The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Isaiah Berlin

• Discussion of IB’s views on liberty, with guests Francesca Klug, Anthony Grayling, Henry Hardy and Quentin Skinner
• First transmission: ??/??/02 BBC Radio 3
• Repeat: 9.15 pm 25/05/09 BBC Radio 3
• Series: Night Waves, Landmarks
• Presenter: Philip Dodd

Freedom and its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty, ed. Henry Hardy (London, 2002: Chatto & Windus; Princeton, 2002: Princeton University Press; London, 2003, Pimlico; second edition, Princeton, 2014: Princeton University Press)

• the 'six enemies' are Helvétius, Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Saint-Simon, and Maistre
• first broadcast in 1952 as lectures for BBC radio's 'Third Programme' – see B.6
• described as ‘brilliant broadcast lectures’: [E. H. Carr,] The Times Literary Supplement, 9 January 1953, 25
• lecture on Helvétius excerpted as ‘The Art of Being Ruled: Helvétius, Happiness and the Scientists’, The Times Literary Supplement, 15 February 2002, 14–16
• lecture on Saint-Simon excerpted and abridged as ‘Henri de Saint-Simon’, Romulus, June 2002, 16–21
• trans. Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian

2nd. ed. (revised), foreword by Enrique Krauze (Princeton, 2014: Princeton University Press)

• adds an appendix containing draft material for ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ (see Bib.282, Bib.283)

Liberty, ed. Henry Hardy, with an essay on ‘Berlin and His Critics’ by Ian Harris (Oxford and New York, 2002: Oxford University Press)

• Liberty incorporates Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford University Press, 1969), while adding to it a fifth essay, 'From Hope and Fear Set Free', which Berlin wished had been published in the 1969 edition. It includes a new introduction, and draws together key texts on this defining subject in Berlin's oeuvre.
• Liberty includes revised reprints of the five essays in question - these being, in the order in which they appear: i) Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century, ii) Historical Inevitability, iii) Two Concepts of Liberty, iv) John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life, v) From Hope and Fear Set Free
• trans. Chinese, Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish

‘Five Essays on Liberty’, ed. Henry Hardy (second edition of Four Essays On Liberty)

A Letter to George Kennan (1951), in Liberty

• repr. as ‘A Letter to George Kennan: On Human Dignity’, New Republic, 28 January 2002, 23–6

Letters to Robert Craft in his An Improbable Life: Memoirs (Nashville, 2002: Vanderbilt University Press)

Letter to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska (24 February 1986), trans. into Polish by Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, Przeglad Polityczny no. 54 (2002), 120–3

Cherniss, Joshua, ‘Philosopher, Historian, Liberal: How Isaiah Berlin Made a Difference’, talk given in St Giles’ Church, Oxford, on 21 November 2002

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Cocks, Joan, Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Question (Princeton/Oxford, 2002: Princeton University Press)

• chapters 3 and 4 discuss IB

Cooke, Alistair, ‘Letter from America’, BBC Radio 4, 20 December 2002

• includes passages about IB, who is not named

James Cracraft, ‘A Berlin for Historians’, History and Theory 41 no. 3 (October 2002), 277–300

Craft, Robert, An Improbable Life: Memoirs (Nashville, 2002: Vanderbilt University Press)

• includes letters from IB

Crick, Bernard, ‘On Isaiah Berlin’, in Crossing Borders: Political Essays (London, 2001: Continuum), 163–73

Crowder, George, Liberalism and Value Pluralism (London and New York, 2002: Continuum)

• a thorough synthesis of the debate so far, with numerous original contributions to that debate; an important work on the subject

Reviewed by:

• Cyrenne, Chad, Ethics 113 no. 4 (July 2003), 873–6
• Young, Shaun P., Theoria no. 101 (June 2003), 128–33 (also reviews Galston 2002, OA.727)

Crowder, George, ‘Two Value-Pluralist Arguments for Liberalism’, Australian Journal of Political Science 37 (2002), 457–73

Crowder, George, and Griffiths, Martin, ‘Postmodernism, Value Pluralism, and International Relations’, in Darryl S. L. Jarvis (ed.), International Relations and the ‘Third Debate’: Postmodernism and its Critics (Westport, 2002: Praeger)

• a lightly revised version of their APSA conference paper of 1999 (OA.554)

Dubin, Boris, ‘Neskol′ko slov o stat′e Berlina “Evropeiskoe edinstvo i ego sud′by” [intro. to Russian transl. of Berlin’s ‘European Unity and its Vicissitudes’]’, Neprikosnovennii zapas: debati o politike i kul′ture 21 no. 1 (2002), 3–5

Figes, Orlando, Natasha's Dance. A Cultural History of Russia (London, 2002: Allen Lane), 667–8

Galston, William, Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice (Cambridge etc., 2002: Cambridge University Press)

• a defence of IB’s outlook

Reviews:

• Young, Shaun P., Theoria no. 101 (June 2003), 128–33 (also reviews Crowder 2002, OA.722)
• Groß, Steffen W., ‘Mannigfaltigkeit und Liberalität: Isaiah Berlins tragischer Liberalismus’, Dialektik: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2002 no. 1, 141–52

Hama, Shinichiro, ‘Isaiah Berlin: hini aru shakai no jitsugen wo mezashite’ [‘Isaiah Berlin on the Decent Society’], in K. Tomisawa and K. Koga (eds), Nijyusseiki no seijishisouka tachi [Political Thinkers in the Twentieth Century] (Kyoto, 2002: Minerva Shobo), 152–75