The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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

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

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

• View document (below) for abstract

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

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

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.

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

‘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)

Abramsky, Sasha, The House of 20,000 Books (London, 2014: Halban)

• references to IB at 34, 74, 103, 115, 116. 117, 131–2, 196
• illustrations between 212 & 213, 214, 259, 261, 263, 275, 293, 296, 197, 308

Chamberlain, Lesley, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Policeman’

• Lesley Chamberlain, writer and critic – blog post

Cherniss, Joshua, ‘Against “Engineers of Human Souls”: Isaiah Berlin’s Anti-Managerial Liberalism’, History of Political Thought 35 no. 3 (Autumn 2014), 565–88

Colen, J. A., ‘The Language of Human Rights: Isaiah Berlin, Raymond Aron and Leo Strauss’, CEPS – Publicações dos investigadores do CEPS

Coser, Ivo, ‘The Concept of Liberty: the Polemic between the Neo-Republicans and Isaiah Berlin’, Brazilian Political Science Review 8 no. 3 (September–December 2014), 39–65

Crowder, George, ‘Conflicting Pluralisms’, European Journal of Political Theory 13 (2014), 488–96

• review of Arie M. Dubnov, Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal, Peter Lassman, Pluralism, and Christopher McMahon, Reasonable Disagreement: A Theory of Political Morality

Crowder, George, ‘Value Pluralism, Diversity and Liberalism’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 18 no. 1, 16 pp.

• published online 20 September 2014

Crowder, George, ‘Value Pluralism and Monotheism’, Politics and Religion 7 no. 4 (December 2014), 818–40

Davidzon, Vladislav, ‘Grande Dame of London Literary World Dies at 99’, Tablet, 10 September 2014

Devellennes, Charles, ‘Choice, Blind Spots and Free Will: An Autopoietic Critique of Isaiah Berlin’s Liberalism’, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 40 no. 9 (November 2014), 895–911

Granovskaya, Olga Leonidovna, ‘Isaiya Berlin: britanskiy liberalizm i russkaya filosofiya (dialog mirovozzreniy)’ [‘Isaiah Berlin: British Liberalism and Russian Philosophy (Dialogue of Worldviews)’] Voprosy filosofii 2014 no. 9, 51–9

Gustavsson, Gina, ‘The Psychological Dangers of Positive Liberty: Reconstructing a Neglected Undercurrent in Isaiah Berlin’s “Two Concepts of Liberty” ’, Review of Politics 76 (2014), 267–91

• reply by George Crowder, ‘Why We Need Positive Liberty’, ibid. 77 no. 2, 271–8
• Gina Gustavsson, ‘Reply to Crowder’, ibid. 279–4