The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

‘One of the Boldest Innovators in the History of Human Thought’

Spanish

‘Uno de los más audaces innovadores en la historia del pensamiento humano’, trans. Enrique F. Bocardo, in Cuadernos sobre Vico, Nos 9–10 (1998), 11–22

Turgenev and the Dilemma of the Liberal Intellectual

• Romanes Lecture for 1970, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
• Recording date: 12/11/70
• First transmission: 9.00 pm 14/2/71 BBC Radio 3
• Duration: 56 minutes
• Repeat(s): 4.30 pm 5/9/71 BBC Radio 3
• Producer: Adrian Johnson
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T33582; BLSA Tape T297R (another recording Tape T11065R)
• Publication: Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament (Oxford, 1972: Clarendon Press) = Bib.125

Weizmann as Exilarch

• Israel Goldstein Lecture, Jerusalem
• Recording date: 1970
• Duration: 35 minutes
• Recording: BLSA: Tape T10898R
• Publication: ‘Weizmann as Exilarch’, in Chaim Weizmann as Leader (Jerusalem, 1970: Hebrew University of Jerusalem) = Bib.119

Foreword to R. D. Miller, Schiller and the Ideal of Freedom: A Study of Schiller’s Philosophical Works with Chapters on Kant (Oxford, 1970: Clarendon Press), v

‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, and the Search for Identity’, in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 22 (1968–9) (London, 1970: Jewish Historical Society of England)

• repr. in Midstream 16 no. 7 (August-September 1970), 29–49
• repr. in Against the Current
• trans. French, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Spanish

‘Weizmann as Exilarch’, in Chaim Weizmann as Leader (Jerusalem, 1970: Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 13–21

• trans. Hebrew
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Chiaromonte, Nicola, The Paradox of History: Stendhal, Tolstoy, Pasternak and others (London, [1970]: Weidenfeld & Nicolson), 9

• xix in the reprint with a foreword by Joseph Frank and a postface by Mary McCarthy (Philadelphia, 1985: University of Pennsylvania Press)
• 43 in the Italian translation, Credere e non credere (Bologna, 1993: Il Mulino)
• Berlin’s ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox’ is discussed in the second chapter, ‘Tolstoy and the Paradox of History’ (1970 ed., 29–56; 1985 ed., 17–50)

‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, and the Search for Identity’

French

‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, et la recherche d’une identité’, trans. Louis Évrard, in Trois essais sur la condition juive (Paris, 1973: Calmann-Lévy)

Hebrew

In Molad NS 4 (OS 27) (1971) 243–60

Hungarian

‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx és az identitás keresése’, trans. Gábor Berényi, in Világosság [Light] no. 5–6 (May–June1998), 139–164

Japanese

‘Benjamin Disraeli to Karl Marx: jiga no tankyu’, trans. Hidekazu Kawaui, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

Lithuanian

Spanish

‘Disraeli, Marx y la búsqueda de identidad’, trans. Soledad Loaeza, in Dialogos no. 43 (January–February 1972),7–18

‘Weizmann as Exilarch’

Hebrew

• (Israel, 1970)

‘The Russian Conception of the Artist’, a lecture delivered at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

• Date: 1 March 1971
• Duration: c. 1 hour
• Recording: University of British Columbia Archives phonotape no. 142
• There is fairly poor quality audio of the lecture here
• See also Bib.121(b)

View document, below, for a PDF transcript (which awaits improvement: see note on its first page)

The Russian Obsession with History and Historicism

• The second Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture, delivered at Totem Park, University of British Columbia
• Recording date: 2/3/71
• Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes
• Recording: University of British Columbia Archives phonotape no. 143
• Enhanced copy of the recording here
• Unpublished

View Document (below) for transcript; and see also Bib.297, Four Lectures on Russian Historicism

Stravinsky Died a Year Ago

• Interviews
• Recording date: 25/11/71
• First transmission: 9.30 pm 6/4/72 BBC Radio 3
• Duration (IB’s contribution): 5 minutes 33 seconds
• Presenter: John Amis
• Producer: Denys Gueroult
• Transcript: IB’s contributions transcribed by Henry Hardy
• Recording: IB’s contribution on BBC Sound Archives LP34715, 25/11/71[–28/2/72]; whole programme on BBC Sound Archives T34558, 28/3/72, and on BLSA Tape T458W (off-air)

Sir Maurice Bowra, 1898–1971 (Oxford, [1971]: Wadham College), 10 pp.

• repr. as ‘Memorial Address in St Mary’s’ in Hugh Lloyd-Jones (ed.), Maurice Bowra (London, 1974: Duckworth)
• repr. as ‘Maurice Bowra’ in Personal Impressions

‘Georges Sorel’, Creighton Lecture, The Times Literary Supplement, 31 December 1971, 1617–22

• repr. in expanded form in Chimen Abramsky (ed.), Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr (London, 1974: Macmillan), 3–35
• repr. in Against the Current
• trans. Hebrew, Spanish
• see also Bib.132, ‘Sorel’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 14 January 1972, 40

‘The Rise of Modern Irrationalism’, Benjamin Rush Lecture, 4 May 1971, Washington, DC

‘The Russian Conception of the Artist’, a lecture delivered on 1 March 1971, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

• There is fairly poor quality audio of the lecture here
• See also B.42(a)

View document, below, for a PDF transcript (which awaits improvement: see note on its first page)

‘The Question of Machiavelli’, New York Review of Books, 4 November 1971, 20–32

• repr. of part of ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’, in Myron P. Gilmore (ed.), Studies on Machiavelli (Florence, 1972: Sansoni), 149–206
• repr. in the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Political Science, No 68813
• as Appendix II in Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince on The Art of Power (London, 2007: Duncan Baird Publishing), 222–61
• full version repr. in John Dunn and Ian Harris (eds), Machiavelli (Cheltenham and Lyme, 1997: Edward Elgar), vol. 2
• in Against the Current
• in The Proper Study of Mankind
• trans. Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian

‘Randolph’, in Kay Halle (ed.), Randolph Churchill: The Young Unpretender (London, 1971: Heinemann), 278–9

‘Tchaikovsky and Eugene Onegin’, Glyndebourne Festival Programme Book 1971, 58–63

• repr. as ‘Tchaikovsky, Pushkin and Onegin’ in Musical Times 121 (1980), 163–8, and Eugene Onegin (Oxford University Opera Club programme) ([Oxford], 1992)
• See also the compilation 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299

(with others) ‘George Seferis’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 16 December 1971, 42

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