The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Interview with Göran Rosenberg

• An interview with Göran Rosenberg of the Swedish monthly periodical Moderna Tider (the last filmed interview with IB)
• Recording date: 3/2/97
• First transmission: 10.10 pm 21/5/98 Swedish Television
• Duration: 48 minutes
• Series: Thinkers of Our Time
• Producer: Göran Rosenberg
• Presenter: Göran Rosenberg
• Transcript: Göran Rosenberg
• Recording: Swedish TV; BLSA Tape [to come]

Den sista av sitt slag [The Last of His Kind]: a panel discussion on Isaiah Berlin on Sveriges Radio (Radio Sweden), presented and produced by Per Runesson, July 1998

• ‘Programme [in two parts] about Isaiah Berlin, philosopher, historian and conversationalist. Isaiah Berlin, who died in 1997, was a speaker and thinker who questioned many of the foundations of philosophy. Conversation with two biographers and several friends of Berlin.’ The presenter and one participant speak in Swedish, the English interviewees in English.
• First transmission: 6.15 p.m. 16/7/98 and 23/7/98, Kulturradion, Sverigesradio P1
• Duration: part 1, 43 minutes, 20 seconds; part 2, 43 minutes 33 seconds
• Presenter, Editor and Producer: Per Runesson
• Translation of Swedish: Niklas Magee Mateluna, Henry Hardy (who also transcribed the English), Per Runesson
• English-speaking participants: Roger Hausheer, Michael Ignatieff, Aileen Kelly, Bryan Magee
• Swedish-speaking participant: Svante Nordin
• Recording: part 1 | part 2

View document, below, for a transcript in English (produced by Henry Hardy)

In Our Time

• Michael Ignatieff, IB’s biographer, interviewed about IB by Melvyn Bragg in the first episode of In Our Time
• First transmission: 9.02 am 15/10/98 BBC Radio 4
• Repeat: 9.30 pm 15/10/98 BBC Radio 4
• Duration: 30 minutes (whole programme; parts of the programme are devoted to an interview with the historian Michael Howard)
• Series: In Our Time
• Presenter: Melvyn Bragg
• Recording: BBC

‘My Intellectual Path’ (with Bib.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), The Power of Ideas and Liberty (in part)
• excerpted as ‘One Man’s Pursuit of Perfection’, Guardian, 9 October 1999, A5
• 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

‘The Purpose Justifies the Ways’ (1922) (with Bib.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)
• in Liberty
• trans. Catalan, German, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese

‘A Turning-Point in Political Thought’, Common Knowledge 7 no. 3 (Winter 1998), 186–214

• repr. in Liberty as ‘The Birth of Greek Individualism: A Turning-Point in the History of Political Thought’
• trans Spanish

Foreword to Jenifer Hart, Ask Me No More: An Autobiography (London, 1998: Peter Halban), xi–xviii

(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 Affirming

‘A Letter to Elizabeth Bowen’ (1933), Oxford Magazine 156 (Eighth Week, Trinity Term, 1998), 8–9

• repr. at Flourishing 70–3

ed. with Herman Branover and Zeev Wagner, The Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry: Biographies A–I (Northvale, NJ, 1998: Jason Aronson)

Dabney, Lewis M., ‘The Philosopher and the Critic’, New York Times Book Review, 29 November 1998, 31

• excerpts from ‘Isaiah Berlin on Edmund Wilson’, Wilson Quarterly 23 no. 1 (Winter 1999), 38–49 (photo by Arnold Newman)

Amory, Mark, Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (London, 1998: Chatto and Windus), esp. 183–4

Baldini, Enzo, ‘Berlin e Machiavelli’, Il Pensiero Politico 31 (1998), 124–9

Billington, James H., contribution to ‘An American Remembrance’ of Isaiah Berlin held at the British Embassy in Washington on 28 January 1998

• repr. as one of three biographical memoirs of IB in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 150 no. 4 (December 2006), 663–72, at 664–6
• for PDF transcript View Document (below)

Capaldi, Nicholas, The Enlightenment Project and Analytical Conversation (Kluer, 1998), scattered references

Crittenden, Brian, ‘Interpreting Multiculturalism: Does Berlin’s Theory of Cultural Pluralism Help?’, Newsletter (of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia) 17 no. 2 (1998), 30–7

Crowder, George, ‘From Value Pluralism to Liberalism’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 1 no. 3 (1998) (‘Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality’)

• repr. as ‘From Pluralism to Liberalism’ in Richard Bellamy and Martin Hollis (eds), Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality (London, 1999: Frank Cass), 2–18

Crowder, George, ‘Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Pluralism and Liberalism’, in A. Bianchini, J. Dolby and M. Holland (eds), Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association and European Union Studies Association of New Zealand (Christchurch, 1998: APSA/EUS/ANZ), vol. 1: refereed papers, 198–208

Crowder, George, ‘John Gray’s Pluralist Critique of Liberalism’, Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (1998), 287–98

Dawidoff, Nicholas, ‘Shura and Shaya: An Afternoon with Sir Isaiah Berlin’, The American Scholar 67 no. 2 (1998), 101–4