounter: The
United States and the Making of the Modern World, Essays from 75 Years of
‘Foreign Affairs’ (New York, 1997: Basic Books); repr. with 68 as ‘Soviet
Russian Culture’ in SM; trans. Russian
68 (under pseudonym
‘L. ’) ‘The Soviet Intelligentsia’, Foreign Affairs 36 (1957), 122–30;
repr. with 67 as ‘Soviet Russian Culture’ in SM; trans. German, Russian
68a (with Edgar
Lustgarten and Lords Hailsham and Russell) ‘London Forum’ (discussion of ‘The
Role of Great Men in History’), London Calling, 31 January 1957, 3–4, 10
69 (with Miriam
Rothschild) ‘Mr James de Rothschild: “ Grand Seigneur” ’ (supplementary
obituary), The Times, 13 May 1957, 15
69a (with others)
‘Budapest Sentences’ (letter), Manchester Guardian, 25 June 1957, 6
69b (with others)
‘Murder in Budapest’ (letter), Daily Telegraph, 25 June 1957, 8
1958
70 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); and in PI; 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
Review
Halpern, Ben, ‘An
Authentic Leader’, Commentary 27 (1959), 445–7; sceptical
71 Two Concepts
of Liberty, Inaugural Lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political
Theory (Oxford, 1958: Clarendon Press), 55 pp.; repr. in FEL, PSM and L, in
Preston King (ed.), The Study of Politics: A Collection of Inaugural
Lectures (London, 1977: Frank Cass) and Philip Pettit and Robert E. Goodin
(eds), Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology (Oxford, 1998:
Blackwell), and 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), and
Matt Zwolinski (ed.), Arguing about Political Philosophy (New York and
London, 2009: Routledge); ed. with notes by Kimiyoshi Yura (Kyoto, 1967:
Apollon-sha); trans. Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Georgian,
Greek, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian (in
part), Spanish, Ukrainian
Reviews
Macdonald, Dwight,
‘On the Rightness of Mr Berlin’, Encounter, April 1959, 79–85
Sen Amartya,
‘Determinism and Historical Predictions’, Enquiry (Delhi) 2 (1959), 99–115,
at 113–14
[Wollheim, Richard],
‘A Hundred Years After’, The Times Literary Supplement, 20 February
1959, 89–90
72 ‘Richard Pares’, Balliol
College Record 1958, 32–4; repr. in PI
72a Contribution
(principally on Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago) to ‘Books of the Year:
I’, Sunday Times, 21 December 1958, 6
72b (with others)
‘Homosexual Acts: Call to Reform Law’ (letter), The Times, 7 March 1958,
11
72c (not directly
attributed) ‘Elysian
Schools’, Oxford Magazine, 20 February
1958, 298–9; repr. in BI
1959
73 European Unity
and Its Vicissitudes (Amsterdam, 1959: Fondation Européenne de la Culture),
31 pp.; repr. in CTH; trans. Arabic, Estonian, French, Lithuanian, Russian,
Spanish
74 John
Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life, Robert Waley Cohen Memorial Lecture
(London, 1959: Council of Christians and Jews), 32 pp.; repr. in FEL and
L, 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), and in part as
‘Introductory Essay’ in John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and Considerations
on Representative Government (London, 2008: Folio Society), ix–xxv; trans.
Japanese
75 The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess, Lucien Wolf Memorial
Lecture (Cambridge, 1959: Heffer), 49 pp. (‘scintillating and deeply felt […]
equally illuminating for the history of Communism and the history of Zionism’:
[Norman Bentwich,] The Times Literary Supplement, 18 December 1959,
743); digest in Jewish Chronicle, 13 December 1957, 19; repr. in Philip
Rieff (ed.), On Intellectuals (New York, 1969: Doubleday), Ezra
Mendelsohn (ed.), Essential Papers on Jews and the Left (New York and
London, 1997: New York University Press), and AC; trans. Estonian, French,
Russian
Reviews
Essig, S. B., Revue
de l’Institut de Sociologie 34 no. 3 (January 1961), 591
Joll, James, ‘The
Communist Rabbi’, Spectator, 27 November 1959, 776
75a ‘An Oxford
Manifesto’ (letters), New Statesman 58 (July-December 1959), 511 (repr.
at L2 703–4), 582
75b (with others)
‘Lolita’ (letter), The Times, 23 January 1959, 11
75c Letter (on Moses
Hess), Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, 18 December 1959, 17
1960
76 Introduction to
Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution (London, 1960: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson; New York, 1966: Grosset and Dunlap), vii–xxx (‘The concluding
paragraphs […] are nothing if not controversial; and Sir Isaiah’s favourite
Aunt Sallies – notably, the inevitability of history in general and of the
Russian Revolution in particular – come in for a good bashing’: [E. H. Carr,] The
Times Literary Supplement, 12 August 1960, 507); repr. as ‘Russian
Populism’ in Encounter 15 No1 (July 1960), 13–28, and RT; trans. Russian
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), and as ‘The Concept of Scientific History’ in William H. Dray (ed.), Philosophical
Analysis and History (New York, 1966: Harper and Row), CC and PSM;
trans. German (in part), Japanese, Russian, Spanish
78 ‘Marx’, in J. O.
Urmson (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers (London,
1960: Hutchinson; 2nd ed. 1975), 176–81; repr. in POI; trans. Spanish
79 ‘The
Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico’, in Art and Ideas in
Eighteenth-Century Italy (Rome, 1960: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura),
156–233; repr. in revised form in VH and TCE; trans. Hebrew; see also 99
79a ‘No Earthly
Paradise’, review of Reinhold Niebuhr, Nations and Empires, Guardian,
25 November 1960, 7
79b Review
of Richard Hare, Portraits of Russian Personalities between Reform and
Revolution, English Historical Review 75
(1960), 500–2
80 Review of Henry
Vyverberg, Historical Pessimism in the French Enlightenment, French
Studies 14 (1960), 167–70
80a (with others)
‘S.A. Boycott’ (letter), Isis, 11 May 1960, 19
1961
81 ‘La théorie
politique existe-t-elle?’, Revue française de science politique 11
(1961), 309–37; repr. in English as ‘Does Political Theory Still Exist?’ in
Peter Laslett and W. G. Runciman (eds), Philosophy, Politics and Society,
2nd Series (Oxford, 1962: Blackwell) (‘His answer is extremely nuancé
but definitely hopeful’: [A. H. Hanson,] The Times Literary Supplement,
3 May 1963, 318), CC and PSM; trans. Estonian, Japanese, Spanish
Review
*Oakeshott,
M[ichael], review of Laslett and Runciman, Philosophical Quarterly 15
no. 60 (July 1965), 281–2; his remarks on IB (Oakeshott’s only published
comments on his work?) are on 282
81a (unattributed)
‘Research Institutions’, chapter 9 of Research in the Humanities and the
Social Sciences: Report of a Survey by the British Academy 1958–1960
(London, 1961: Oxford University Press)
82 ‘Tolstoy and Enlightenment’, Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture for 1960, Encounter
16 no. 2 (February 1961), 29–40; letter, The Times Literary Supplement,
2 December 1960, 779; lecture repr. in Mightier Than The Sword (London,
1964: Macmillan), Ralph E. Matlaw (ed.), Tolstoy: A Collection of Critical
Essays (Englewood Cliffs, [1967]: Prentice-Hall), and RT; trans. Russian,
Spanish
82a Review of Elie
Kedourie, Nationalism, Oxford Magazine, New Series 1 (1960–1),
147–8
83 ‘What is
History?’ (an exchange of letters with E. H. Carr), Listener 65 (1961),
877, 1048–9; repr. at L2 41–2, 48–50
83a (with others)
telegram dated 14 March 1961 to Ferenc Münnich, Chairman of the Council of
Ministers, Budapest, urging the release of István Bibó, in ‘Release of
Hungarian Professor Urged’, The Times, 17 March 1961, 7f; repr. – with
different wording, probably because back-translated from Tibor Huszár (ed.), István
Bibó (1911–1979): Életút dokumentumokban [A Life in Documents]
(Budapest, 1995: 1956-os Intézet-Osiris-századvég), 543 – in Iván Zoltán Dénes,
‘Personal Liberty and Political Freedom: Four Interpretations’, European
Journal of Political Theory 7 no. 1 (January 2008), 81–98 at 93
(signatories listed at 97); trans. Hungarian; cf. 87a
1962
84 ‘The Biographical
Facts’, in Meyer W. Weisgal and Joel Carmichael (eds), Chaim Weizmann: A
Biography by Several Hands (London, 1962: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New
York, 1963: Atheneum), 17–56 (‘a brilliant survey’: [Norman Bentwich,] The
Times Literary Supplement, 21 December 1962, 983); repr. in Dan Leon and
Yehuda Adin (eds), Chaim Weizmann, Statesman of the Jewish Renaissance (Jerusalem,
1974: The Zionist Library); trans. French, Hebrew, Spanish
85 ‘The Purpose of
Philosophy’, Insight (Nigeria) 1 no. 1 (July 1962), 12–15; repr. in the Sunday
Times, 4 November 1962, 23, 26, in Viewpoint no. 6 (1963 no. 2),
29–31, as ‘Philosophy’s Goal’ in Leonard Russell (ed.), Encore, 2nd Year
(London, 1963: Michael Joseph) (as ‘Philosophy’s Goal’), in CC and in POI;
excerpted as ‘A “ Dangerous but Important Activity” ’ in University: A
Princeton Quarterly no. 28 (Spring 1966), 1 (repr. in Van Cleve Morris [
(ed.)], Modern Movements in Educational Philosophy (Boston, [1969]:
Houghton Mifflin), 9–11); trans. Estonian, Lithuanian, Russian
86 ‘Mr Carr’s Big
Battalions’, review of E. H. Carr, What is History?, New Statesman 63
(January–June 1962), 5 January 1962, 15–16
87 (unattributed)
‘The Road to Catastrophe’, review of Hans Kohn, The Mind of Germany, and
G. P. Gooch, French Profiles: Prophets and Pioneers, The Times
Literary Supplement, 30 March 1962, 216; letter, 20 April 1962, 265
87a (with others)
telegram dated 22 February 1962 to János Kádár, Chairman of the Council of
Ministers, Budapest, urging the release of István Bibó, in ‘Dr Bibo’s Release
Again Urged’, The Times, 6 March 1962, 15c; repr. in Iván Zoltán Dénes,
‘Personal Liberty and Political Freedom: Four Interpretations’, European
Journal of Political Theory 7 no. 1 (January 2008), 81–98 at 94
(signatories listed at 97); trans. Hungarian; cf. 83a
87b endorsement of
Raphael R. Abramovich, The Soviet Revolution, 1917–1939 (London, 1962:
Allen & Unwin; New York, 1962: International Universities Press), cited in
a publisher’s advertisement for the book, ALA Bulletin 56 no. 4 (April
1962), 286, and elsewhere:
The Russian
Revolution and its consequences dominate our lives. Nevertheless, the evidence
available to Western historians on which an objective account of it can be
based is still not extensive. The appearance of a study of it by Mr Raphael
Abramovitch, an eyewiteness of and a participant in many of the events that he
describes, and a man of scrupulous integrity, constitutes an original source of
primary importance and permanent value.
1963
88 Contribution to Clara
Urquhart (ed.), A Matter of Life (London, 1963: Cape), 39–40; on civil
disobedience
89 ‘Historical
Note’, in Khovanshchina (opera programme) ([London], 1963: Royal Opera
House Covent Garden Ltd), 5 pp.; repr. in the 1972 programme as ‘Programme Note:
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)’, as ‘Khovanshchina’ in the 1982 programme and San
Francisco Opera, Fall Season 1984, 34–8, and with revisions as ‘A Note on “
Khovanshchina” ’, New York Review of Books, 19 December 1985, 40–2;
excerpted as ‘Stasov, Mussorgsky and Khovanshchina’ in The Kirov Opera
(opera programme) ([London], 2005: Royal Opera House), 24
90 ‘Why are these
books neglected?’, Twentieth Century 172 no. 1019 (Autumn 1963), 139–47
90a (with others)
‘Dr Ranger’s Expulsion’, The Times, 11 February 1963, 11
1964
91 Contribution to Meyer
W. Weisgal (New York, 1964), [22]; repr. in Edward Victor (ed.), Meyer
Weisgal at Seventy (London, 1966: Weidenfeld and Nicolson) (as ‘A Generous
Imaginative Idealist’), and in The Odyssey of an Optimist: Meyer W. Weisgal,
An Anthology by His Contemporaries (New York, 1967: Atheneum)
92 ‘Felix
Frankfurter at Oxford’, in Wallace Mendelson (ed.), Felix Frankfurter: A
Tribute (New York, 1964: Reynal), 22–31; repr. in Quest 1 (1965),
20–2, and PI
93 ‘From Hope and
Fear Set Free’, Presidential Address, Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society 64 (1963–4), 1–30; repr. in CC, PSM and L; trans. Estonian
94 ‘Hobbes, Locke
and Professor Macpherson’, review of C. B. Macpherson, The Political Theory
of Possessive Individualism, Hobbes to Locke, Political Quarterly 35
(1964), 444–68
94a ‘A Note on
Nationalism’, Forethought (Windsor, [1964]: Eton College), 9–14; repr.
in POI2
95 ‘Portrait of
Ben-Gurion’, review of Maurice Edelman, Ben-Gurion: A Political Biography,
Jewish Chronicle, 25 December 1964, 7, 22
95a ‘Rationality of
Value Judgments’, Nomos 7 [Carl J. Friedrich (ed.), Rational Decision
(New York, 1964: Atherton Press; London, 1964: Prentice-Hall International)],
221–3; repr. as ‘The Rationality of Value Judgements’ in CC2
95b (in paraphrase) Contributions
to John Keep and Liliana Brisby (eds), Contemporary History in the Soviet
Mirror (London, 1964: George Allen and Unwin), 40–1, 89, 220, 330
95c ‘Olga Ivinskaya’
(letter), Observer, 15 March 1964, 11
95d Contribution to
‘The Death of Lord Marks’, Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, 11
December 1964, 37
1965
96 Contribution to
Julian Huxley (ed.), Aldous Huxley (London, 1965: Chatto and Windus),
144–53; repr. as ‘Aldous Huxley’ in PI
97 Contribution to
Ian Kemp (ed.), Michael Tippett: A Symposium on his 60th Birthday (London,
1965: Faber), 62–3
98 ‘Herder and the
Enlightenment’, in Earl R. Wasserman (ed.), Aspects of the Eighteenth
Century (Baltimore, 1965: Johns Hopkins Press), 47–104 (‘the most
interesting and valuable essay in [the] collection […] we must be grateful that
Sir Isaiah’s lucid exposition and gift for suggestive comparisons make Herder’s
thought seem so attractive and exciting’, The Times Literary Supplement,
24 November 1966, 1101; ‘an overpowering virtuoso performance’: [Walter
Kaufman,] The Times Literary Supplement, 2 January 1976, 14); repr. as
‘J. G. Herder’, Encounter 25 no. 1 (July 1965), 29–48, no. 2 (August
1965), 42–51; repr. in revised form in VH, PSM and TCE; trans. Spanish
98a (with H. L. A.
Hart) ‘Postgraduate Studies in Oxford’, in University of Oxford, Commission
of Inquiry [‘The Franks Commission’]: Evidence, part 11, Individuals
(Oxford, 1965: Oxford University Press), 12–16
99 ‘Sulla teoria del
Vico circa la conoscenza storica’ (a much expanded version of ‘Appendix: On
Vico’s Epistemology’ in 79), Lettere italiane 17 (1965), 420–31; repr.
as ‘Appendice sulla teoria del Vico circa la conoscenza storica’ in Vittore
Branca (ed.), Sensibilità e razionalità nel settecento (Florence, 1967:
Sansoni); repr. in revised form as ‘Vico’s Theory of Knowledge and its Sources’
in VH and TCE
100 Review of C. P.
Courtney, Montesquieu and Burke, Modern Language Review 60
(1965), 449–52
101 ‘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 SM
101a ‘The Thought of
de Tocqueville’, review of Jack Lively, The Social and Political Thought of
Alexis de Tocqueville, History 50 (1965), 199–206
1966
102 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 POI
103 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 POI; trans. Japanese, Spanish
104 ‘L. B. Namier: A
Personal Impression’, in Martin Gilbert (ed.), A Century of Conflict,
1850–1950: Essays for A. J. P. Taylor (London, 1966: Hamish Hamilton);
repr. in Encounter 27 no. 5 (November 1966), 32–42 (letter, 28 no. 1
(January 1967), 92), Journal of Historical Studies 1 (1967–8), 117–36,
and PI
104a (with Mary
McCarthy and others) ‘The Founders’ (letter), Time, 16 September 1966,
10
105 ‘The Great Blood
Libel Case’, review of Maurice Samuel, Blood Accusation: The Strange History
of the Beiliss Case, Jewish Chronicle Literary Supplement, 23 December
1966, 3–4; repr. as ‘The Beiliss Case: Prelude to Revolution’ in Midstream 13
No2 (February 1967), 66–72
106 ‘New Ways in
History’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 21 April 1966, 347;
repr. at L3 275–7
106a Endorsement of
Walter Kaufmann, Hegel: Reinterpretation, Texts and Commentary, on
jacket of UK edition (London, 1966: Weidenfeld and Nicolson) and on US
paperback edition, Hegel: A Reinterpretation (New York, 1966: Anchor
Books); repr. on Walter Kaufmann, Discovering the Mind (New York, 1980:
McGraw-Hill), vol. 1, Goethe, Kant and Hegel
1967
106b Foreword to G.
L. Seidler, The Emergence of the Eastern World: Seven Essays on Political
Ideas (Oxford etc., 1968: Pergamon), ix
107 Contribution to
Cecil Woolf and John Bagguley (eds), Authors take Sides on Vietnam (New
York, 1967: Simon and Schuster), 20–1; repr. as ‘Taking Sides on Vietnam’ at L3
601–2
107a (with others)
‘Issues Behind the Oxford Fund’, (letter), The Times, 7 July 1967, 9
107b (with others)
‘Victor Gollancz’ (letter), The Times, 1 August 1967, 9
1968
108 Introduction to
Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen,
trans. Constance Garnett (London, 1968: Chatto and Windus; New York, 1968:
Knopf; ed. and abridged by Dwight Macdonald, New York, 1973: Knopf; London,
1974: Chatto and Windus; Berkeley, 1982: University of California Press), 25
pp.; repr. as ‘The Great Amateur’, New York Review of Books, 14 March
1968, 9–18 (see also 111c below), as ‘Herzen and his Memoirs’ in AC, in Robert B.
Silvers, Barbara Epstein and Rea S. Hederman (eds), The First Anthology: 30
Years of The New York Review of Books (New York, 1993: New York Review of
Books), and in PSM; trans. German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
108a ‘A Great
Benefactor’ [Isaac Wolfson], Rehovot, Summer 1968, 18–21
109 Comment on
Richard Pipes, ‘The Origins of Bolshevism: The Intellectual Evolution of Young
Lenin’, in Richard Pipes (ed.), Revolutionary Russia (Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1968: Harvard University Press), 52–9
110 ‘The “ Naïveté ” of Verdi’, Hudson Review 21 (1968),
138–47; repr. from Atti del I congresso internazionale di studi verdiani,
1966 (Parma, 1969: Istituto di Studi Verdiani), 27–35; repr. in About
The House 3 no. 1 (March 1969), 8–13, New Republic, 6 October 1979,
30–4, Ernani (opera programme) ([Cardiff, 1979]: Welsh National Opera)
(abridged), William Weaver and Martin Chusid (eds), The Verdi Companion (London,
1980: Gollancz), Opera 31 (1980), 128–35, and AC; trans. French, German,
Japanese
111 ‘The Role of the
Intelligentsia’, Listener 79 (1968), 563–5; repr. in Derwent May (ed.), Good
Talk2: An Anthology from BBC Radio (London, 1969: Gollancz), and POI
111a Contribution to
‘Books of the Year: A Personal Choice’, Observer, 22 December 1968, 17
111b Contributions
to an LSE conference (19–21 May 1967) published as ‘To Define Populism’, Government
and Opposition 3 no. 2 (1968), 137–79 at 140, 173–8; a complete transcript
of the proceedings of the conference, including more
material by IB, is in the library of the LSE under
the title ‘London School of Economics Conference on Populism, May 20–21, 1967:
Verbatim report’, shelfmark HN 17 C74
111c (with Martin A.
Miller) Herzen’s
Circle, New York Review of Books, 20
June 1968 (see also 108 above)
1969
112 Four Essays on Liberty (revised reprints of 37, 54, 71, 74,
with a new introduction) (London and New York, 1969: Oxford University Press);
trans. Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,
Russian, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
Reviews
Bayón, J., Revista
de Occidente, February 1970, 240
Blair, J. A., Dialogue:
Canadian Philosophical Review 9 no. 2 (September 1970), 266–8
Howe,
Irving, review essay, Harper’s, August 1970, 93–8
Powell, Enoch,
‘Concepts of Liberty’ (also reviews Edward Goodman, A Study of Liberty and
Revolution), Books and Bookmen 20 no. 8 (May 1975), 23–4; solves
problem of free will in 3 sentences
Wischke, Mirko,
review of Ramin Jahanbegloo, Den Ideen die Stimme wiedergeben: Eine
intellektuelle Biographie in Gesprächen; Freiheit: Vier Versuche;
and Der Magus des Nordens: J. G. Hamann und der Ursprung des modernen
Irrationalismus (German translations of CIB, FEL and MN), Philosophischer
Literaturanzeiger 51 no. 2 (April 1998), 141–5
113 Foreword to
Michael Yudkin (ed.), General Education: A Symposium on the Teaching of
Non-Specialists (Harmondsworth, 1969: Allen Lane/Penguin), 9–20; repr. as
‘General Education’ in Oxford Review of Education 1 (1975), 287–92, and
POI; trans. Japanese
113a ‘The Hazards of
Social Revolution’, in Aaron W. Warner, Dean Morse and Thomas E. Cooney (eds), The
Environment of Change (New York and London, 1969: Columbia University
Press), 1–27; described as a ‘summary of remarks’, this reads like IB proper
114 ‘A Note on
Vico’s Concept of Knowledge’, in Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Hayden V. White (eds),
Giambattista Vico: An International Symposium (Baltimore, [1969]: Johns
Hopkins Press), 371–7; repr. in New York Review of Books, 24 April 1969,
23–6, and AC trans. Spanish
Review
*Noether, Amiliana
P., review of Tagliacozzo and White, American Historical Review 76 no. 2
(April 1971), 476–9
115 ‘One of the
Boldest Innovators in the History of Human Thought’ (Vico), New York Times
Magazine, 23 November 1969, 76–100; repr. in Ben Seligman (ed.), Molders
of Modern Thought (Chicago, 1970: Quadrangle Books), and POI; trans.
Spanish
116 ‘Reply to
Orsini’, Journal of the History of Ideas 30 (1969), 91–5 (abstract in
the Philosopher’s Index 3 (1969), 282): a reply to G. N. G.
Orsini, ‘Feuerbach’s Supposed Objection to Hegel’, ibid., 85–90
1970
117 Foreword to R.
D. Miller, Schiller and the Ideal of Freedom: A Study of Schiller’s
Philosophical Works with Chapters on Kant (Oxford, 1970: Clarendon Press),
v
118
‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, and the Search for Identity’, in Transactions
of the Jewish Historical Society of England 22 (1968–9) (London, 1970:
Jewish Historical Society of England); repr. in Midstream 16 no. 7
(August-September 1970), 29–49, and AC; trans. French, Hungarian, Lithuanian,
Spanish
119 ‘Weizmann as Exilarch’, in Chaim Weizmann as Leader (Jerusalem,
1970: Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 13–21; trans. Hebrew
Review
Reinharz, Jehuda,
review of Chaim Weizmann as Leader, American Jewish Historical
Quarterly 60 no. 1 (September 1970), 110–13
1971
120 Sir Maurice
Bowra, 1898–1971 (Oxford, [1971]: Wadham College), 10 pp.; repr. as ‘Memorial
Address in St Mary’s’ in Hugh Lloyd-Jones (ed.), Maurice Bowra (London,
1974: Duckworth), and as ‘Maurice Bowra’ in PI
121 ‘Georges Sorel’,
Creighton Lecture, The Times Literary Supplement, 31 December 1971,
1617–22; repr. in expanded form in Chimen Abramsky (ed.), Essays in Honour
of E. H. Carr (London, 1974: Macmillan), 3–35, and AC; trans. Hebrew,
Spanish; see also 132
122 ‘The Question of Machiavelli’, New York Review of Books, 4
November 1971, 20–32; repr. of part of ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’, in
Myron P. Gilmore (ed.), Studies on Machiavelli (Florence, 1972:
Sansoni), 149–206; repr. in the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Political
Science, No 68813, and as Appendix II in Niccolò Machiavelli’s The
Prince on The Art of Power (London, 2007: Duncan Baird Publishing),
222–61; full version repr. in John Dunn and Ian Harris (eds), Machiavelli
(Cheltenham and Lyme, 1997: Edward Elgar), vol. 2, AC and PSM and
trans. Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian
123 ‘Randolph’, in
Kay Halle (ed.), Randolph Churchill: The Young Unpretender (London,
1971: Heinemann), 278–9
124 ‘Tchaikovsky and
Eugene Onegin’, Glyndebourne Festival Programme Book 1971, 58–63; repr.
as ‘Tchaikovsky, Pushkin and Onegin’ in Musical Times 121 (1980), 163–8,
and Eugene Onegin (Oxford University Opera Club programme) ([Oxford],
1992)
124a (with others)
‘George Seferis’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 16 December 1971,
42
124b ‘Sir Isaiah
Berlin OM replies to a letter from the Editor’, Jewish Chronicle, 12
November 1971, 35
1972
125 Fathers
and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament, Romanes Lecture
(Oxford, 1972: Clarendon Press; repr. with corrections 1973), 61 pp.; repr. in New
York Review of Books, 18 October 1973, 39–44, 1 November 1973, 22–9, 15
November 1973, 9–11, as introduction to Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons,
trans. Rosemary Edmonds (Harmondsworth, 1975: Penguin), and in RT; excerpted as
‘The Liberal Predicament’ in Dialogue 11 no. 4 (1978), 90–5; trans.
Japanese, Russian; see also 138
Reviews
[Freeborn, Richard,]
‘The Liberal Dilemma’, The Times Literary Supplement, 22 December 1972,
1553
Kelly, A. M.,
’ “Fathers and Children” ’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement,
26 January 1973, 94 (followed by a reply from Freeborn)
Walker, Angus, Modern
Language Review, 477–8
126 Zionist
Politics in Wartime Washington: A Fragment of Personal Reminiscence, Yaacov
Herzog Memorial Lecture (Jerusalem, 1972: Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 61
pp.; excerpted in Barnet Litvinoff (ed.), The Essential Chaim Weizmann: The
Man, the Statesman, the Scientist (London, 1982: Wei Nicolson); originally
to have been reprinted in PI, but IB changed his mind; repr. in L1; trans.
Hebrew
127 Foreword to
Friedrich Meinecke, Historism: The Rise of a New Historical Outlook,
trans. J. E. Anderson (London, 1972: Routledge and Kegan Paul), ix–xvi; repr.
as ‘Meinecke and Historicism’ in POI
128 ‘The Bent Twig:
A Note on Nationalism’, Foreign Affairs 51 (1972), 11–30; repr. in James
F. Hoge, Jr, and Fareed Zakaria (eds), The American Encounter: The United
States and the Making of the Modern World, Essays from 75 Years of ‘Foreign
Affairs’ (New York, 1997: Basic Books), and CTH; trans. Arabic, French,
German, Hungarian, Spanish
129 ‘Dr Jacob
Herzog’, Jewish Chronicle, 14 April 1972, 28, 43; repr. as ‘Yaacov Herzog:
a Tribute’ as preface to 126 and in Misha Louvish (ed.), A People that
Dwells Alone: Speeches and Writings of Yaacov Herzog (London, 1995:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson); trans. Hebrew
130 ‘Giambattista
Vico’, Listener 88 (1972), 391–8; repr. as ‘Giambattista Vico: Man of
Genius’ in TCE2; trans. Spanish
131 ‘History as we
would like it’, Worldview 15 no. 7 (July 1972), 16
131a Introductory
remarks for Roy Jenkins, British Foreign Policy since 1945 (7th
Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lecture) (Oxford, 1972: Oxford University Press
for the British Academy), 3
132 ‘Sorel’
(letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 14 January 1972, 40; cf. 121
132a (with others)
‘In Memory of Cecil Roth’ (letter), Jewish Chronicle, 1 September 1972,
21
132b (with Kenneth
Burke) ‘An Exchange on Machiavelli’ (letters), New York Review of Books,
6 April 1972, 36
132c ‘I Love
Zionism’ (letter to the editor, published in Hebrew translation), Ha’aretz,
17 November 1972, 26; response to Nathan
Yellin-Mor
1973
133 ‘Austin and the
Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy’, in Essays on J. L. Austin (Oxford,
1973: Clarendon Press), 1–16; repr. in PI; trans. German
134 ‘The Counter-Enlightenment’, Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New
York, 1968–73: Scribner’s), vol. 2 (1973), 100–12; repr. in AC and AC;
trans. Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian
135 ‘A
Nation Among Nations’, Jewish Chronicle, Colour Magazine, 4 May
1973, 28–34; excerpted as ‘Israel at 25’ in Jerusalem Post, 18 May 1973,
magazine supplement, 7
136 ‘Notes on the
Foundation of Wolfson College’, Lycidas 1 (1973), 2–4
137 ‘Mr Hamilton
Fish Armstrong’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 28 April 1973, 16
138 ‘Fathers and
Children’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 12 January 1973, 40;
cf. 125
138a Contribution to
‘Books of the Year’, Observer, 16 December 1973, 33
1974
139 The Divorce
between the Sciences and the Humanities, 2nd Tykociner Memorial Lecture
(Illinois, 1974: University of Illinois), 34 pp.; repr. in Salmagundi
no. 27 (Summer/Fall 1974), 9–39, Robert Boyers and Peggy Boyers (eds), The
Salmagundi Reader (Bloomington, 1983: Indiana University Press), CTH and
PSM; trans. Italian, Polish
139a ‘The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee’ (Dispatch no. 292, British Embassy, Washington, to
Foreign Office, London, 19 April 1943), in Thomas E. Hachey (ed.), ‘American
Profiles on Capitol Hill: A Confidential Study for the British Foreign Office
in 1943’, Wisconsin Magazine of History 57 no. 2 (Winter 1973–4),
141–53; in note 3 on p. 142 Hachey charmingly describes HF as ‘a fictional
work’
139b Probable
unattributed contributions to T. E. Hachey (ed.), Confidential Dispatches:
Analyses of America by the British Ambassador, 1939–45 (Evanston, Illinois,
1974); IB’s disclaimer in a letter of 4 June 1974 to Arthur Schlesinger should
not necessarily be taken at face value:
I have seen Mr Hachey’s book, and it contains only long
despatches – not the weekly political summary which I used to have a hand
in – I think I must have had something to do with these other things too,
but not so very much – they must have been composed by people in my
‘section’ and I must have read them and passed them on, as my own were read and
passed on by my superiors, William Hayter, Michael Wright and suchlike. At any
rate, I recognised very little in them, and thought them not wildly
interesting. Nor are my despatches, for that matter. If anyone digs them out
and publishes them or any part of them, disappointment and boredom will ensue:
such reputation as I acquired as a result of them will evaporate immediately.
140 Contribution to Arthur
Lehning in 1974 (Leiden, 1974: Brill), 3 pp.
141 ‘Mr C. E.
Bohlen: Close Study of Soviet Leaders’ (supplementary obituary), The Times,
11 January 1974, 16
141a ‘Mr Raimund von
Hofmannsthal’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 26 April 1974, 20
141b Contribution to
‘From Missolonghi to Apsley House – A Reappraisal of Byron’, Listener
91 (1974), 623–6
141c Contribution to
‘I remember, I remember’, The Times Literary Supplement, 6 December 1974,
1370
141d Contribution
(excerpt from ‘The Russian Preoccupation with History’) to ‘Out of the Year’, Listener
92 (1974), 830
1975
142 John Petrov
Plamenatz, 1912–1975 (Oxford, [1975]: All Souls College), 12 pp.; repr. in
PI
142a Foreword (on
Avraham Harman) to Dov Noy and Issachar Ben-Ami (eds), Studies in the
Cultural Life of the Jews in England (Jerusalem, 1975: Magnes Press, the
Hebrew University), 7
143 ‘L’apoteosi
della volontà romantica: la rivolta contro il tipo di un mondo ideale’, Lettere
italiane 27 (1975), 44–68; original English version, ‘The Apotheosis of the
Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World’, published in
CTH, repr. in PSM and trans. Latvian, Spanish
144 ‘Performances
memorable and not so memorable’, Opera 26 (1975), 116–20
145 Presidential
Address, Proceedings of the British Academy 61 (1975), 71–81
146 Speech at the
Official Opening of Wolfson College, Oxford, 12 November 1974, Lycidas 3
(1975), 3–6
146a (unattributed)
‘Sir John Wheeler-Bennett’ (obituary), The Times, 10 December 1975, 19
147 ‘Sir John
Wheeler-Bennett’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 13 December 1975,
16
147a (with others)
‘Writers and the Closed Shop’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement,
25 April 1975, 441
1976
148 Vico and
Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (London, 1976: Hogarth Press;
New York, 1976: Viking; New York, 1977: Vintage Books; London, 1980: Chatto and
Windus; London, 1992: Hogarth Press) (revised versions of 79, 98 and 99, with a
new introduction); repr. in revised form in TCE; trans. Catalan, French,
Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese
Reviews
Kelley, Donald,
‘Conoisseurs of Causes’, The Times Literary Supplement, 9 July 1976, 839
Kessler, Eckhard, Journal
of Philosophy 75 no. 5 (May 1978), 264–70
Luckett, Richard, ‘A
Saving Grace’, Spectator, 13 March 1976, 21
MacIntyre, Alasdair,
Listener 95 (1976), 251
Momigliano, A., ‘On
the Pioneer Trail’, review article, The New York Review of Books, 11
November 1976
Ryan, Alan, ‘Inside
Knowledge’, New Statesman, 27 February 1976, 261
Scouten, A. H., Comparative
Literature Studies 15 (1978)
Struever, Nancy S.
(also reviews James H. Stam, Inquiries into the Origin of Language: The Fate
of a Question), MLN 91 no. 6 (December 1976), 1625–7
Swoboda, Wolfram, New
Boston Review 2 no. 2 (Fall 1976), 14; very critical
149 Contribution to
John Jolliffe (ed.), Auberon Herbert: A Composite Portrait (Tisbury,
1976: Compton Russell), 9–14; repr. as ‘Auberon Herbert’ in PI
150 ‘Comment on
Professor Verene’s Paper’ [Donald Phillip Verene, ‘Vico’s Philosophy of
Imagination’, Social Research 43 (1976), 410–26], Social Research 43
(1976), 426–9; repr. in Giorgio Tagliacozzo and others (eds), Vico and
Contemporary Thought (London, 1976: Macmillan); trans. Spanish
150a ‘Go there to
find your identity’, Jewish Chronicle, 16 April 1974, supplement on 50th
anniversary of the Friends of the Hebrew University, i–ii
151 Presidential
Address, Proceedings of the British Academy 62 (1976), 85–94
152 ‘Vico and the
Ideal of the Enlightenment’, Social Research 43 (1976), 640–53; repr. in
Giorgio Tagliacozzo and others (eds), Vico and Contemporary Thought (London,
1976: Macmillan), and in AC without last section, ‘The Workings of
Providence’ (which is repr. in TCE2); trans. Italian, Polish, Spanish
152a Letter dated 11
July 1973 to Douglas Villiers, in Douglas Villiers (ed.), Next Year in
Jerusalem: Jews in the Twentieth Century (New York, 1976: Viking; London,
1976, Harrap), 106 (a response to Arthur Koestler, ‘The Vital Choice’, ibid.,
98–105); repr. at L3 538–9
152b ‘Vico’s
Doctrines’ (letter), History Today 26 (1976), 829–30
1977
153 Sir Harry
d’Avigdor Goldsmid, 1906–1976 ([London, 1977]: privately printed), 6 pp.
153a Contribution to
Mstislav Rostropovich: 50th Birthday Gala Concert, concert programme for
Rostropovich’s 50th birthday concert at the Royal Festival Hall, 6 March 1977
154 ‘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 AC
155 ‘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
156 Presidential
Address, Proceedings of the British Academy 63 (1977), 1–11
156a Contribution to
‘Reputations Revisited’, The Times Literary Supplement, 21 January 1977,
66
1978
Note:
Items 157, 158, 166 and 167 were originally published under the series title Selected
Writings. In later editions this collective identity was dropped.
157 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; ) (reprints of 30, 44, 56, 57, 76, 82, 125); trans.
Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese (in part), Polish,
Portuguese, Spanish
Reviews
Hingley, Ronald,
‘Narcissists’, Spectator, 7 January 1978, 20
Kempski, Jürgen von,
review of Russische Denker (German trans.), Merkur 36 no. 4
(April 1982), 417
Marko, Kurt, review
(in English) of Russische Denker (German trans.), Studies in Soviet
Thought 26 no. 1 (July 1983), 77–80
Muchnic, Helen, ‘
The Undefeated’, New York Review of Books, 15 June 1978, 21–4
Young, George M.,
Jr, ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Russian Thinkers’, Review of Politics 41 no. 4
(October 1979), 596–8
West, Rebecca, Sunday
Telegraph, 15 January 1978
Zeldin,
Mary-Barbara, Russian Review 38 no. 3 (July 1979), 364–5; highly
critical of the editors (on grounds rejected by IB in a letter to one of them)
2nd ed., revised by
Henry Hardy, glossary by Jason Ferrell (London etc., 2008: Penguin Classics)
158 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; Princeton, 1999: Princeton University Press) (reprints
of 25, 35, 36, 64, 77, 81, 85, 93); trans. Italian, Japanese (in part), Spanish
Reviews
Quinton, Anthony,
‘Idea-Systems’, Spectator, 23 September 1978, 61
2nd. ed., foreword
by Alasdair MacIntyre (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press); adds an
appendix containing reprints of 22, 95a, 161a, 171 (in part), 217, 219, the
first draft of 229 (275), and letters on the genesis of the book (277)
159 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.: no. 6 in the Japan Foundation’s series
of pamphlets publishing guest lectures); repr. in J. M. Porter and Richard
Vernon (eds), Unity, Plurality and Politics: Essays in Honour of F. M.
Barnard (London and Sydney, 1986: Croom Helm), and CTH; trans. Arabic,
Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish, Spanish
160 Introduction to Derek
Hill: Portraits (London, 1978: Marlborough Fine Art), 3
160a ‘Comments’ (on
Abraham Kaplan, ‘Historical Interpretation’, in the same volume), in Yirmiahu
Yovel (ed.), Philosophy of History and Action (Dordrecht/Boston/London,
1978: Reidel; Jerusalem, 1978: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University), 38–40
160b ‘Marx’s Kapital
and Darwin’, Journal of the History of Ideas 39 (1978), 519 (abstract in
the Philosopher’s Index 12 (1978), 234)
161 ‘El
nacionalismo: descuido del pasado y poder actual’, Diálogos 14 no. 6 (November/December
1978), 10–17; original English version, ‘Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present
Power’, published in Partisan Review 46 (1979), 337–58, AC and PSM;
trans. Bulgarian, Catalan, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian
161a (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; repr. in part in CC2
162 Presidential
Address, Proceedings of the British Academy 64 (1978), 1–9
163 ‘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
164 ‘Tolstoy
Remembered’, review of Tatyana Tolstoy, Tolstoy Remembered, New
Review 5 no. 2 (Autumn 1978), 3–7
165 ‘Mr Nicholas
Nabokov’ (obituary), The Times, 15 April 1978, 16
1979
166 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) (reprints of 58, 75, 108, 110, 114, 118, 121, 122, 134, 139, 152, 154,
161); trans. Catalan, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian,
Italian, Japanese (in part), Polish, Serbian, Spanish
Reviews
Bobbio, Norberto,
‘Il liberalismo di Isaiah Berlin’, Rivista storica italiana 92 (1980),
612–20
Chapman, M. C., Studies
in Soviet Thought 22 no. 2 (February 1983), 123–8; extremely laudatory
Delannoi, Gil,
review of Éloge de la liberté and À contrecourant: essais sur
l’histoire des idées (French translations of FEL and AC), Esprit,
March–April 1989, 201–3
Lieberson, Jonathan,
and Morgenbesser, Sidney, ‘The Questions of Isaiah Berlin’ and ‘The Choices of
Isaiah Berlin’, New York Review of Books, 6 March 1980, 38–42, and 20
March 1980, 31–6
Lu Jiande, ‘Berlin: In Defence of Plural Values’ (in Chinese), review of
the Chinese trans., Global Times, 26 May 2003, 22
Munz, Peter (also
reviews 2 other books), Historian 44 no. 1 (November 1981), 85
Shklar, Judith, New
Republic, 5 April 1980, 32–35
Storr, Anthony,
‘Many Answers’, Spectator, 9 June 1979, 21–2
Wischke, Mirko,
review of German trans., Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 41 no. 3
(January 1993), 599–600
2nd ed., foreword by
Mark Lilla (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press); adds an appendix
containing relevant letters (278); foreword repr. as ‘Isaiah Berlin Against the
Current’, New York Review of Books, 25 April 2013
166a
‘Einstein and Israel’, New York Review of Books, 8 November 1979, 13–18;
repr. of major part of contribution to Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (eds), Albert
Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, the Centennial Symposium in
Jerusalem (Princeton, 1982: Princeton University Press), 281–92; repr. in Anthology:
Selected Essays from Thirty Years of The New York Review of Books ([New
York, 1993]: New York Review of Books), and PI; trans. Hebrew, Russian
166b ‘Professor
Scouten on Herder and Vico’, Comparative Literature Studies 16 (1979),
141–5
166c Note on Lidiya
Chukovsky, Zapiski ob Anna Akhmatovoi [Notes about Anna Akhmatova],
i, 1938–1941 (Paris, 1976), in ‘In absentia: Some Books of the Year’, The
Times Literary Supplement, 23 November 1979, 4
166d Letter to Adam
Podgorecki (on the intelligentsia), in Adam Podgorecki and Maria Los, Multi-Dimensional
Sociology (London, Boston and Henley, 1979: Routledge and Kegan Paul),
315–16
166e (with Lord
Donaldson and Sir Claus Moser) ‘The Death of Walter Legge’ (letter), Financial
Times, 27 March 1979, 27
1980
167 Personal
Impressions, ed. Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Noel Annan (London,
1980: Hogarth Press; New York, 1981: Viking; Oxford, 1982: Oxford University
Press; New York, 1982: Penguin) (reprints of 32, 51, 60, 70, 72, 92, 96, 104,
120, 133, 142, 149, 166a, together with 169); trans. Hebrew (in part), Italian
(in part), Japanese (in part), Lithuanian, Portuguese, Spanish
Reviews
Collini, Stefan,
‘Dream of the Seventh Dominion’ (also reviews Norman Rose, Lewis Namier and
Zionism), London Review of Books, 4 December 1980, 19–20
Jacoby, Russell,
‘Isaiah Berlin: With the Current’ [review of RT, CC, AC, PI], Salmagundi
55 (Winter 1982), 232–41
Owen, John E., Journal
of Thought 17 no. 2 (Summer 1982), 109–11
Storr, Anthony,
‘Portrait Gallery’, Spectator, 15 November 1980, 17–18
Taylor, A. J. P,
‘Commemorations’, Observer, 9 November 1980; repr. in A. J. P. Taylor, British
Prime Ministers and Other Essays, ed. Chris Wrigley (London, 1998: Allen
Lane The Penguin Press), 353–5
Wasiolek, Edward,
‘Isaiah Berlin’s Personal Impressions’, Chicago Review 33 no. 1
(Summer 1981), 99–101
2nd ed. (London, 1998: Pimlico; Princeton, 2001: Princeton
University Press); adds reprints of 172, 194a, 195, 198, 214; trans. Chinese,
German
Review
Gunn, J. W. ‘Isaiah
Berlin: How Much is Too Much?’, review of PI2 and RR, Clio
32 no. 1 (2002), 61–86
3rd ed., foreword by
Hermione Lee (Princeton, 2014: Princeton University Press); adds the original
English text of 203e and reprints of 177c, 179, 181b, 188a, 191, 192, 192a,
203f, 215, 220, 222; trans. Chinese, German
168 Story in Pass
the Port Again: The Best After-Dinner Stories of the Famous (London, 1980:
Christian Brann), 21
168a ‘The
Incompatibility of Values’, in Melvin Kranzberg (ed.), Ethics in an Age of
Pervasive Technology (Boulder, 1980: Westview Press), 32–3
168b ‘Virtue and
Practicality’, in Melvin Kranzberg (ed.), Ethics in an Age of Pervasive
Technology (Boulder, 1980: Westview Press), 193
169 ‘Meetings with
Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in PI; trans. French (in part), Spanish (in
part), Russian
Shortened version, ‘Conversations with Russian Poets’ (given
as a Bowra Lecture), The Times Literary Supplement, 31 October 1980,
1233–6, and (with additions, as ‘Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak’
(this version repr. in PSM, SM and Robert B. Silvers (ed.), The Company They
Kept, vol. 2, Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (New York, 2011:
New York Review Books)), New York Review of Books, 20 November 1980,
23–35; excerpted as ‘Anna Akhmatova: A Memoir’ in The Complete Poems of Anna
Akhmatova, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer, ed. Roberta Reeder (Somerville,
Massachusetts, 1990: Zephyr Press), vol. 2, and in the one-volume edition
(Somerville, Massachusetts, 1992: Zephyr Press; 2nd. ed., Boston,
Massachusetts, 1994: Zephyr Press; Edinburgh, 1994: Canongate Press); trans.
Dutch, Hebrew, German, Polish; the following opening paragraph of the lecture
as delivered was omitted from the published text:
I must begin by
thanking the Warden and Fellows of Wadham for inviting me to take part in this
distinguished series of lectures – the Bowra Lectures, of which, I gather, this
is to be the last. My subject – an account of my two visits to the Soviet Union
after the war, and in particular my meetings with two poets of genius – owes a
great deal to Maurice Bowra. It was his deep and lifelong fascination with
Russian poetry, especially the poetry of the twentieth century, that first led
me, in my last year as an undergraduate, to read modern Russian poets, some of
whom had, earlier, been mere names to me. He took a particular interest in the
poets of the turbulent years immediately before and after the Revolution: both
the survivors of the Symbolist movement which had begun in the 1890s, and the
younger poets – Mayakovsky, Gumilev, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva,
Khlebnikov, Mandel'shtam – who pursued different paths and were at the
height of their creative powers during and after the First World War. He loved
them all, and his enthusiasm communicated itself to me, over the many years of
our friendship. Consequently, when the British Embassy in Moscow reported that
it was short-handed, especially in the matter of officials who knew Russian,
and it was suggested that I might fill a gap for four or five months, I
accepted this offer eagerly, mainly, I must admit, because of my great desire
to learn about the condition of Russian literature and art, about which
relatively little was known in the West at that time. I owe Maurice Bowra a
deep debt of gratitude in this respect, as in many others, and I am glad of
this opportunity of acknowledging it.
170 ‘Note on Alleged
Relativism in Eighteenth Century European Thought’, British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies 3 (1980), 89–106; repr. with revisions in L.
Pompa and W. H. Dray (eds), Substance and Form in History: A Collection of
Essays in Philosophy of History (Edinburgh, 1981: University of Edinburgh
Press), and CTH; trans. Italian, Polish
171 ‘On Philosophy’,
Good Book Guide 8 (Spring 1980), 10; repr. (in part) in CC2
171a ‘A Tribute to
my Friend’ (on Jacob Talmon), Forum no. 38 (Summer 1980), 1–4; trans.
Hebrew
172 ‘Upon Receiving
the Jerusalem Prize’, Conservative Judaism 33 no. 2 (Winter 1980),
14–17; repr. as ‘The Three Strands in My Life’, Jewish Quarterly 27 Nos
2–3 (Summer/Autumn 1979), 5–7; trans. Russian
172a Contribution to
‘Books of the Year’, Sunday Times, 7 December 1980, Weekly Review,
33
172b Contribution to
[Evangeline Bell Bruce (ed.),] David K. E. Bruce (Salisbury, 1980:
Michael Russell), 12–13
173 ‘The Hedgehog
and the Fox Continued’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 9 October
1980, 44; cf. 44
1981
173a For Teddy
Kollek ([Jerusalem, 1981]: The Jerusalem Foundation), 7 pp.
174 Introduction and
unattributed contributions to H. G. Nicholas (ed.), Washington Despatches
1941–45: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy (London, 1981:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Chicago, 1981: Chicago University Press), vii–xiv;
introduction repr. in L1
Review
Schlesinger, Jr.,
Arthur, ‘Washington at War’, New York Review of Books, 17 December 1981,
52
175 Translation,
with Introduction, of Ivan Turgenev, A Month in the Country (London,
1981: Hogarth Press; New York, 1982: Viking; Harmondsworth, 1983: Penguin)
176 Reply to Hans
Aarsleff, ‘Vico and Berlin’, London Review of Books, 5–18 November 1981,
7–8; letter, 3–16 June 1982, 5
177 ‘Russian Thought
and the Slavophile Controversy’, review of Andrzej Walicki, A History of
Russian Thought (From the Enlightenment to Marxism) and The Slavophile
Controversy, Slavonic and East European Review 59 (1981), 572–86;
trans. Russian
177a Contribution to
‘Books of the Year: A Personal Choice’, Observer, 6 December 1981, 25
177b ‘Plea for a Library’
(letter), Jewish Chronicle, 25 December 1981, 16
177c Contributions
to Sandra Martin and Roger Hall (eds), Where Were You? Memorable Events of
the Twentieth Century (Toronto etc., 1981: Methuen), 119–20 (Pearl Harbor),
183–4 (Cuban Missile Crisis), 206–7 (Assassination of John F. Kennedy), 220
(Russian Revolution), 227–8 (Six-Day War); repr. as ‘Where Was I?’ in PI3;
excerpts from first, second, third and last contributions trans. Spanish
177d ‘How Russian
and English Lines Can Get Crossed’ (letter), Guardian, 19 February 1981,
12
177e ‘In Einstein’s
Opinion’ (letter), Observer, 24 May 1981, 16
1982
178 ‘A Letter from
Sir Isaiah Berlin’, Intellectual History no. 1 (November 1982), 3
179 ‘Mrs Salome
Halpern’ (obituary), The Times, 17 May 1982, 12; repr. at PI3 321–2
180 ‘Prof. Roman
Jakobson’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 31 July 1982, 10
1983
181 ‘Giambattista
Vico and Cultural History’, in Leigh S. Cauman and others (eds), How Many
Questions? Essays in Honor of Sidney Morgenbesser Indianapolis, 1983:
Hackett), 474–97; repr. in CTH; trans. Polish, Russian
181a ‘The Conscience of Israel’ (in Hebrew
translation), tribute to Yishayahu Leibowitz, Ha’aretz, 4 March 1983, 18
181b ‘Maynard and
Lydia Keynes’, in Milo Keynes (ed.), Lydia Lopokova (London, 1983:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson), 170–3; repr. in PI3
182 ‘The Gentle
Genius’, review of Turgenev’s Letters, selected, trans. and ed. A. V.
Knowles, New York Review of Books, 27 October 1983, 23–33
183 ‘Isaiah Berlin
et le progrès’ (letter), Le Monde Dimanche, 3 July 1983, ii
184 ‘Reply to Robert
Kocis’, Political Studies 31 (1983), 388–93; repr. in CTH2
184a Contribution to
‘Books of the Year’, Sunday Times, 11 December 1983, 39
184b (with others)
‘Charges Against KOR Repudiated’ (letter), The Times, 2 March 1983, 13
184c Contribution to
Linda Sternberg Katz and Bill Katz, Writer’s Choice: A Library of
Rediscoveries (Reston, Virginia, 1983: Reston Publishing Company), 7
184d Contribution to
Morris Halle and Paul E. Gray (eds), A Tribute to Roman Jakobson 1896–1982
(Berlin, 1983: Mouton), 69
1984
185 ‘A
New Woman in Russia’, review of John Carswell, The
Exile: A Life of Ivy Litvinov, Sunday Times, 6 May 1984, 41
186 ‘Mozart at Glyndebourne
Half a Century Ago’, in John Higgins (ed.), Glyndebourne: A Celebration (London,
1984: Cape), 101–9
187 Foreword to Sir
Immanuel Jakobovits, ‘If Only My People....’: Zionism in My Life (London,
1984: Weidenfeld and Nicolson), ix
188 Tribute to Sir
Hugh Casson, RA (the magazine for the Friends of the Royal Academy) no.
5 (December 1984), 27
1985
188a ‘Nahum Goldmann
(1895–1982): A Personal Impression’, in William Frankel (ed.), Survey of
Jewish Affairs 1983 (Rutherford/ Madison/Teaneck, 1985: Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press; London/Toronto, 1985: Associated University Presses), 238–43;
excerpted in Jewish Chronicle, 5 July 1985; repr. as ‘Nahum Goldmann’ in
PI3
189 ‘On Vico’ (reply
to Zagorin), Philosophical Quarterly 35 (1985), 281–90 (abstract in the Philosopher’s
Index 19 (1985), 246)
189a
Contribution to ‘Terence Cornelius Farmer Prittie, 15 December 1913 – 28
May 1985, In Memoriam’, Britain & Israel, August 1985, [1]
1986
190 ‘The Cost of
Curing an Oyster’, Jerusalem Post, 10 February 1986, 8; trans. Russian
(in part)
191 ‘Martin Cooper:
In Memoriam’, in programme for memorial concert by Lindsay String Quartet, 29
June 1986, 2 pp.; repr. as Foreword to Martin Cooper, Judgements of Value:
Selected Writings on Music, ed. Dominic Cooper (Oxford, 1988: Oxford
University Press), and as ‘Martin Cooper’ in PI3
192 ‘Memories of
Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion’, Jewish Quarterly 33 (1986) no. 3 (123),
6–9; repr. in PI3
192a ‘A Personal
Tribute to Adam von Trott (Balliol 1931)’, Balliol College Annual Record 1986,
61–2; repr. in L1 and as ‘Adam von Trott’ in PI3
192b ‘A Personal
View of Super-Titles’, in Glyndebourne Touring Opera 1986 (programme)
([Glyndebourne, 1986: Glyndebourne Festival Opera]), 54–6; repr. in About
The House 7 no. 8 (Spring 1987), 8–9, Translation Ireland 15 no. 1
(Spring 2001), 14–15, and as ‘Titlemania: A Voice in Favor’ in Opera News 54
no. 16 (May 1990), 6–7
192c ‘On Yitzhak
Sadeh’ (in Hebrew translation), Davar, 5 September 1986, 17;
incorporated into 214; trans. Russian
192d ‘Spender’s
“Journals” ’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 7 March 1986,
247
193 Entry on J. P.
Plamenatz in Lord Blake and C. S. Nicholls (eds), The Dictionary of National
Biography 1971–1980 (Oxford, 1986: Oxford University Press), 671–3
193a (with others)
‘Polish-Jewish Studies’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 30 January
1986, 44
194 Contribution to
‘Greetings’, Secular Humanistic Judaism no. 1 (February 1986), 2
194b Foreword to
Neil Cornwell, The Life, Times and Milieu of V. F. Odoyevsky 1804–1869
(London, 1986: Athlone Press), ix–x
1987
194a ‘David Cecil
(1902–1986)’, in Reports for1985–86 and 1986–87 (List of Fellows and
Members for 1987) (London, [1987]: Royal Society of Literature), 34–41; repr.
in Hannah Cranborne (ed.), David Cecil: A Portrait by his Friends
(Stanbridge, 1990: Dovecote Press) (as ‘A Close Colleague’s Assessment’) and in
PI (2nd ed.)
195 ‘Edmund Wilson
at Oxford’, Yale Review 76 (1987), 139–51; repr. in New York Times
Book Review, 12 April 1987, 1, 40–2 (in part), Kai Erikson (ed.), Encounters
(New Haven/London, 1989: Yale University Press), Guardian, 12
October 1989, 25, 47, John Patrick Diggins (ed.), The Liberal Persuasion:
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past (Princeton,
1997: Princeton University Press), and PI (2nd ed.); trans. Italian,
Spanish
195a Contribution to
‘Books of the Year: Who read what in 1987?’, Sunday Times, 29 November
1987, Books, 00
195b ‘He Thinks When
He Plays’ (letter), Financial Times, 22 December 1987, 19; on Alfred
Brendel; repr. at L4 331
1988
195c Foreword to Ada
Rapoport-Albert and Steven J. Zipperstein (eds), Jewish History: Essays in
Honour of Chimen Abramsky (London, 1988: Peter Halban), ix
196 On the
Pursuit of the Ideal (Turin, 1988: Giovanni Agnelli Foundation), 16 pp.;
repr. in New York Review of Books, 17 March 1988, 11–18, Christopher
Gowans (ed.), Moral Disagreements: Classic and Contemporary Readings
(London, 2000: Routledge), CTH and PSM; excerpted as ‘The Idea of
Pluralism’ in Walter Truett Anderson (ed.), The Truth about the Truth:
De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World (New York, 1995:
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam; retitled The Fontana Postmodernism Reader,
London, 1996: Fontana Press), and under its original title in Joanne B. Ciulla
[ (ed.)], The Ethics of Leadership (Belmont, CA, 2002 [copyright notice
dated 2003]: Thomson/Wadsworth), 266–8; trans. Arabic, Estonian, French,
Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (in part)
197 ‘Dorothy de
Rothschild’ (obituary), Independent, 12 December 1988, 28
197a
‘Israeli Solution’ (letter), Independent, 28 September 1988, 19
197b ‘Wybór listów
od Isaiaha Berlina’ (letters to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, translated into
Polish, with commentary by the recipient), in Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, Filozofia
wolnosci Isaiaha Berlina (Krakow, 1988: Wydawnictwo Znak), 170–206: some
repr. in L4
1989
198 ‘Writers
Remembered: Virginia Woolf’, Author 100 (1989), 96–7; repr. in PI2
198a Foreword to
Anatoly Nayman, Remembering Anna Akhmatova, trans. Wendy Rosslyn
(London, 1989, Peter Halban), vii
198b Contribution to
Academy of St Martin in the Fields 1959–1989, 30th anniversary booklet
(London, 1989: Academy of St Martin in the Fields)
1990
199 The Crooked
Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, ed. Henry Hardy
(London, 1990: John Murray; New York, 1991: Knopf; London, 1991: Fontana Press;
New York, 1992: Vintage Books; Princeton, 1998: Princeton University Press)
(reprints of 73, 128, 159, 170, 181, 196, together with 200 and the original English
version of 143); trans. Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
Reviews
Anderson, Perry,
‘The Pluralism of Isaiah Berlin’, London Review of Books, 20 December
1990, 3–7; letter in reply by Noel Annan ibid., 24 January 1991, 4; reply to
Annan by Anderson, 7 February 1991, 4); review repr. in Anderson’s A Zone of
Engagement (London, 1992: Verso), 230–51
Carr, Raymond,
‘There Can Be no. Final Solution’, Spectator, 27 October 1990, 27–8
Himmelfarb,
Gertrude, New York Times Book Review, 24 March 1991, 1, 30–1
Honneth, Axel, European
Journal of Philosophy 1 no. 1 (April 1993), 98–101; constructive
Jamieson, T. John,
‘A Joseph de Maistre Revival’ (also reviews other books), Modern Age 38
no. 4 (Fall 1996), 392–8 at 393, 395, 397, 398
Meilaender, Gilbert,
‘The One and the Many’, First Things no. 18 (December 1991), 47–9;
religious reservations
Pompa, Leon, Philosophical
Quarterly 41 no. 165 (October 1991), 500–2
Warnock, Mary,
‘Incompatible Ideals’, RSA Journal, January 1991, 939; recommended
2nd ed., foreword by
John Banville (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press); adds an appendix
containing reprints of 28, 184, 204, 258a, and letters (279) on Maistre and on
nationalism
200 ‘Joseph de
Maistre and the Origins of Fascism’, in CTH, 91–174; repr. in slightly
shortened form in New York Review of Books, 27 September 1990, 57–64, 11
October 1990, 54–8, 25 October1990, 61–5; trans. Polish, Russian, Spanish (in
part)
200a Contribution to
The Evolution of the Symphony Orchestra: History, Problems and Agenda (London,
1990: Weidenfeld and Nicolson), 123–5
200b Contribution to
Robert B. Silvers ([New York], 1990: The New York Review of Books)
201 Contribution to
‘The State of Europe: Christmas Eve 1989’ in Granta 30 (Winter 1990) [New
Europe!], 148–50; repr. in the Guardian, 20 February 1990, 19; repr.
in Twenty-One: The Best of Granta Magazine (London and New York, 2001:
Granta Books) and as ‘The Survival of the Russian Intelligentsia’ in SM; trans.
German, Italian
201a Contribution
(on Mozart) to Vita (published by Merian) 1 no. 1 (October 1990),
16
201b Contribution to
programme insert on Garrett Drogheda ([London, 1990: Royal Opera House])
201c (with others)
‘An Open Letter On Anti-Armenian Pogroms in the Soviet Union’ (letter), New
York Review of Books, 27 September 1990, 66
202 Contribution
to ‘Boris Pasternak’ (letters), The Times Literary Supplement, 16–22
February 1990, 171
202a ‘No
Conservative’, reply to letter from Samson B. Knoll on Herder, New York
Review of Books, 20 December 1990, 78
1991
203 ‘Der Vetter aus
Oxford’ (Yehudi Menuhin), in Jutta Schall-Emden (ed.), Weder Pauken noch
Trompeten: Für Yehudi Menuhin (Munich/Zurich, 1991: Piper), 30–32
203a Letter to
Antonio Verri, in Antonio Verri (ed.), Vico e il pensiero contemporaneo
(Lecce, [1991]: Milella), vi–vii
203b (with others)
‘The Detention of Sari Nusseibeh’ (letter), Independent, 4 February
1991, 18
203c (with others)
‘The Detention of Sari Nusseibeh’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 7
March 1991, 4
203d ‘Position on
the Chair’ (letter), Observer, 23 June 1991, 42
1992
203e ‘Alexander and
Salome Halpern’ (in Russian translation), in a Russian collection: Mikhail
Parkhomovsky (ed.), Jews in the Culture of Russia Abroad: Collected
Articles, Publications, Memoirs and Essays, vol. 1, 1919–1939
(Jerusalem, 1992: M. Parkhomovsky), 229–41; repr. in Mikhail Parkhomovsky and
Andrey Rogachevsky (eds), Russian Jews in Great Britain: Articles,
Publications, Memoirs and Essays [Russian Jewry Abroad, vol. 2]
(Jerusalem, 2000: Mikhail Parkhomovsky); abstract: ‘These are Berlin’s memoirs
about Salomea Andronikova, one of the prominent figures in a pre-revolutionary
circle of Russian poets, artists and musicians, about her husband Alexander
Halpern, a lawyer and a Zionist, and about Anna (Niouta) Kalina, an art critic
and radio journalist who lived with the Halperns in their London home’;
original English text published in PI3
203f ‘The
Early Years’, in Freda Silver Jackson (ed.), Then
and Now: A Collection of Recollections (Oxford, 1992:
Oxford Jewish Congregation), 15–18; repr. as ‘Jewish Oxford’ in PI3
204 ‘Reply to Ronald
H. McKinney, “ Towards a Postmodern Ethics: Sir Isaiah Berlin and John Caputo”
[Journal of Value Inquiry 26 (1992), 395–407]’, Journal of Value
Inquiry 26 (1992), 15–18; repr. as ‘Reply to Ronald H. McKinney’ in CTH2
205 Introduction to Founders
and Followers: Literary Lectures given on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary
of the Founding of the London Library (London, 1992: Sinclair-Stevenson),
xi–xv
206 Introduction to programme for concert
given to celebrate the inauguration of Israel’s new Supreme Court Building,
November 1992, 2 pp. [Fucking hypocrite.]
207 Letters to Conor
Cruise O’Brien in Conor Cruise O’Brien, The Great Melody: A Thematic
Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke (London, 1992: Sinclair
Stevenson), 612–15, 617–18
208 ‘Mixing It’
(letter), Oxford Magazine, Noughth Week, Hilary Term 1992, 8
209 ‘No Trace of
Roguery’ (letter), Spectator, 11 January 1992, 22
209a (unattributed)
‘Professor H. L. A. Hart’ (obituary), The Times, 24 December 1992, 13
210 Contribution to
feature on the literary canon, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 24
January 1992, 16
211 Appreciation of
David Patterson, Centre Piece [Newsletter of the Oxford Centre for
Postgraduate Hebrew Studies] No 10 (November 1992), 2
211a Comment in
Charles C. Brown, Niebuhr and His Age: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Prophetic Role and
Legacy (Philadelphia, 1992: Trinity Press International), i
1993
212 The Magus of the North: J. G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern
Irrationalism, ed. Henry Hardy (London, 1993: John Murray; New York, 1994:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; London, 1994: Fontana Press); excerpted as ‘The
Magus of the North’ in New York Review of Books, 21 October 1993, 64–71
(letter, 18 November 1993, 68); repr. in TCE with Foreword to the German
edition; trans. French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish;
excerpt trans. French, German, Italian, Spanish
Reviews
Deragon, S., review
of Le Mage du Nord, critique des Lumières: J. G. Hamann (1730–1788)
(French trans.), Dialogue 38 no. 2 (Kingston, Ontario and Montreal,
1999), 426–7
Lilla, Mark, ‘The
Trouble with the Enlightenment’, London Review of Books, 6 January 1994,
12–13
Spivey, Nigel,
‘Where Did He Come from, Where Did He Lead To?’, Spectator, 11 December
1993, 37
Traverso, E., review
of Le Mage du Nord (French trans.), Quinzaine Litteraire 742
(1998), 23
Wischke, Mirko,
review of Ramin Jahanbegloo, Den Ideen die Stimme wiedergeben: Eine
intellektuelle Biographie in Gesprächen; Freiheit: Vier Versuche;
and Der Magus des Nordens: J. G. Hamann und der Ursprung des modernen
Irrationalismus (German translations of CIB, FEL and MN), Philosophischer
Literaturanzeiger 51 no. 2 (April 1998), 141–5
212a ‘England’s
Mistaken Moralist’ (G. E. Moore in Principia Ethica), contribution to
‘Speaking Volumes’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 October
1993, 20
213 ‘A Reply to David
West’, Political Studies 41 (1993), 297–8
215 Contribution to
Sir Isaiah Berlin and others, Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart 1907–1992:
Speeches Delivered at Memorial Ceremony on 6 February 1993 ([Oxford, 1993]:
privately printed), 1–8; repr. in Jenifer Hart, Ask Me no. More: An
Autobiography (London, 1998: Peter Halban), and as ‘Herbert Hart’ in PI3;
trans. Japanese
215a Contribution
(on books read during 1992) to Misuzu 35 no. 1 (January 1993), 49
215b Contribution to
tenth anniversary CD booklet for Music at Oxford ([Oxford, 1993: Music at
Oxford])
1994
216 ‘La rivoluzione romantica: una crisi nella storia del pensiero
moderno’, in Isaiah Berlin, Tra la filosofia e la storia delle idee:
intervista autobiografica, ed. Steven Lukes (Florence, 1994: Ponte alle
Grazie), 97–122; original English version, ‘The Romantic Revolution: A Crisis
in the History of Modern Thought’, published in SR and trans. Dutch,
German
217 (with Bernard
Williams) ‘Pluralism and Liberalism: A Reply’ (to George Crowder, ‘Pluralism
and Liberalism’, Political Studies 42 (1994), 293–303), Political
Studies 42 (1994), 306–9; repr. as ‘Pluralism and Liberalism’ in CC2
218 Introduction to
Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France, ed. Richard A. Lebrun
(Cambridge, 1994: Cambridge University Press), xi–xxxiv
Review
Crossley, Ceri,
review of Maistre, Modern Language Review 90 no. 4 (October 1995),
1010–11
219 Introduction to
James Tully (ed.), Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of
Charles Taylor in Question (Cambridge etc., 1994: Cambridge University
Press), 1–3; repr. as ‘The Philosophy of Charles Taylor’ in CC2
220 Contribution to
Brian Harrison (ed.), Corpuscles: A History of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, in the Twentieth Century, Written by Its Members (Oxford, 1994:
Corpus Christi College), 44–50; repr. as ‘Corpuscle’ in PI3
220a Contribution to
‘Brushes with Genius’ (meetings with Picasso), Independent on Sunday, 6
February 1994, Sunday Review, 25
220b Contribution to
‘Classics of Our Time’, Sunday Telegraph, 2 January 1994, Review,
8
220c Contribution to
‘Referred Pleasures: Fifteen writers celebrate their favourite reference
books’, The Times Literary Supplement, 22 April 1994, 13
220d Tribute to Sir
Neville Marriner, in souvenir programme for his 70th birthday concert, 5 April
1994, Royal Festival Hall (London, 1994: Academy of St Martin in the Fields)
1995
221 ‘Liberty’, in
Ted Honderich (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford, 1995:
Oxford University Press), 485–7; repr. in POI and L
222 Contribution to
‘Remembering Stephen’ (a tribute to Stephen Spender), Index on Censorship 25
no. 5 (October 1995), 10–11, 13–14; repr. as ‘Stephen Spender’ in PI3 and at L4
509–14
222a (with Andrzej
Walicki) ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin do Andrzeja Walickiego’ (letters from IB to AW,
translated by Magda Pietrzak-Merta and Tomasz Merta, with comments by AW), Res
Publica 82/83 (double issue, July/August 1995), 101–116; some repr. in L3
and L4
223 (with Robert
Grant) ‘Tolstoy and Enlightenment: An Exchange’, Oyster Club no. 6
(Spring/Summer1995), 13–16
224 ‘Nin Ryan’
(obituary), Independent, 10 February 1995, 16
225 Foreword to ‘... from the fruits of
her labour she planted a vineyard.’, Essays on the Role of Private
Philanthropy in Israel to Mark the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Dorothy de
Rothschild, 7 March 1995 ([Jerusalem], 1995: Yad Hanadiv), 9–10
226 Contribution (on
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago) to ‘On the Shelf’, Sunday Times,
7 November 1995, section 7 (‘Books’), 9
1996
227 The Sense of
Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History, ed. Henry Hardy, with an
introduction by Patrick Gardiner (London, 1996: Chatto and Windus; New York,
1997: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; London, 1997: Pimlico) (a revised reprint of
38 together with the original English version of 216 and seven other previously
unpublished essays, 228and 230–5); trans. Chinese, French, German, Hebrew,
Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
Review
Allen, Jonathan, South
African Journal of Philosophy 17 no. 2 (1998), 173–7; particularly
recommended
228 ‘Artistic
Commitment: A Russian Legacy’, in SR, 194–231; trans. Russian
229 ‘Berlin’, in Thomas Mautner (ed.), A Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford,
1996: Blackwell; reissued with revisions as The Penguin Dictionary of
Philosophy, London etc., 1997: Penguin), 51–2 (Penguin, 67–9); see also 275
233 ‘Political Judgement’, in SR, 40–53; repr. as ‘On Political
Judgement’ in New York Review of Books, 3 October1996, 26–30; trans.
German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
235a Contribution to
‘Why be Jewish?’, The UJS Haggadah (London, 1996: The Union of Jewish
Students), 68
236 Supplementary
obituary note on Lydia Chukovskaya, Guardian, 9 February 1996, 13
236a ‘A Flick Back’
(letter), Guardian, 21 March 1996, 18
236b ‘No Smoking in
Class’ (letter), Sunday Telegraph, 2 June 1996, 30
236c (with others)
‘Solidarity with Turkish Writers’ (letter), Independent, 31 May 1996, 17
1997
237 The Proper
Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, ed. Henry Hardy and Roger
Hausheer, foreword by Noel Annan and introduction by Roger Hausheer (London,
1997: Chatto and Windus; New York, 1998: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; London,
1998: Pimlico) (reprints of 32, 44, 54, 60, 71, 77, 81, 93, 98, 108, 122, 134,
139, 143, 161, 169 ( New York Review of Books version) and 196, with a
concise bibliography of Isaiah Berlin’s writings by Henry Hardy); trans.
Bosnia, Bulgarian (in part), Catalan, Croatian (in part), Finnish (in part),
Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish
Reviews
Castello Branco,
José Tomaz, ‘Liberdade e pluralismo’, review of the two-volume Portuguese
trans., Nova cidadania no. 3 (Winter 1999/2000), 63–7
Cherniss, Joshua,
review of FIB and PSM, History of European Ideas 31
(2005), 512–17
Mayos, Gonçal, ‘Isaiah
Berlin: un gran clàssic finalment traduït’, review of Catalan
trans. by Laia Font and Dolors Udina, El veritable estudi de la humanitat:
una antologia d’assaigs (Barcelona, 2009: Editorial Empúries), Caràcters:
segona època no. 51 (April 2010), 19
Ryan, Alan, ‘Wise
Man’ (also reviews Michael Ignatieff’s biography), New York Review of Books,
17 December 1998, 29–37
Worsthorne,
Peregrine, ‘Abandoning a Low Profile’, Spectator, 8 March 1997, 34–5
2nd ed., foreword by
Andrew Marr (London, 2014: Vintage)
237a ‘Literature and Art in the RSFSR’ (1945) (Russian Translation by
Galina Andreeva of part of ‘A Note on Literature and the Arts in the Russian
Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in the closing months of 1945’, in Public
Record Office FO 371/56725), Kulisa NG [supplement to Nezavisimaya
gazeta] no. 2 (December 1997), 4–5 (published by Nina Koroleva; repr. with
cuts restored in Zvezda, 2003 No 7 [July], 126–42); full text published
as ‘Litteratura i iskusstvo v Rossii pri Staline’, trans. L. Lakhuty, in Istoriya
svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie); English
original published (with one passage cut) as ‘The Arts in Russia under Stalin’,
New York Review of Books, 19 October 2000, 54–63, and (in full) in SM;
trans. Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (in part)
237b ‘Sir Thomas
Armstrong (1898–1994)’, in Christ Church 1996 [Oxford, 1997: Christ
Church], 72–3, and in Rosemary Rapaport (ed.), Thomas Armstrong: A
Celebration by His Friends (Oxford, 1998: Thames Publishing), 40–1
238 Contribution to
‘Books of the Century’, Sunday Telegraph, 9 February 1997, Sunday
Review, 12
238a Contribution
(on his favourite images) to RA (The Royal Academy Magazine) no. 57
(Winter 1997), 62
239 Letters to Rocco
Pezzimenti in Rocco Pezzimenti, The Open Society and its Friends, with
letters from Isaiah Berlin and the late Karl R. Popper (Leominster/Rome,
1997: Gracewing/Millennium Romae), 173–8, 182–4
1998
240 ‘My Intellectual
Path’ (with 241, under the joint title ‘The First and the Last’), New York
Review of Books, 14 May 1998, 53–60; repr. in The First and the Last
(New York, 1999: New York Review Books; London, 1999: Granta), POI and
L (in part); trans. Chinese (with the mistaken title ‘My Academic Path’) in
the book for which it was written, Ouyang Kang (ed.), Dangdai
yingmei zhuming zhexuejia xueshu zishu [The Academic
Self-Statements of Contemporary British and American Distinguished Philosophers]
(Beijing, 2005: The People’s Press), 47–70; also trans. Catalan, Italian,
Latvian (in part), Spanish, Vietnamese
Review of FL
Eagleton, Terry,
‘All Souls Can’t Speak to All Souls’ (also reviews Richard Hoggart, Last
Things), The Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 February 2000,
??; repr. as ‘Isaiah Berlin and Richard Hoggart’ in id., Figures of Dissent:
Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and Others (London, 2003: Verso),
104–8
241 ‘The Purpose
Justifies the Ways’ (1922) (with 240, under the joint title ‘The First and the
Last’), New York Review of Books, 14 May 1998, 52–3; repr. in Du,
December 1998, 22–4, The First and the Last (New York, 1999, New York
Review of Books; London, 1999: Granta) and L; trans. Catalan, German, Italian,
Spanish, Vietnamese
241a ‘A Turning-Point in Political Thought’, Common Knowledge 7
no. 3 (Winter 1998), 186–214; repr. in L as ‘The Birth of Greek Individualism:
A Turning-Point in the History of Political Thought’; trans Spanish
242 Foreword to
Jenifer Hart, Ask Me No More: An Autobiography (London, 1998: Peter
Halban), xi–xviii
242a (with
Fred S. Worms) ‘From Abraham to Washington: Extracts from an Unpublished
Correspondence’, Jewish Quarterly 45 (1998/9) no. 4 (172), 32–6; repr.
as ‘Zionism and Sir Isaiah Berlin’ in Ariel: The Israel Review of Arts and
Letters 110 (1999), 47–54; two letters repr. in part in L4
242b ‘A Letter to
Elizabeth Bowen’ (1933), Oxford Magazine 156 (Eighth Week, Trinity Term,
1998), 8–9; repr. at L1 70–3
242c ed. with Herman
Branover and Zeev Wagner, The Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry: Biographies A–I
(Northvale, NJ, 1998: Jason Aronson)
1999
243 The Roots of Romanticism, the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the
Fine Arts, 1965, ed. Henry Hardy (London, 1999: Chatto and Windus; Princeton,
1999: Princeton University Press; London, 2000: Pimlico); excerpted in The The
Times Literary Supplement on The Romantics ed. Michael Caines and Alan
Jenkins (London, 2005: The Times Literary Supplement), 1–2, 125–126;
trans. Dutch, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbo-Croat,
Spanish, Turkish
Reviews
Bowie, A., Radical
Philosophy 97 (1999) 44–5
Dunachie, Findlay,
‘Isaiah Berlin Lectures on Liberty and Romanticism’, review of FIB and RR,
samizdata.net
blog, 14 September 2004
Gunn, J. W. ‘Isaiah
Berlin: How Much is Too Much?’, review of PI2 and RR, Clio
32 no. 1 (2002), 61–86
Mackillop, Ian,
‘Isaiah Berlin: Modest Grandee’, London Magazine, 1 February 1999, 50–5
McLynn, Frank, ‘The
Mouse Roars’ New Statesman, 19 April 1999, 47–8; dismissive
Perry, Seamus, Wordsworth
Circle 31 no. 4 (Fall 2000), 179–80; recommended (‘the sweep and energy of
the thing is wonderful; it makes its belated appearance in Romantic criticism
like some great ruined wonder from before the flood’, 80, concluding words)
Schmidt, J., Journal
of the History of Philosophy 38 no. 3 (2000), 451–2
Xu Youyu, ’Bolin
lun Langmanzhuyi: jinian Bolin danchen yibaizhounian’
[‘Berlin on Romanticism: In memory of Berlin at His Centenary’], Shanghai
Review of Books, in Dongfang Zaobao [Dongfang Daily (the
eastern daily)], 8 February 2009
Xu was a member of
the Chinese Academy of Social Science. He studied at Wolfson College, Oxford,
1986–88 under Michael Dummett, but did not meet IB. In the review he claims
that for Chinese intellectuals and general readers , IB‘s novelty and strong
influence consist in his distinction between negative and positive liberty. He
disagrees with IB at some points – for example, he does not think Kant was one
of the fathers of Romanticism. But he applauds the fact that so many Chinese
translations of IB’s books have been published in the new century, because in
his opinion, thanks to these translations, Chinese readers can get to know the
whole range of IB’s thought, and at the same time deepen their understanding of
Western civilisation by studying IB.
2nd. ed., foreword
by John Gray (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press); adds an appendix
containing letters (280) on the Mellon Lectures
244 ‘La reputacion de Vico’, trans. by Enrique Bocardo Crespo of review
of Peter Burke, Vico, in Pablo Badillo O’Farrell and Enrique Bocardo
Crespo (eds), Isaiah Berlin: la mirada despierta de la historia (Madrid,
1999: Tecnos), 17–18; original English version, ‘The Reputation of Vico’,
published in New Vico Studies 17 (1999), 1–5, and repr. in TCE2
244a ‘Una
testimonianza di Isaiah Berlin’, in Franco Ratto (ed.), All’ombra di Vico:
testimonianze e saggi vichiani in ricordo di Giorgio Tagliacozzo (Via
Cellini, 1999: Sestante)
2000
245 The Power of
Ideas, ed. Henry Hardy (London, 2000: Chatto and Windus; Princeton, 2000:
Princeton University Press; London, 2001: Pimlico) (reprints of 27, 43, 52,
54a, 55, 62, 63, 65, 78, 85, 102, 103, 111, 113, 115, 127, 221, 240, together
with 248); trans. German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
2nd. ed., foreword by Avishai Margalit (Princeton, 2013:
Princeton University Press); adds an appendix containing 94a, 260 and 273a
246 Three Critics
of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder, ed. Henry Hardy (London, 2000:
Pimlico; Princeton, 2000: Princeton University Press) (reprints of 148, with
revisions to the Vico material, and 212, with the English original of the
Foreword to the German edition); trans. Chinese, Greek
2nd. ed., foreword
by Jonathan Israel (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press); adds an
appendix containing reprints of 130, ‘The Workings of Providence’ from 152,
244, a passage on Hamann’s origins excluded from 212 (274), and letters (281)
on Vico and Hamann
247 ‘Herzen: A
Preacher of the Truth’, in Giovanna Calebich Creazza, Aleksandr Ivanovic
Herzen: profezia e tradizione (Naples, 2000: CUEN), 39–40
249 Letter
to Anand Chandavarkar on Keynes and anti-Semitism, in Anand Chandavarkar, ‘Was
Keynes anti-Semitic?’, Economic and Political Weekly, 6 May 2000,
1619–24, at 1623; repr. in part at L4 490–2
2001
250 ‘A Visit to
Leningrad’ (1945), The Times Literary Supplement, 23 March 2001, 13–15;
repr. in L1 and SM; trans. Catalan, Italian, Russian (in part)
250a ‘A Sense of Impending Doom’ (1935; original title ‘Literature and
the Crisis’), The Times Literary Supplement, 27 July2001, 11–12
250b ‘The State of Psychology in 1936’ (1936), History and Philosophy
of Psychology 3 no. 1 (2001), 76–83
250c ‘Notes on
Prejudice’ (1981), New York Review of Books, 18 October 2001, 12; repr.
in L, in Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein (eds), Striking Terror:
America’s New War (New York, 2002: New York Review Books), and, as ‘Notes
on Prejudice and Fanaticism’, Australian Financial Review, 12 October
2001, Review section, 4; trans. Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish
250d
Letter and memorandum to David Ben-Gurion (23 January 1959; in Hebrew
translation) in Eliezer Ben Rafael, with Yosef Gorny and Shalom Ratzbi (eds), Zehuyot
Yehudiyot: Teshuvot hakhmei Yisrael le-Ben-Gurion (Sede Boqer, 2001:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press), 160–6; repr. (in English) in Eliezer
Ben Rafael (ed.), Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben Gurion
(Leiden/Boston, 2002: Brill), 168–76, as Isaiah Berlin and David Ben-Gurion,
‘Religion, Identity, and the State’, New Republic, 1–15 January 2007,
23–8, and in L2; the letter was also included, in its original English
form, in two earlier mimeographed pamphlets – the first of these
(untitled) was produced by the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem in 1959,
and not continuously paginated; the second appeared in 1969 under the title Miqra’a
be-inyan ‘Mi Yehudi’: Qovets teshuvot shel hakhmei Yisrael ve-nispahim [‘A
Reader on “ Who Is a Jew?” : A Collection of Answers by Jewish Intellectuals,
with Appendices’] (Berlin’s letter is on pp. 78–82)
2002
251 Freedom and its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty (1952;
‘brilliant broadcast lectures’: [E. H. Carr,] The Times Literary Supplement,
9 January 1953, 25), ed. Henry Hardy (London, 2002: Chatto & Windus;
Princeton, 2002: Princeton University Press); lecture on Helvétius excerpted as
‘The Art of Being Ruled: Helvétius, Happiness and the Scientists’, The Times
Literary Supplement, 15 February 2002, 14–16; lecture on Saint-Simon
excerpted and abridged as ‘Henri de Saint-Simon’, Romulus, June 2002,
16–21; trans. Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian
Reviews
Cherniss, Joshua,
‘Philosophers and Freedom: 6 Essays by Isaiah Berlin’, Oxonian Review of
Books 2 no. 2 (Hilary 2003 [misdated variously Michaelmas or Hilary 2002]),
10–12
Cherniss, Joshua,
review of FIB and PSM, History of European Ideas 31
(2005), 512–17
Dunachie, Findlay,
‘Isaiah Berlin Lectures on Liberty and Romanticism’, review of FIB and RR,
samizdata.net
blog, 14 September 2004
2nd. ed., foreword
by Enrique Krauze (Princeton, 2014: Princeton University Press); adds an
appendix containing draft material for ‘Two
Concepts of Liberty’ (see 282, 283)
252 Liberty, ed. Henry Hardy, with an essay on Berlin and his
critics by Ian Harris (Oxford and New York, 2002: Oxford University Press)
(253, with other writings on liberty: reprints of 221, 241a, 240 [excerpts],
241 and 250c, together with 254); trans. Chinese, Spanish
253 ‘Five Essays on
Liberty’, ed. Henry Hardy (second edition of 112, with reprint of 93 added), in
L
254 A Letter to
George Kennan (1951), in L; repr. as ‘A Letter to George Kennan: On Human
Dignity’, New Republic, 28 January 2002, 23–6
254a Letters to
Robert Craft in his An Improbable Life: Memoirs (Nashville, 2002:
Vanderbilt University Press)
2003
254a ‘Isaiah Berlin
aan Marion en Felix Frankfurter’ (letter of 7–8 December 1934), trans. into
Dutch by Jan Willem Reitsma, Nexus 37 (2003), 177–85; English original
at L1 104–10
2004
255 Flourishing:
Letters 1928–1946, ed. Henry Hardy (London, 2004: Chatto &
Windus); published in the USA as Letters 1928–1946 (New York, 2004:
Cambridge University Press)
256 The Soviet
Mind: Russian Culture under Communism, ed. Henry Hardy, foreword by Strobe
Talbott (Washington, 2004: Brookings Institution Press)
Reviews
Ferrell, Jason, Slavic
and East European Journal 49 no. 4 (Winter 2005), 684–5
Watson, George, ‘The
Failure of History’, The Times Higher Education, 5
November 2009, 38, 40–1 (incorporates a review)
2nd ed. (Washington,
2016: Brookings Classics, Brookings Institution Press); adds 287 and 288
258a ‘A Letter on
Human Nature’ (1986), part of a letter to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, New
York Review of Books, 23 September 2004, 26; repr. in CTH2 (as ‘Letter to
Beata Polanowska-Sygulska on Human Nature’) and at L4 278–81
259 ‘Why the Soviet
Union Chooses to Insulate Itself’ (1946), in SM, 90–97
260 ‘Woodrow Wilson on Education’ (1959), Oxford Magazine, no.
225, Noughth Week, Trinity Term 2004, 3–8; repr. forthcoming in Research in
Comparative and International Education 7 no. 3 (2012); repr. in POI2
261
Contribution (written 1 March 1991) to Jean Moorcroft Wilson and Cecil Woolf
(eds), Authors Take Sides on Iraq and the Gulf War (London, 2004: Cecil
Woolf Publishers), 106–7:
I was in
favour of armed force.
Unless there are very long, very patient, very skilful and painful negotiations between governments, minorities etc. until at least the rudiments of a possible solution emerge, a general conference could not succeed in arriving at anything like ‘lasting peace and stability in the Middle East’.
Unless there are very long, very patient, very skilful and painful negotiations between governments, minorities etc. until at least the rudiments of a possible solution emerge, a general conference could not succeed in arriving at anything like ‘lasting peace and stability in the Middle East’.
262 (unattributed,
and with posthumous revisions) ‘Sir
Stuart Hampshire’ (obituary), The Times, 16 June
2004, 32 (56 in tabloid edition)
263 Part of a letter
(28 June 1958) to Rowland Burdon-Muller, in Lewis Owens, ‘“ Like a Chemist from
Canada” : Shostakovich in Oxford 1958’, DSCH Journal no. 21 (July 2004),
20–6, at 24–5; repr. at L2 637–41
263a (with Charles
Blattberg) ‘An
Exchange with Professor Sir Isaiah Berlin’
264 (with Meyer Schapiro) ‘Isaiah Berlin and Meyer Schapiro: An
Exchange’ (on Bernard Berenson: includes unsent letter from IB to Encounter,
21 January 1961 [repr. at L3 25–7], and letter from IB to Shapiro, 13 February
1961), Brooklyn Rail, September 2004, 14–15
2005
265 Letters to Andrzej Walicki in Andrzej Walicki (ed.), Russia,
Poland and Marxism: Isaiah Berlin to Andrzej Walicki 1962–1996 [Dialogue
and Universalism 15 no. 9–10/2005], 53–173; some repr. in L3 and L4;
reviewed by Lesley Chamberlain in The Times Literary Supplement, 10
March 2006, 22
265a Letter of 16/17
June 1981 to Lidiya Chukovskaya in E[lena] Ts[ezarevna] Chukovskaya (ed.),
‘ “Skolko lyudei! – I vse zhivye”: otzyvy chitatelei o Zapisak ob Anne
Akhmatovoi Lidii Chukovskoi’ [‘ “So many people! – And all alive!”:
Readers’ Responses to Lidiya Chukovsky’s Notes on Anna Akhmatova’], Znamya
2005 no. 8, 165–6; English translation of excerpt at L4 622
2006
266 Political Ideas in the Romantic Age:
Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought, ed. Henry Hardy, with
an introduction by Joshua L. Cherniss (London, 2006: Chatto and Windus;
Princeton, 2006: Princeton University Press); trans. Italian, Portuguese;
excerpt trans. Spanish
Review
European Legacy 12 no. 5 (August 2007), 607–9
2nd. ed. (Princeton, 2014: Princeton University Press); adds an appendix
containing the delivery text of ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ (284)
267 (with Beata Polanowska-Sygulska) Unfinished Dialogue (New York,
2006: Prometheus Books); excerpts trans. Polish
Review
2007
268 (in Spanish translation) ‘Dos cartas sobre México’ [‘Two letters on
Mexico’ (excerpts)], Letras Libres, December 2007, 70–1; English original of
excerpts from one letter at L3 356–7
2008
269 ‘What Is Freedom?’, Romulus 2008: Freedom, 2
2009
270 Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960, ed. Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes
(London, 2009, Chatto and Windus); letter of 28 June 1958 to Rowland
Burdon-Muller repr. as ‘Shostakovich at Oxford’, New York Review of Books, 16
July 2009, 22–3 (see also item 263 above), and in facsimile in Stephen Hebron,
Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries
(Oxford, 2014: Bodleian Library Publishing), cat. 80, 237–41 at 238–41; other
extracts in Prospect, June 2009, 80
Review
Herman, David, ‘The Two Faces of Isaiah’, reviews of L2 and BI,
Salmagundi Nos 166–7 (Spring–Summer 2010), 224–36
271 Letters to Lydia Chukovskaya, in Elena Chukovskaya (ed.), ‘“... esli by vdrug pozvonil Evgenii Onegin ili Taras Bul´ ba”:
perepiska sera Isaii Berlina s Lidiei Chukovskoi’ [‘“... if you have suddenly been phoned by Eugene
Onegin or Taras Bulba”: The Correspondence of Sir Isaiah Berlin and Lydia
Chukovskaya’], Novyi Mir 2009 no. 12 (December 2009), 148–72; English
translations of parts of some letters in L3 and L4
2010
272 ‘The End of the Ideal of the Perfect Society’ (1975), in Jorge
Geraldo Ramí rez, Isaiah Berlin: utopí a, tragedia y pluralismo (Medellí n,
2010: Fondo Editorial Universidad Eafit), 12–83 (English text facing the
editor’s Spanish translation)
2013
273 Building: Letters 1960–1975, ed. Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle
(London, 2013: Chatto and Windus); letter of 17 October 1962 to Aline Berlin
repr. as ‘The Important Young Man’, New Republic, 11 February 2013, 53–4
273a ‘Democracy, Communism and the Individual’, in POI2
274 ‘Hamann’s Origins’, in TCE2
275 ‘My Philosophical Views’ (first draft of 229), in the appendix to
CC2
276 (Extracts from) letters to Leon Edel, R. Errera, the editor of the
New York Review of Books, Lincoln Schuster, H. Paul Simon, Shiela Sokolov Grant
and Edmund Wilson, in the appendix to HF2
277 ‘Made of Wax after All’: (extracts from) letters to Henry Hardy on
whether to publish what became 158, in the appendix to CC2
278 (Extracts from) letters to Joseph Alsop, Jean Floud and A. J. P.
Taylor on Machiavelli, to Omar Haliq on Moses Hess and Zionism, to Sidney
Morgenbesser on pluralism, freedom and determinism, and to Sidney Hook on
various topics, in the appendix to AC2
279 Letters to Alain Besançon and Piero Gastaldo on Joseph de Maistre,
and to Geert Van Cleemput on nationalism, in the appendix to CTH2
280 (Extracts from) letters to P. H. Newby, Helen Rapp and John Walker
on his Mellon Lectures, in the appendix to RR2
281 Letters to Quentin Skinner on Vico, and to Gwen Griffith Dickson and
Mark Lilla on Hamann, in the appendix to TCE2
282 Five early drafts of ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’; the first and third drafts, and parts of others,
are incorporated into the appendix to FIB2
2014
284 ‘The Concise “Two Concepts of Liberty”: What Isaiah Berlin Said on 31 October 1958’
(delivery text of IB’s inaugural lecture), in PIRA2
285 ‘A Message to the 21st Century’ (acceptance speech at the University
of Toronto, 25 November 1994), New York Review of Books, 23 October 2014, 37;
repr. in L4; trans. Italian
2015
286 Affirming: Letters 1975–1997, ed. Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle
(London, 2015: Chatto and Windus); extracts in The Times Literary Supplement
(‘Among Important Persons: Isaiah Berlin Looks Back’, 21 & 28 August 2015,
14–16) and the New York Review of Books (‘The Unique Qualities of Joe Alsop’, 8
October 2015, 38, 40)
Reviews
Bogdanor, Vernon, ‘Prophet of the open society’, Daily Telegraph, 24
October 2015, 30
Davenport-Hines, Richard, ‘Never Again’, The Times Literary Supplement,
14 October 2015, 3–4
Ffrench, Andrew, ‘Real man of letters’, Oxford Times, 1 October 2015, 57
Herman, David, ‘In His Own Words’, Jewish Quarterly, Winter 2015, 56–61;
a fuller version is available online
Herman, David, ‘Thinking by Post’, New Statesman, October 2015, 49
2016
287 ‘Marxist versus Non-Marxist Ideas in
Soviet Policy’ (1952), in SM2
288 ‘Communism: Summary of Mr Berlin’s Speech’
(late 1940s), in SM2
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