The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Lisle, Kay J., ‘A Fire at Harvard’

• An account of an incident at Harvard, where IB was Ford Visiting Research Fellow September 1962–January 1963, during which IB caused a fire in his rooms; it was extinguished by his secretary Kay Lisle neé DeLuca
• View Document (below) for PDF

Ma Hualing, ‘Three Faces of Positive Liberty: Commemorating Isaiah Berlin’s 110th Birthday’, Exploration and Free Views 354 no. 4 (2019), 140–8

Mancosu, Paolo, ‘P.E.N. International, Isaiah Berlin, and the Ivinskaya Case’

• from his blog Inside the Zhivago Storm
• see also Bib.296, 'Letters to David Carver and Edward Crankshaw', in Paolo Mancosu (etc.)

Mori, Tatsuya, ‘Isaiah Berlin to seijiteki riarizumu no chōryū’ [‘Isaiah Berlin and the Tide of Political Realism’], Seiji tetsugaku [Political Philosophy] 25 (2019), 1–25

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata, ‘The Crucifix Dispute and Value Pluralism’, Analyse & Kritik 41 no. 2 (November 2019), 301–20

• See also OA.1238, George Crowder, ‘Value Pluralism: Crucial Complexities’

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata, ‘Diversity and Decency’, Analyse & Kritik 42 no. 1 (November 2019), 241–54

• reply to George Crowder, ‘Value Pluralism: Crucial Complexities’ (2019) (OA.1238)

Tutor de Ureta, Andrés, ‘Pluralismo sin relativismo: una propuesta alternativa al modelo de Isaiah Berlin’, Revista de Estudios Políticos no. 184 (April–June 2019), 13–40

Crowder, George, The Problem of Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and Beyond (New York, 2019: Routledge)

Müller, Jan-Werner (ed.), Isaiah Berlin’s Cold War Liberalism (London, 2019: Palgrave Pivot)

• essays by the editor, Jan-Werner Müller, Joshua L. Cherniss, and Jonathan Riley

Ma, Hualing, From Freedom to Serfdom: The Debate between Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss (Taipei, 2019: Linking Publishing Co.)

• In Chinese

Bi Xiao, ‘The Intellectual History of Pluralism: From the Counter-Enlightenment to the Russian Golden Age’, Ph.D. thesis, Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, East China Normal University, 2019

• to be published as ‘The Pluralist Venture: Isaiah Berlin’s Issue of Intellectual History and Beyond’ (East China Normal University Press)

‘The Role of the Intelligentsia’, Listener 79 (1968), 563–5 (etc.)

Thai

Trans. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Chayanggoon Thamma-un, in Intelligentsia no. 2 [‘So What Thailand?’] (2019), 24–35

'Discovering Isaiah Berlin: Johnny Lyons in conversation with Henry Hardy, June 2019' (short version of item B.120)

• A filmed interview, made by Johnny Lyons
• ‘This interview tells the story of how the writings of one of the most engaging and humane minds of the twentieth century were made available to the public by one most gifted and committed editors of contemporary times. In other words, it’s the tale of how Henry Hardy edited over twenty volumes of Isaiah Berlin’s works, including four volumes of letters’ (Johnny Lyons)
• Premiere: 6.00 p.m. 17/1/2020, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; followed by a Q & A with Johnny Lyons, Henry Hardy, Robert Cottrell (convenor), Richard Lindley
• Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes
• Presenter: Johnny Lyons
• Camera: Paul-Michel Ledoux
• Transcript: see item B.120
• Recording: YouTube

'Discovering Isaiah Berlin: Johnny Lyons in conversation with Henry Hardy, June 2019' (long version of item B.119)

• A filmed interview, made by Johnny Lyons
• ‘This film tells the story of Isaiah Berlin’s life, times and legacy through the lens of his editor and friend Dr Henry Hardy’ (Johnny Lyons)
• Premiere: 6.00 p.m. 17/1/2020, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; followed by a Q & A with Johnny Lyons, Henry Hardy, Robert Cottrell (convenor), Richard Lindley
• Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes
• Presenter: Johnny Lyons
• Camera: Paul-Michel Ledoux
• Transcript: View Document (below)
• Recording: YouTube

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