The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue
Works on IBDemontis, Luca, ‘ “The Mad Dream of Sociology”: Isaiah Berlin e le scienze sociali’, Ph.D. thesis, Fondazione Collegio San Carlo di Modena (2018)
Works on IBWorthington, Michelle, ‘The Pluralist Corporation’, Ph.D. thesis, ANU, 2018
Works on IBMore Flourishing - supplementary letters 1928-1946
An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Flourishing: Letters 1928-1946 (London, 2004: Chatto & Windus; London, 2005)
- First posted 20 January 2019
- Last updated (i.e. this edition) 2 February 2024
The four published volumes of Berlin's letters focus on the outgoing letters, i.e. those written by him. Where we have the other side of the correspondence, and have been able to secure the necessary copyright permission, the online supplements will now also include a selection of the more important letters written to Berlin.
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BibliographySupplement to Flourishing: Letters 1928–1946, "What about Daphne?" Correspondence with H. G. Nicholas 1942–1945
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BibliographyMore Enlightening - supplementary letters 1946-1960
An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960 (London, 2009, Chatto and Windus; London, 2011: Pimlico)
- First posted 30 January 2019
- Latest updated (i.e. this edition) 23 October 2024
The four published volumes of Berlin's letters focus on the outgoing letters, i.e. those written by him. Where we have the other side of the correspondence, and have been able to secure the necessary copyright permission, the online supplements will now also include a selection of the more important letters written to Berlin.
- This update includes letters from IB to his friend and colleague, the philosopher A. J. 'Freddie' Ayer; to the British philosopher and expert on John Stuart Mill, Karl Britton - about Mill; to his wife, Aline, written in the 1950s; and to David Pryce-Jones, nd 1957, in which he comments on Evelyn Waugh.
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BibliographyMore Building - supplementary letters 1960-1975
An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Building: Letters 1960–1975 (London, 2013: Chatto and Windus; London, 2016: Pimlico)
- First posted 19 December 2019
- Latest updated (i.e. this edition) 25 September 2024
The four published volumes of Berlin's letters focus on the outgoing letters, i.e. those written by him. Where we have the other side of the correspondence, and have been able to secure the necessary copyright permission, the online supplements will now also include a selection of the more important letters written to Berlin - among them, to date, are letters from the Riga-born Harvard philosopher Judith Shklar, and the US diplomat and historian George Kennan.
- Included in this update are two very interesting 1964 letters to the German philosopher and social critic, Theodor Adorno, about (among other things) Covent Garden's production of Moses and Aaron, which IB had championed.
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BibliographyMore Affirming - supplementary letters 1975-1997
An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Affirming: Letters 1975–1997 (London, 2015: Chatto and Windus; London, 2017, Pimlico)
- First posted 18 January 2019
- Last updated (i.e. this edition) 13 April 2024
The four published volumes of Berlin's letters focus on the outgoing letters, i.e. those written by him. Where we have the other side of the correspondence, and have been able to secure the necessary copyright permission, the online supplements will now also include a selection of the more important letters written to Berlin, and where possible those about him:
- Included in this update is a letter (in Hebrew, with an English translation) from the Israeli historian Gavriel (‘Gaby’) Cohen to an unnamed correspondent, n.d., but possibly the Israeli politician and general, Yigal Allon, December 1975, in which Cohen reports on IB's meetings with officials, of varying degrees of seniority, from the US state department, and their view of the likelihood of war between Israel and Syria, and its possible consequences; there are letters here also from the Riga-born Harvard philosopher Judith Shklar, the US diplomat and historian George Kennan, and the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones.
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BibliographySupplement to Affirming: 'More Explaining: Isaiah Berlin on his own ideas'
- Letters and other writings with specific relevance to the understanding of Berlin's thought, which were not included in Affirming
- First posted in Isaiah Berlin Online 18 January 2019
- Last revised (i.e. this edition) 16 October 2021
Bibliography'Music Chronicle' - an online collection of the five articles published in Oxford Outlook 1930–2 under the pseudonym ‘Albert Alfred Apricott’ (‘A.A.A.’ except in the first case)
- i) Oxford Outlook 10 no. 53 (November 1930), 616–27 (see Bib.2(b))
- ii) Oxford Outlook 11 no. 54 (March 1931), 49–53 (see Bib.6)
- iii) Oxford Outlook 11 no. 55 (June 1931), 131–5 (see Bib.7)
- iv) Oxford Outlook 12 no. 57 (February 1932), 61–5 (see Bib.12)
- v) Oxford Outlook 12 no. 58 (May 1932), 133–8 (see Bib.13)
Moments Musicaux: Occasional Essays on Opera (2019): an online collection of musical notes previously published separately as:
- 'Mozart at Glyndebourne' (Bib.186)
- 'Tchaikovsky and Eugene Onegin' (Bib.124)
- 'Khovanshchina' (Bib.89)
- 'Performances memorable — and not so memorable' (Bib.144)
- 'Surtitles' (Bib.192(b) )
See also the more comprehensive collection 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299
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Letters to David Carver and Edward Crankshaw, in Paolo Mancosu, ‘P.E.N. International, Isaiah Berlin, and the Ivinskaya Case’
- from his blog Inside the Zhivago Storm
- see also OA.1245, Paolo Mancosu, ‘P.E.N. International, Isaiah Berlin, and the Ivinskaya Case’
Tutor de Ureta, Andrés, ‘Incompatibility, Incommensurability, and Rationality in Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin’s Case’, European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 24 no. 2 (2019), 146–61
- published online 8 November 2018
Works on IBBlackwell, Kenneth, Giovanni D. De Carvalho and Harry Ruja (introduction by John G. Slater), ‘A Secondary Bibliography of A History Of Western Philosophy, part I: Extracted Reviews in English’, Russell n.s. 39 (Summer 2019), 73–96 at 77–8
Wahl, Russell, ‘The Reception of Russell’s A History Of Western Philosophy’, Russell n.s. 39 (Summer 2019), 46–56, esp. 49–50
Blattberg, Charles, ‘Taking Politics Seriously – But Not Too Seriously’, Philosophy 94, no. 2 (April 2019), 271–94
Works on IBBrandis, George, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Defence of Liberty’, Conservative History Journal 2 no. 7 (Autumn 2019), 18–22
- the 2019 Isaiah Berlin Lecture at the Latvian Embassy, London
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Works on IBButin, Alexis, ‘Isaiah Berlin et la Révolution romantique au Royaume-Uni’, in Élizabeth Durot-Boucé (ed.), Boomerang: D’idées et de désirs (Rennes, 2019: Travaux d’Investigation et de Recherche), 155–72
Works on IBCoser, Ivo, ‘Dois Conceitos de Liberdade: 60 anos após a sua publicação’ [‘Two Concepts of Liberty: Sixty Years after Its Publication’], Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 34 no. 100 (21 pp.)
Works on IBCoser, Ivo, ‘Lei, liberdade e diversidade de fins no pluralismo de valores’ [‘Law, Freedom and the Diversity of Ends in Value Pluralism’], Lua Nova (São Paulo) 107 (May–August 2019), 169–202
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