The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

What About Daphne? Correspondence with H. G. Nicholas - An interim working Glossary of Proper Names

Four Lectures on Russian Historicism

A collection of the unpublished transcripts of four versions of a talk, those being:

1. Bib.101(b) ‘The Addiction of Russian Intellectuals to Historicism’ (1962)
2. B.37(a) 'The Russian Preoccupation with Historicism' (1967)
3. B.42(a) 'The Russian Obsession with History and Historicism' (1971)
4. B.53 'The Russian Preoccupation with History' (1974)

‘The Israel Letters’ (letters to Bob Silvers, from the New York Review of Books archive), ed. David Herman, Jewish Quarterly, May 2021, 67–87

• The letters span 1967 to 1984
• They can be found in the relevant online supplements to the Letters, i.e.

1. More Building: supplementary letters 1960–1975
2. More Affirming: supplementary letters 1975–1997

Ackroyd, John, ‘The Deepest Strand: Isaiah Berlin and the Intellectual History of Russia’, Central and Eastern European Review 14 (2020), 34 pp.

• View Document (below) for the abstract

de Bolla, Peter, and others, ‘The Idea of Liberty, 1600–1800: A Distributional Concept Analysis’, Journal of the History of Ideas 81 no. 3 (July 2020), 381–406

Ferrell, Jason, ‘Isaiah Berlin on Monism’, in G. Callahan and K. B. McIntyre (eds), Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism (London, 2020: Palgrave Macmillan), 237–49

Jeffrey Friedman (ed.), Symposium on Isaiah Berlin, Critical Review 32 (2020) no. 4

• Later published as Friedman, Jeffrey (ed.), Isaiah Berlin (Abingdon and New York, 2022: Routledge) (i.e. OB.74)

Hardy, Henry, ‘Hardy on Polanowska-Sygulska on Hardy on Berlin on Pluralism and Religion’

• A reply to a review of Henry Hardy’s In Search of Isaiah Berlin
• Both the review and the reply are in Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Spolecznej 2019 no. 2, 89–99 (in English), and a further exchange appears in ibid. 2020 no. 3, 127–32
• The review and reply, and the further exchanges, in Archiwum Filozofiiare can be read here in PDF ('View Document' below)

Hart, David Bentley, ‘Isaiah Berlin’ (letters), The Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 2020, 6; 17 July 2020, 6

Hiruta, Kei, ‘Value Pluralism, Realism and Pessimism’, Res Publica (2020)

• published online 20 May 2020

Krishnan, Nikhil, ‘Gift to Humanity: The Life-Work of Isaiah Berlin, the Non-Philosopher’s Philosopher’, The Times Literary Supplement, 15 May 2020, 10–11

Lenhard, Philipp, ‘The Many Shades of Light: Isaiah Berlin, the Counter-Enlightenment, and the Haskalah’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 3 December 2020

Lyons, Johnny, 'Discovering Isaiah Berlin: Johnny Lyons in conversation with Henry Hardy, June 2019'

• A filmed interview with Henry Hardy, with the focus on Isaiah Berlin, made by Johnny Lyons
• Available on YouTube in short (1 hour) and long (2 hour) versions
• View Document (below) for transcript

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata (ed.), Społeczeństwo otwarte, społeczeństwo zamknięte: eseje i szkice (Open Society, Closed Society: Essays and Sketches) (Kraków, 2020: Księgarnia Akademicka)

Dimova-Cookson, Maria, Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (London, 2020: Routledge)

Granovskaya, O. L., D. N. Drozdova and A. M. Rutkevich, Perekrestki kul´tur: Aleksandr Koire, Aleksandr Kozhev, Isaiya Berlin [Cultures at the Crossroads: Alexandre Koyré, Alexandre Kojève, Isaiah Berlin] (Moscow, 2020: Rosspen)

• the third part of the book, i.e. Granovskaya’s treatment of IB, is entitled ‘British Liberalism with a Russian Accent’
• NB: the authors are misleadingly styled as editors by the publisher

Lyons, Johnny, The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin (London, 2020: Bloomsbury)

• Review: David Fott, Interpretation, 47 no. 3 (Summer 2021), 569–73

Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin

• The Ideas Roadshow describes this podcast as ‘An in-depth conversation with Henry Hardy, Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and the author of In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure, about the many joys – and occasional frustrations – of being the principal editor of one of the twentieth century’s most captivating public intellectuals’
• Release date: 15/9/21
• Duration: 2 hours 36 seconds
• Series: Ideas Roadshow
• Presenter: Howard Burton
• Recording: New Books Network

 Memoir of Lady Patricia Douglas, in the online More Affirming - supplementary letters 1975-1997

Blattberg, Charles, ‘Gaps: When Not Even Nothing Is There’, Comparative Philosophy 12 no. 1 (January 2021), 31–55