The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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OA.906

Stoppard, Tom, ‘The Presiding Spirit of Isaiah Berlin’, Lincoln Center Theater Review, Fall/Winter 2006 (issue 43)

  • transcript of part of a phone conversation between Stoppard and the Review, July 2006: ‘the book which got me into writing The Coast of Utopia was a collection of essays by Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers ... he’s the presiding spirit of the trilogy’
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OA.907

Stern, Fritz, Five Germanys I Have Known (New York, 2006: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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OA.908

Sternhell, Zeev, Les anti-Lumières: Du XVIIIe siècle à la guerre froide (Paris, 2006: Fayard)

  • trans. David Maisel as The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (New Haven, 2010: Yale University Press)
  • treats IB, alongside Burke and Herder, as (more or less) an enemy of mankind
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OA.909

Stoppard, Tom, ‘The Presiding Spirit of Isaiah Berlin’, Lincoln Center Theater Review, Fall/Winter 2006, issue 43, 5

  • also available on the Lincoln Center Theater website
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OA.910

Thompson, Mark, ‘Versions of Pluralism: William Empson, Isaiah Berlin, and the Cold War’, Literary Imagination 8 no. 1 (2006), 6587

  • View Document (below) for PDF
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OA.911

Vējš, Jānis, ‘The Crooked Timber: Isaiah Berlin’s Conception of the Human Nature’, The European Connection: Baltic Intellectuals and the History of Western Philosophy and Theology 48 no. 2 (2006), 84–93

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OA.912

Whiteley, Benjamin, ‘Objective, Relative or Plural? Value Pluralism and the Status of Universal Values’, Melbourne Journal of Politics 31 (2006), 91–110[?]

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OA.913

Yasui, Taro, ‘Nippon@sekai (9) Nihon ni “Ichigenron” ha niawanai: ima koso I. Berlin no tagensyugi wo ukeirero’ [‘Japan@World (9) “Monism” is Unsuitable for Japan: Now is the Time to Receive I. Berlin’s Pluralism’], Gekkan Themis 15 no. 9 (2006), 92–93

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OA.914

Zaganiaris, Jean, Spectres contre-révolutionnaires: Interprétations et usages de la pensée de Joseph de Maistre XIXe–XXe siècles (Paris, 2006: L’Harmattan)

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OB.29

Aarsbergen-Ligtvoet, Connie, Isaiah Berlin: A Value Pluralist and Humanist View of Human Nature and the Meaning of Life (Amsterdam/New York, 2006: Rodopi)

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OB.30

Burtonwood, Neil, Cultural Diversity, Liberal Pluralism, and Schools: Isaiah Berlin and Education (London, 2006: Routledge)

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OT.28

Nathan, Christopher, ‘Isaiah Berlin, Pluralism, Liberalism and Truth’, M.Phil. thesis, Oxford (2006)

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T.266

Political Ideas in the Romantic Age

Chinese

(Beijing, 2011: New Star Press: simplified script)

Italian

L’età romantica: alle origini del pensiero politico moderno, trans. Giuseppe Bernardi (Milan, 2009: Mondolibri/Bompiani)

Polish

(chapter 3 only) ‘Dwie koncepje wolności: romantyczna i liberalna’, trans. Adam Lipszyc, Przegląd polityczny no. 100 (2010), 155–89

Portuguese

Ideias políticas na era romântica: ascensão e influêncía no pensamento moderno, trans. Rosaura Eichenberg (São Paulo, 2009: Companhia das Letras)

Spanish

Las ideas políticas en la era romántica: surgimiento e influencia en el pensamiento moderno, trans. Víctor Altamirano (Mexico City, 2014: Fondo de Cultura Económica) excerpt, ‘¿Que es la libertad politica?’, Letras Libres Year 5 no. 56 (May 2006), 8–11

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T.267

Unfinished Dialogue

Polish

‘ “Przypuscmy, ze telefon zamienia sie w kota ...”: o wolnosci, filozofii jezyka i o zyciu w komunizmie’ [‘Supposing a telephone changes into a cat ...’: on liberty, on philosophy of language and on life under Communism], Przeglad Polityczny no. 79/80 (2006), 113–19

  • extracts from interviews with Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, who translates them
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B.103

‘We Will Force You To Be Free’

  • Centred on discussion of IB’s views on liberty
  • First transmission: 25/03/07 BBC2 Television
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Series: The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (third and final part)
  • Presenter and Director: Adam Curtis
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Bib.268

(in Spanish translation) ‘Dos cartas sobre México’ [‘Two letters on Mexico’ (excerpts)], Letras Libres, December 2007, 70–1

  • English original of excerpts from one letter at Building  356–7
Bibliography
OA.915

Bauer, Martin, and others, ‘Isaiah Berlin’, special section of Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 1 no. 4 (Winter 2007), 45–8, commemorating the 10th anniversary of Berlin’s death (5 November 2007)

Contents:

  • Martin Bauer and Tim B. Müller, ‘Zum Thema’, 4
  • Tim B. Müller, ‘Der Intellektuelle, der aus der Kälte kam’, 5–18
  • Bert van den Brink, ‘Gefahren der Selbst-Herrschaft: Isaiah Berlin’s Liberalismus’, 19–37
  • Joseph Mali, ‘Vico und das Erbe der Gegenaufklärung’, 38–58; revised version of his essay in Joseph Mali and Wokler, Robert (eds), Isaiah Berlin’s Counter-Enlightenment [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 93 no. 3] (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2003)
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OA.916

Cartwright, Justin, The Song Before It Is Sung (London, 2007: Bloomsbury)

  • novel giving a partly fictionalised account of the relationship between IB and Adam von Trott
  • widely reviewed in the UK and Irish broadsheets; see also Cartwright’s piece in the Guardian, and his interview there with Nicholas Wroe
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OA.917

Castello Branco, José Tomaz, ‘Isaiah Berlin: un homem livre’, Nova cidadania no. 34 (October–December 2007), 55–7

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OA.918

Crowder, George, ‘Berlin, Isaiah’, in Duncan Brack and Ed Randall (eds), Dictionary of Liberal Thought (London, 2007: Politico’s)

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