Isaiah Berlin
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Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.
From the Review
September 23, 2004: A Letter on Human Nature
October 18, 2001: Notes on Prejudice
October 19, 2000: The Arts in Russia Under Stalin
May 14, 1998: The First and the Last
October 3, 1996: On Political Judgment
November 18, 1993: 'The Magus of the North' (letter)
October 21, 1993: The Magus of the North
March 7, 1991: The Detention of Sari Nussiebeh (letter)
December 20, 1990: No Conservative (letter)
October 25, 1990: Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism: III
October 11, 1990: Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism: II
September 27, 1990: An Open Letter on Anti-Armenian Pogroms in the Soviet Union (letter)
September 27, 1990: Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism
March 17, 1988: On the Pursuit of the Ideal
January 30, 1986: Polish-Jewish Studies (letter)
December 19, 1985: A Note on 'Khovanshchina'
October 27, 1983: The Gentle Genius
Turgenev's Letters selected, translated, and edited by A.V. Knowles
November 20, 1980: Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak
October 9, 1980: The Hedgehog and the Fox Continued (letter)
November 8, 1979: Einstein and Israel
April 19, 1979: 'A Revolutionary Without Fanaticism'
November 15, 1973: Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament Part III
November 1, 1973: Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament Part II
October 18, 1973: Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament
April 6, 1972: An Exchange on Machiavelli
December 16, 1971: George Seferis (letter)
November 4, 1971: A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli
April 24, 1969: A Note on Vico's Concept of Knowledge
June 20, 1968: Herzen's Circle (letter)
March 14, 1968: The Great Amateur
December 23, 1965: A Great Russian Writer
The Prose of Osip Mandelstam translated with an Introductory Essay by Clarence Brown
From New York Review Books
 | The First and the Last Tributes by Noel Annan, Stuart Hampshire, Aileen Kelly, Avishai Margalit, and Bernard Williams vividly recall Berlin as conversationalist, music lover, philosopher, and friend. The perfect introduction to Berlin's ideas. |
Books by Isaiah Berlin
Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty (2002)
Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty (2002)
The Power of Ideas (2000)
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder (2000)
The First and the Last (1999)
The Roots of Romanticism (1999)
The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays (1997)
The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History (1996)
The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Rrationalism (1993)
Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (1992)
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1992)
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (1990)
Personal Impressions (1981)
Washington Despatches, 1941-1945: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy (1981)
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (1979)
Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (1979)
Karl Marx, His Life and Environment (1978)
Russian Thinkers (1978)
Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (1976)
Four Essays on Liberty (1969)
The Age of Enlightenment; The Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1956)