The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library

The Berlin Post


An online journal of writing about Isaiah Berlin




The Berlin Post is a forum where visitors can find writing about Isaiah Berlin and his ideas that is for the most part unavailable in printed form. This list provides links to the pieces so far published in this way, and also to a number of pieces published both on this site and in conventional form. Entries are in reverse chronological order. Work hosted by other websites is not included here, but may be found by consulting the full list of publications about Berlin on this site and looking for links.
2006
Thompson, Mark, ‘Versions of Pluralism: William Empson, Isaiah Berlin, and the Cold War’, Literary Imagination 8 No1 (2006), 6587 [1]
2005
Chappel, James, ‘Dignity is Everything: Isaiah Berlin and his Jewish Identity’, Haverford College
Senior Thesis, 25 April 2005
Crowder, George, ‘Value-Pluralist Multiculturalism: Between Economic Rationalism and Cultural Relativism’, presented at the Annual Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association, University of Otago, September 2005
Dénes, Iván Zoltán, ‘Three Concepts of Liberty’
2003
Delannoi, Gil, Preface to Isaiah Berlin, Le Sens des réalités, French translation of SR by Gil Delannoi et Alexis Butin (Paris, 2003: Les Editions des Syrtes), 9–22
Crowder, George, ‘Hedgehog and Fox’, review article covering FL, POI, FIB, TCE and The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, Australian Journal of Political Science 38 No 2 (July 2003), 333–77
Crowder, George, ‘Pluralism, Relativism and Liberalism in Isaiah Berlin’, paper read at the Australian Political Science Association conference, 2003 (at the University of Tasmania)
Allen, Jonathan, ‘Isaiah Berlins Anti-Procrustean Liberalism: Ideas, Circumstances, and the Protean Individual’, prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (28–31 August 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
2002
Johnson, Michael, ‘Meeting Isaiah Berlin’
Hardy, Henry, ‘Pluralism and Radical Tolerance’, Insights 118 No 1 (Fall 2002), 21–3
Hardy, Henry, ‘A Huge Unsorted Heap’, Oxford Today 14 No 2 (Hilary Issue 2002), 51
Cherniss, Joshua, ‘Philosopher, Historian, Liberal: How Isaiah Berlin Made a Difference’, talk given in St Giles’ Church, Oxford, on 21 November 2002
Cherniss, Joshua, ‘ “A Cautious, Sober Love Affair with Humanity”: Humanism in the Thought of Isaiah Berlin’, Senior Essay, Political Science, Yale University, 2002
2001
Hardy, Henry, ‘Thoughts of Taj Mahal will leave you as drunk as a fox’, review of The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, Times Higher Education Supplement, 30 November 2001, 24–5
2000
Hardy, Henry, ‘Confessions of an Editor’, Australian Financial Review, 30 June 2000, Review section, 4–5
Hardy, Henry, ‘Berlin’s Big Idea’, Philosophers’ Magazine 11 (Summer 2000), 15–16, and (as ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Key Idea’ ) Romulus (the magazine of Wolfson College, Oxford) NS 4 No 1 (Trinity 2000), 4–5
1998
Wokler, Robert, ‘Isaiah Berlin: A Commemoration’, presented as a celebratory lecture at the Harvard Club in New York on 2 June 1998
Billington, James H., Kay Graham, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, Robert Silvers, Charles Taylor and Leon Wieseltier, ‘An American Remembrance’ of Isaiah Berlin held at the British Embassy in Washington on 28 January 1998
1997
Hardy, Henry, obituary of Berlin, Independent, 7 November 1997; repr. as ‘Isaiah Berlin: A Personal Impression’
Hardy, Henry, ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Four Essays on Liberty, ‘Speaking Volumes’ series, Times Higher Education Supplement, 21 November 1997, 21
1995
Hardy, Henry, ‘Taking Pluralism Seriously’; see also shortened version
1993
Hardy, Henry, ‘The Compatibility of Incompatibles’, Independent, 20 February 1993, 33
1983
Hardy, Henry, ‘Isaiah Berlin’, in Gavin Ewart (ed.), Other People’s Clerihews (Oxford, 1983: Oxford University Press), 9
1978
Hardy, Henry, ‘Editing Isaiah Berlin’s Writings’, British Book News, January 1978, 3, 5; repr. in Lycidas (the magazine of Wolfson College, Oxford), 34–5
Notes
[1] Mark Thompson, ‘Versions of Pluralism: William Empson, Isaiah Berlin, and the Cold War’, is reprinted from volume 8, number 1 (Spring 2006) of Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, copyright 2006. Used by permission of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. [back]


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