The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Politics

• The Jay Interview
• First transmission: 31/8/75 London Weekend Television
• Presenter: Peter Jay
• Duration: 55 minutes
• Series: The Jay Interview: In Quest of Our Civilisation, No 2
• Producer: Julian Norridge
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: ITN Source; copy at British Library Sound Archive, London, Tape V601
• Publication: for transcript view document below (this is duplicated at I.12)

The End of the Ideal of the Perfect Society

• Lecture given to an audience of teachers and students at the University of New South Wales
• Recording date: 1975
• First transmission: 5/11/75 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Presenter: John Merson[?], Sydney
• Duration: c.60 minutes
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: Australian Broadcasting Corporation tape, call number 75/10/2379; copy at British Library Sound Archive, London, Tape H2882

Vico, Voltaire and the Beginnings of Cultural History

• Lecture given at the University of Adelaide, 7/11/75
• Recording date: 7/11/75
• First transmission: 12/11/75 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Presenter: John Merson[?], Sydney
• Duration: c.60 minutes
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: Australian Broadcasting Corporation tape, call number 75/10/2379; copy at British Library Sound Archive, London, Tape H2883

John Petrov Plamenatz, 1912–1975 (Oxford, [1975]: All Souls College), 12 pp.

• repr. in Personal Impressions

Foreword (on Avraham Harman) to Dov Noy and Issachar Ben-Ami (eds), Studies in the Cultural Life of the Jews in England (Jerusalem, 1975: Magnes Press, the Hebrew University), 7

‘L’apoteosi della volontà romantica: la rivolta contro il tipo di un mondo ideale’, Lettere italiane 27 (1975), 44–68

• original English version, ‘The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World’, published in The Crooked Timber of Humanity
• repr. in The Proper Study of Mankind
• trans. Latvian, Spanish

‘Performances memorable and not so memorable’, Opera 26 (1975), 116–20

• See also the compilation 'Isaiah Berlin on Music', Bib.299

Presidential Address, Proceedings of the British Academy 61 (1975), 71–81

Speech at the Official Opening of Wolfson College, Oxford, 12 November 1974, Lycidas 3 (1975), 3–6

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(unattributed) ‘Sir John Wheeler-Bennett’ (obituary), The Times, 10 December 1975, 19

‘Sir John Wheeler-Bennett’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 13 December 1975, 16

(with others) ‘Writers and the Closed Shop’ (letter), The Times Literary Supplement, 25 April 1975, 441

• view document below for PDF

‘The End of the Ideal of a Perfect Society’ (1975), in The Sense of Reality (2nd ed., 2019)

• Improved English text of Bib.272 

Peter Jay, ‘Politics’, London Weekend Television, 31 August 1975

• For transcript, view document below (this is duplicated at B.57)

Hardy, Henry, ‘A Bibliography of Isaiah Berlin’, Lycidas (the magazine of Wolfson College, Oxford) 3 (1974–5), 41–5

• additions in the subsequent issue
• repr. in revised form in the first edition of Against the Current
• the bibliography is the basis of the present online catalogue, which is also available on the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library (IBVL)

Steiner, Hillel, ‘Individual Liberty’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 75 (1974–5), 33–50 [API]

Wheeler-Bennett, John, Special Relationships: America in Peace and War (New York, 1975 [and London same year?]: St Martin’s Press/Macmillan)

‘The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World’

Italian

‘L’apoteosi della volontà romantica: la rivolta contro il tipo di un mondo ideale’ Lettere italiane 27 (1975), 44–68 (first publication)

Japanese

‘Romansyugi ni okeru “Ishi” noSanbi: Risou Sekai no Shinwa ni taisuru Hanran’, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), Risou no tsuikyu, vol. 4 [translation of The Crooked Timber of Humanity by K. Fukuda, H. Kawai, H. Tanaka and R. Matsumoto] (1992)

Latvian

‘Romantiskas gribas apoteoze: sacelšanās pret ideālas pasaulesmītu’, trans. and introduced by Jānis Nameisis Vejš, Kentaurs 21 no. 8 (March 1995),29–58

Spanish

(1994: Estudios) [Chileonly]

Reconsidering John Stuart Mill: 2 Mill – The Manifold

• Symposium
• Recording date: 18/5/76
• First transmission: 9.25 pm 6/10/76 BBC Radio 3
• Duration (whole programme): 55 minutes
• Repeat(s): 9.30 pm 22/4/78 BBC Radio 3
• Series: 2nd of 2 programmes (1st 27/9/76)
• Presenter: Alan Ryan
• Producer: Leonie Cohn
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T37949; copy on British Library Sound Archive, London Tape T10213W

Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (London, 1976: Hogarth Press; New York, 1976: Viking; New York, 1977: Vintage Books; London, 1980: Chatto and Windus; London, 1992: Hogarth Press)

• revised versions of ‘The Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico’, ‘Herder and the Enlightenment’, and ‘Sulla teoria del Vico circa la conoscenza storica’ (a much expanded version of ‘Appendix: On Vico’s Epistemology’), with a new introduction
• repr. in revised form in Three Critics of the Enlightenment
• trans. Catalan, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese