The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Mazurek, Kaz, ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Philosophy of History: Structure, Method, Implications’, Philosophy and Social Criticism 6 (1979), 391–406 [API]

White, M., ‘Oughts and Cans’, The Idea of Freedom, ed. A. Ryan (Oxford, 1979: Oxford University Press), 211–19

Jonathan Lieberson and Sidney Morgenbesser, ‘The Questions of Isaiah Berlin’, and Sidney Morgenbesser and Jonathan Lieberson, ‘The Choices of Isaiah Berlin’

• two articles, published in the New York Review of Books, 6 March 1980, 38–42, 20 March 1980, 31–6
• the first article reviews Against the Current, and this review continues in the second article, which also reviews Alan Ryan (ed.), The Idea of Freedom: Essays in Honour of Isaiah Berlin (Oxford, 1979: Oxford University Press)

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas

Chinese

(Nanjing, 2002: Yilin Press: simplified script)

French

À contre-courant (Paris, 1988: Albin Michel)

German

• Wider das Gelaüfige (Frankfurt, 1981, Hamburg, 1991: Europäische
• Wider das Gelaüfige, rejacketed reissue of previous Wider das Gelaüfige (1982, Fischer, Europäische)
• (pocketbook) Wider das Gelaüfige (Frankfurt, 1988: Fischer. Athenaum)
• Wider das Gelaüfige, trans. Johannes Fritsche (Frankfurt, 1994: Fischer)

Greek

Kontpa Eto Peyma, trans. Maria Castanara (Athens, 2003: Scripta)

Hebrew

• (Tel Aviv, 1986: Am Oved)
• The Open University of Israel 1989 [non-exclusive use of the essay ‘Nationalism’]
• The Open University of Israel 1991 [non-exclusive use of the essay ‘Montesquieu’]

Italian

• Controcorrente, trans. Giovanni Ferrara degli Uberti (Milan, 2000: Adelphi)
• extract from ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’ in Il Sole-24 Ore, 5 November 2000, Domenica, 25

Japanese

• (in part) ‘The Counter-Enlightenment’, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 3 (1984)
• ‘The Originality of Machiavelli’, in op. cit. vol. 1 (1983)
• ‘The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities’, in vol. 1 (1983)
• ‘Vico’s Concept of Knowledge’, in vol. 3 (1984); ‘Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment’, in vol. 3 (1984)
• ‘Montesquieu’, vol. 1 (1983); ‘The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess’, in in vol. 3 (1984)
• ‘Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity’, in vol. 3 (1984)
• ‘The Naivety of Verdi’, in vol. 1 (1983); ‘Georges Sorel’, in vol. 1 (1983)
• ‘Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power’, in vol. 1 (1983)

Polish

Pod prad: eseje z historii idei (Poznan, 1997, 2002: Zysk)

Serbian

1994: Bogda Mrvos

Spanish

Contra la corriente: ensayos sobre historia de las ideas, trans. Hero Rodríguez Toro (Mexico, 1983, 2006: Fondo de Cultura Económica)

‘Einstein and Israel’

Chinese

In A Feast of Thoughts, ed. and trans. Hong Gao (Beijing, 2016: New World)

• a selection of essays by sixteen ‘world-class masters’, including Arendt, Auden, Brodsky, Sakharov, Sontag, Stravinsky, and offering ‘deep thinking about human civilisation’

Japanese

‘Einstein to Israel’, trans. Hidekazu Kawai, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 2 (1983)

Russian

(Jerusalem, 1998: Moadon Teena)

Personal Impressions

• Interview on IB's book of that title (Hogarth Press, 1980)
• First transmission: 9.30 4/11/80 BBC Radio 4
• Duration (whole programme): 30 minutes
• Series: Kaleidoscope
• Presenter: Edwin Mullins
• Producer: Paul Campbell [Radio Times says Richard Dunn]
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BLSA Tape T10780R

Personal Impressions, ed. Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Noel Annan (London, 1980: Hogarth Press; New York, 1981: Viking; Oxford, 1982: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin)

• reprints of Bibs. 32, 51, 60, 70, 72, 92, 96, 104, 120, 133, 142, 149, 166(a), (together with 169)
• trans. Hebrew (in part), Italian (in part), Japanese (in part), Lithuanian, Portuguese, Spanish

2nd ed. (London, 1998: Pimlico; Princeton, 2001: Princeton University Press)

• adds reprints of Bibs. 172, 194(a), 195, 198, 214
• trans. Chinese, German

3rd ed., foreword by Hermione Lee (Princeton, 2014: Princeton University Press)

• adds the original English text of Bib.203(e) and reprints of 177(c), 179, 181(b), 188(a), 191, 192, 192(a), 203(f), 215, 220, 222
• trans. Chinese, German

Story in Pass the Port Again: The Best After-Dinner Stories of the Famous (London, 1980: Christian Brann), 21

‘The Incompatibility of Values’, in Melvin Kranzberg (ed.), Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology (Boulder, 1980: Westview Press), 32–3

‘Virtue and Practicality’, in Melvin Kranzberg (ed.), Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology (Boulder, 1980: Westview Press), 193

‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in Personal Impressions

• Shortened version, ‘Conversations with Russian Poets’ (given as a Bowra Lecture), The Times Literary Supplement, 31 October 1980, 1233–6
• and (with additions), as ‘Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak’, New York Review of Books, 20 November 1980, 23–35 – this version repr. in The Proper Study of Mankind, The Soviet Mind and Robert B. Silvers (ed.), The Company They Kept, vol. 2, Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (New York, 2011: New York Review Books)
• excerpted as ‘Anna Akhmatova: A Memoir’ in The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer, ed. Roberta Reeder (Somerville, Massachusetts, 1990: Zephyr Press), vol. 2 – and in the one-volume edition (Somerville, Massachusetts, 1992: Zephyr Press; 2nd. ed., Boston, Massachusetts, 1994: Zephyr Press; Edinburgh, 1994: Canongate Press)
• trans. Dutch, French (in part), German, Hebrew, Polish, Spanish (in part), Russian

NB: the opening paragraph of the lecture as delivered was omitted from the published text

‘Note on Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth Century European Thought’, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 3 (1980), 89–106

• repr. with revisions in L. Pompa and W. H. Dray (eds), Substance and Form in History: A Collection of Essays in Philosophy of History (Edinburgh, 1981: University of Edinburgh Press), and The Crooked Timber of Humanity
• trans. Italian, Polish

‘On Philosophy’, Good Book Guide 8 (Spring 1980), 10

• repr. (in part) in Concepts and Categories (2nd ed., 2013)

‘A Tribute to my Friend’ (on Jacob Talmon), Forum no. 38 (Summer 1980), 1–4

• trans. Hebrew

‘Upon Receiving the Jerusalem Prize’, Conservative Judaism 33 no. 2 (Winter 1980), 14–17

• repr. as ‘The Three Strands in My Life’, Jewish Quarterly 27 Nos 2–3 (Summer/Autumn 1979), 5–7
• repr. in Personal Impressions (2nd ed., 1998)
• trans. Russian, excerpts trans. Hebrew

Contribution to ‘Books of the Year’, Sunday Times, 7 December 1980, Weekly Review, 33

Contribution to [Evangeline Bell Bruce (ed.),] David K. E. Bruce (Salisbury, 1980: Michael Russell), 12–13

‘The Hedgehog and the Fox Continued’ (letter), New York Review of Books, 9 October 1980, 44

• see Bib.44

Edwin Mullins, ‘Personal Impressions’, on IB's book of that title, Kaleidoscope, Radio 4, 4 November 1980

• not subsequently published