The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Hama, Shinichiro, ‘Berlin Jiyuron no Keisei: Rousseau to Kant no Kaishaku wo megutte’ [‘The Early Formation of Berlin’s Argument about Liberty: With Reference to His Arguments about Rousseau and Kant’], in T. Tsunoda, Y. Ichihara and H. Kamemoto (eds), Horiron wo meguru Gendaiteki Syomondai [Current Issues in Legal Theory] (Kyoto, 2016: Koyoshobo)

Herman, David, ‘In Today’s Turbulent World We Need Berlin’s Children’, Standpoint, May 2016

• View document, below, for PDF - both excerpt, and full article

Hiruta, Kei, ‘An “Anti-Utopian Age?”: Isaiah Berlin’s England, Hannah Arendt’s America, and Utopian Thinking in Dark Times’, Journal of Political Ideologies, published online 18 November 2016, in print 22 (2017) no. 1, 12–29

Kemper, Nicholas, ‘The Hideous Duty of Isaiah Berlin’, AA Files no. 72 (2016), 127–33

• an interesting article by an architecture student on the choice of architects for Wolfson College, Oxford

Kobrin, Kirill, ‘The Redundant Authors of Russian Liberalism’, Nastoyashchee vremya, published online 2016

• this article is in Russian

Mancosu, Paolo, Zhivago’s Secret Journey: From Typescript to Book (Stanford, 2016: Hoover Institution Press)

• contains extensive discussion of Berlin’s role in the transmission of the text and the publication of Pasternak's masterpiece

Schmidt, James, ‘Robert Wokler, J. G. A. Pocock, and the Hunt for an Eighteenth-Century Usage of “Counter-Enlightenment” ’, Persistent Enlightenment (blog), 12 October 2016

• see also other posts, discoverable by searching for ‘Isaiah Berlin’

Smith, Steven B., ‘The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin’, chapter 13 (267–89) of Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow (New Haven and London, 2016: Yale University Press)

• IB is also mentioned elsewhere in the book

Tamir, Yuli, ‘Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997): Unpretentious Passion’, in Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal (eds), Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made (Princeton, 2016: Princeton University Press), 480–92

Tīrons, Uldis, ‘Naiman kak Nikto: s poetom Anatoliem Naimanom beseduet Uldis Tirons’, Rīgas Laiks (Russian edition), Summer 2016, 70–81

• an interview with Anatoly Naiman, who gave the Isaiah Berlin Lecture in Riga on 9 June 2016 (watch here)
• Latvian translation, ‘Naimans kā Neviens: ar dzejnieku Anatoliju Naimanu sarunajas Uldis Tīrons’, Rīgas Laiks (Latvian edition), June 2016, 20–31
• a Latvian translation of an except from Naiman’s Ser follows

Brockliss, Laurence, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment (Oxford, 2016: Oxford University Press)

• contributions to a conference of the same title held at Wolfson College, Oxford, 20–22 March 2014

Review:

• Blattberg, Charles, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 21 March 2017

Granovskaya [previously Martynenko], Ol'ga Leonidovna,‘Intellektual'noe nasledie I. Berlina i antinomii liberal'noi filosofii vtoroi poloviny XX veka (istoriko-filosofskii analiz)’ [‘Berlin’s Political Thought and the Antinomies of Liberal Philosophy in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century]’ (Historical and Philosophical Analysis)’, PhD thesis, Moscow State Pedagogical University, 2016

Páez Lancheros, Mario, ‘Las fronteras del pluralismo liberal: la versión romántico-agonista del liberalismo en Isaiah Berlin’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Chile (2016)

Villaro Mañes, María I. [Mariona Gumpert],‘Bases epistemológicas y antropológicas de la filosofía de Isaiah Berlin’, Ph.D. thesis, Navarra (2016)

Missing Isaiah Berlin

• 'Sir Isaiah Berlin died 20 years ago. Where are the Berlins of today? Jonathan Wolff asks.'
• Examination of the role of the public intellectual, to mark the 20th anniversary of Berlin’s death in 1997
• First transmission: 8.00 pm 4/11/17 BBC Radio 4
• Duration: 58 minutes
• Series: Archive on 4
• Presenter: Jonathan Wolff
• Speakers: Stefan Collini, Daniel Drezner, Claire Fox, Timothy Garton Ash, Henry Hardy, Mary Warnock
• Recording: BBC Sounds

Producer: Dom Byrne, Blakeway Productions

(in Chinese translation) Letter to Harry Jaffa, 24 May 1992, translated and with a commentary by Ma Hualing, Dushu [Reading] 2017 no. 3 (March), 73–82

• about the difference between Berlin’s views and those of Leo Strauss
• the English original is published online in More Affirming - supplementary letters 1975-1997

Butin, Alexis, ‘Isaiah Berlin: A Twentieth-Century Thinker’

• based on a paper presented at an international seminar on IB’s negative and positive freedom on 29 May 2017 at Université Paris II
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Butin, Alexis, ‘Isaiah Berlin: un intellectuel britannique engagé pour la liberté’, Mentalities/Mentalités 29 no. 4 (2017), 12 pp.

Chanyshev, A. A., ‘Leo Shtraus i Isaiya Berlin o ponimanii klassicheskikh tekstov’ [‘Leo Strauss and Isaiah Berlin on Understanding Classical Texts’], in A. I. Voloshin and others (eds), Schola-2017: Politicheskaya tekstologiya i istoriya iei [Schola-2017: Political Textology and the History of ideas] (Moscow, 2017: Moscow University Press), 566–71

Cherniss, Joshua L., ‘Liberal Understanding for Troubled Times: Isaiah Berlin’s Insights and Our Moment of Populist Revolt’, Critique, 15 January 2017