The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

To browse articles on IB simply enter 'OA' in Bib Reference box above; 'OB' for books; and 'OT' for theses.
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OA.1127

Riley, Jonathan, ‘Isaiah Berlin’s “Minimum of Common Moral Ground” ’, Political Theory 41 no. 1 (2013), 61–89

  • 'This important paper is a definitive milestone in Berlin studies. Riley has an uncannily accurate perception of what IB believed, even when IB doesn’t express it clearly himself. He raises and answers convincingly a number of questions which must surely bother anyone who reads IB with care. In particular he gives the first satisfying account of IB’s apparently paradoxical claim that pluralists can empathise with conduct that they nevertheless wish to resist, if necessary to the death.' (Henry Hardy)
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OA.1128

Ryan, Alan, ‘Isaiah Berlin: The History of Ideas as Psychodrama’, European Journal of Political Theory 12 no. 1 (2013), 24–30

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OA.1129

Sanfey, Michael, ‘Machiavelli: The Enduring Lure of an Evil Genius’, Irish Times, 10 December 2013

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OA.1130

Vējš, Jānis N., ‘National Identity: Some Cues from Isaiah Berlin’, in Ethnicity: Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Studies 1 (2013) no. 8, 31–9

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OA.1131

Walzer, Michael, ‘Should We Reclaim Political Utopianism?’, European Journal of Political Theory 12 no. 1 (2013), 61–73

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OA.1132

Yack, Bernard, ‘The Significance of Isaiah Berlin’s Counter-Enlightenment’, European Journal of Political Theory 12 no. 1 (2013), 49–60

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OA.1133

Zakaras, Alex, ‘A Liberal Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and John Stuart Mill’, Review of Politics 75 no. 1 (2013), 69–96

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OA.1134

Zakaras, Alex, ‘Reply to Galston and Crowder’, Review of Politics 75 no. 1 (2013), 111–14

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OB.45
Baum, Bruce and Robert Nichols (eds), Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later (New York and London, 2013: Routledge)
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OB.46

Cherniss, Joshua L., A Mind and Its Time: The Development of Isaiah Berlin’s Political Thought (Oxford, 2013: Oxford University Press)

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OB.47

Caute, David, Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic (New Haven and London, 2013: Yale University Press)

  • The 'Isaac' is the historian, biographer (of Trotsky and Stalin) and activist Isaac Deutscher, whom IB loathed
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OT.42

Albert, Simon, ‘The Wartime “Special Relationship”, 1941–45: Isaiah Berlin, Freya Stark and Mandate Palestine’, MSc thesis, LSE (2013)

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OT.43

Drugge, Oskar Daniel, ‘Moral Conflict, Tragedy and Political Action in Isaiah Berlin’s Political Thought’, Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia (2013)

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OT.44

Grieco, Pasquale, ‘La Filosofia della Libertà di Isaiah Berlin’ (‘Isaiah Berlin’s Philosophy of Liberty’), BA thesis, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 2013

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OT.45

Shen, Ming-Cong, 'Anti-Procrustean Liberalism: On Isaiah Berlin’s Anti-Monist Philosophy and Political Thought’, Ph.D. thesis, National Yat-Sen University (2013)

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B.112

Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin: The Price of a Conversation

  • Russian radio report
  • Series: Above the Barriers: American Hour
  • First transmission: 2 June 2014
  • Duration: (whole programme) 28 minutes 18 seconds; (section on AA and IB) 5 minutes, from 13:22 to 18:22
  • Presenter: Aleksandr Genis
  • Recording: Podster
Broadcasts
B.113

Sir Isaiah

  • Russian TV report (First Latvian Channel) on the 2014 IB Day in Riga
  • Posted: 4 June 2014
  • Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds
  • Reporters: Tatiana Kovalenko, Spartaka Lukashevicha
  • Recording: YouTube
  • Publication: for the proceedings of the whole event see official website
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B.113(a)

Bowen and Betjeman

  • Radio play by John Banville; IB played by Nick Dunning
  • First transmission: 14/2/2014, BBC Radio4
  • Duration: 45 minutes
  • Repeat: 4.15 pm, 21/3/2016, BBC Radio 4
  • Author: John Banville
  • Producer Gemma McMullan

Summary

  • Award-winning novelist John Banville imagines an encounter between Elizabeth Bowen and John Betjeman as they meet for luncheon in a Dublin hotel during the Second World War. As their conversation ranges over their lives, their loves, their politics, we are given a portrait of wartime Dublin and London and of the place of the artist in a world at war.
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Bib.283

‘ “Two Concepts of Liberty”: Early Texts’, incorporating some of Bib.282 (q.v.), in Freedom and its Betrayal (2nd ed., 2014)

Bibliography
Bib.284

‘The Concise “Two Concepts of Liberty”: What Isaiah Berlin Said on 31 October 1958’ (delivery text of IB’s inaugural lecture), in Political Ideas in the Romantic Age (2nd. ed., Princeton, 2014)

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