Lecture series and collections of essays in print in English
- 157 Russian Thinkers
- Introduction: A Complex Vision by Aileen Kelly
- 30 Russia and 1848
- 44 The Hedgehog and the Fox
- 56 Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty
- 57 A Remarkable Decade
- I The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia
- II German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow
- III Vissarion Belinsky
- IV Alexander Herzen
- 76 Russian Populism
- 82 Tolstoy and Enlightenment
- 125 Fathers and Children
- 158 Concepts and Categories
- Foreword to the second edition by Alasdair MacIntyre
- Introduction by Bernard Williams
- 85 The Purpose of Philosophy
- 25 Verification
- 35 Empirical Propositions and Hypothetical Statements
- 36 Logical Translation
- 64 Equality
- 77 The Concept of Scientific History
- 81 Does Political Theory Still Exist?
- 93 From Hope and Fear Set Free
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- 277 Made of Wax after All ([extracts from] letters to Henry Hardy on whether to publish the book)
- 275 My Philosophical Views
- Interview with Frans Boenders on Concepts and Categories
- 22 Logical Positivism
- 95a The Rationality of Value Judgements
- part of 161a Is a Philosophy of History Possible?
- 217 Pluralism and Liberalism (with Bernard Williams)
- 219 The Philosophy of Charles Taylor
- 166 Against the Current
- Foreword to the second edition by Mark Lilla
- Introduction by Roger Hausheer
- 134 The Counter-Enlightenment
- 122 The Originality of Machiavelli
- 139 The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities
- 114 Vico’s Concept of Knowledge
- 152 Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment
- 58 Montesquieu
- 154 Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism
- 108 Herzen and his Memoirs
- 75 The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess
- 118 Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity
- 110 The ‘Naivety’ of Verdi
- 121 Georges Sorel
- 161 Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power
- A Bibliography of Isaiah Berlin by Henry Hardy [first edition only]
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- 278 (Extracts from) letters to Joseph Alsop, Jean Floud and A. J. P. Taylor on Machiavelli, to Omar Haliq on Moses Hess and Zionism, to Sidney Morgenbesser on pluralism, freedom and determinism, and to Sidney Hook on various topics
- 167 Personal Impressions (asterisked
items added in
second
edition; items marked with a ‘+’ added in third edition; order as in third edition)
- Foreword to the third edition by Hermione Lee
- 32 Winston Churchill in 1940
- 51 Hubert Henderson at All Souls
- 60 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 72 Richard Pares
- 70 Chaim Weizmann
- 92 Felix Frankfurter at Oxford
- 96 Aldous Huxley
- 104 L. B. Namier
- 120 Maurice Bowra
- 133 J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy
- 142 John Petrov Plamenatz
- 149 Auberon Herbert
- 166a Einstein and Israel
- 177c Where Was I?+
- 133 J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy
- 181b Maynard and Lydia Keynes+
- 188a Nahum Goldmann+
- 192 Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion+
- 191 Martin Cooper+
- 214 Yitzhak Sadeh*
- 192a Adam von Trott+
- 194a David Cecil*
- 195 Edmund Wilson at Oxford*
- 198 Memories of Virginia Woolf*
- 203e Alexander and Salome Halpern+
- 203f Jewish Oxford+
- 215 Herbert Hart+
- 220 Corpuscle+
- 222 Stephen Spender+
- 169 Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956
- 172 Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life*
- Afterword by Noel Annan
- 199 The Crooked Timber of Humanity
- Foreword to the second edition by John Banville
- 196 The Pursuit of the Ideal
- 159 The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West
- 181 Giambattista Vico and Cultural History
- 170 Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought
- 73 European Unity and its Vicissitudes
- 200 Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism
- 143 The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will
- 128 The Bent Twig: On the Rise of Nationalism
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- 28 Russell’s History of Philosophy
- 184 Reply to Robert Kocis
- 204 Reply to Ronald H. McKinney
- 258a Letter to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska on Human Nature
- 279 Letters to Alain Besançon and Piero Gastaldo on Joseph de Maistre, and to Geert Van Cleemput on nationalism
- 227 The Sense of Reality
- Introduction by Patrick Gardiner
- 235 The Sense of Reality
- 233 Political Judgement
- 232 Philosophy and Government Repression
- 38 Socialism and Socialist Theories
- 231 Marxism and the International in the Nineteenth Century
- 216 The Romantic Revolution
- 228 Artistic Commitment: A Russian Legacy
- 230 Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Nationalism
- 234 Rabindranath Tagore and the Consciousness of Nationality
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- 293 The End of the Ideal of a Perfect Society
- 294 A Great Russian Critic: Vissarion Grigor'evich Belinsky
- 237 The Proper Study of
Mankind
- Foreword to the second edition by Andrew Marr
- Foreword by Noel Annan
- Introduction by Roger Hausheer
- 196 The Pursuit of the Ideal
- 77 The Concept of Scientific History
- 81 Does Political Theory Still Exist?
- 93 From Hope and Fear Set Free
- 54 Historical Inevitability
- 71 Two Concepts of Liberty
- 134 The Counter-Enlightenment
- 22 The Originality of Machiavelli
- 139 The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities
- 98 Herder and the Enlightenment
- 44 The Hedgehog and the Fox
- 108 Herzen and his Memoirs
- 169 Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak
- 143 The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will
- 161 Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power
- 32 Winston Churchill in 1940
- 60 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Concise bibliography of Isaiah Berlin’s writings by Henry Hardy
- 243 The Roots of Romanticism
- Children of Two Worlds: Foreword to the second edition by John Gray
- 1 In Search of a Definition
- 2 The First Attack on Enlightenment
- 3 The True Fathers of Romanticism
- 4 The Restrained Romantics
- 5 Unbridled Romanticism
- 6 The Lasting Effects
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- 280 (Extracts from) letters to P. H. Newby, Helen Rapp and John Walker on the lectures in the volume
- 245 The Power of Ideas
- Foreword to the second edition by Avishai Margalit
- 240 My Intellectual Path
- 85 The Purpose of Philosophy
- 62 The Philosophers of the Enlightenment
- 115 One of the Boldest Innovators in the History of Human Thought
- 102 Russian Intellectual History
- 27 The Man Who Became a Myth
- 63 A Revolutionary Without Fanaticism
- 111 The Role of the Intelligentsia
- 221 Liberty
- 78 The Philosophy of Karl Marx
- 65 The Father of Russian Marxism
- 55 Realism in Politics
- 52 The Origins of Israel
- 43 Jewish Slavery and Emancipation
- 54a Chaim Weizmann’s Leadership
- 248 The Search for Status
- 103 The Essence of European Romanticism
- 127 Meinecke and Historicism
- 113 General Education
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- 273a Democracy, Communism and the Individual
- 260 Woodrow Wilson on Education
- 94a A Note on Nationalism
- 246 Three Critics of the Enlightenment
- Foreword to the second edition by Jonathan Israel
- 148 Vico and Herder
- Introduction
- 79 The Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico
- 99 Vico’s Theory of Knowledge and its Sources
- 98 Herder and the Enlightenment
- 212 The Magus of the North
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Life
- 3 The Central Core
- 4 The Enlightenment
- 5 Knowledge
- 6 Language
- 7 Creative Genius
- 8 Politics
- 9 Conclusion
- Excursus to Chapter 6
- Bibliographical Note
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- 130 Giambattista Vico: Man of Genius
- 244 The Reputation of Vico
- part of 152 The Workings of Providence
- 274 Hamann’s Origins
- 281 Letters to Quentin Skinner on Vico, and to Gwen Griffith Dickson and Mark Lilla on Hamann
- 251 Freedom and Its Betrayal
- Isaiah the Prophet: Foreword to the second edition by Enrique Krauze
- Introduction
- Helvétius
- Rousseau
- Fichte
- Hegel
- Saint-Simon
- Maistre
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- part of 282 ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’: Early Texts
- 252 Liberty
- The Editor’s Tale by Henry Hardy
- 253 Five Essays on Liberty (second edition of 112)
- Introduction
- 37 Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century
- 54 Historical Inevitability
- 71 Two Concepts of Liberty
- 74 John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life
- 93 From Hope and Fear Set Free
- 221 Liberty
- 241a The Birth of Greek Individualism
- parts of 240 Final retrospect
- 241 The Purpose Justifies the Ways
- 254 A letter to George Kennan
- 250c Notes on Prejudice
- Berlin and his Critics by Ian Harris
- 256 The Soviet Mind
- Foreword by Strobe Talbott
- 237a The Arts in Russia under Stalin
- 250 A Visit to Leningrad
- 101 A Great Russian Writer
- 169 Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak
- 257 Boris Pasternak
- 259 Why the Soviet Union Chooses to Insulate Itself
- 46 The Artificial Dialectic: Generalissimo Stalin and the Art of Government
- 258 Four Weeks in the Soviet Union
- 67–8 Soviet Russian Culture
- 201 The Survival of the Russian Intelligentsia
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- 287Marxist versus Non-Marxist Ideas in Soviet Policy
- 288Communism: Summary of Mr Berlin’s Speech
- Glossary of Names by Helen Rappaport
- 266 Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
- Ambivalent Fascination – Isaiah Berlin and Political Romanticism: Foreword to the second edition by William A. Galston
- Isaiah Berlin’s Political Ideas: From the Twentieth Century to the Romantic Age by Joshua L. Cherniss
- Prologue
- 1 Politics as a Descriptive Science
- 2 The Idea of Freedom
- 3 Two Concepts of Freedom: Romantic and Liberal
- 4 The March of History
- Appendix: Subjective versus Objective Ethics
- Summaries of the Flexner Lectures
- Note from the Editor to the Author
- Appendix to the Second Edition
- part of 282 The Concise ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’