Isaiah Berlin
By Oxford University
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Description
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), founding President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, is regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. He was famous as an extempore lecturer, and his inimitable speaking style is well illustrated in this series of podcasts.
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 6 – The Lasting Effects | The sixth and last of Isaiah Berlin's famous 1965 Mellon Lectures In March–April 1965 Isaiah Berlin delivered his most famous series of public lectures, the A. W. Mellon Lectures (sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation), at the National Gallery of Art, | 21 11 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics | The fourth of Isaiah Berlin's famous 1965 Mellon Lectures In March–April 1965 Isaiah Berlin delivered his most famous series of public lectures, the A. W. Mellon Lectures (sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation), at the National Gallery of Art, Washing | 21 11 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism | The fifth of Isaiah Berlin's famous 1965 Mellon Lectures In March–April 1965 Isaiah Berlin delivered his most famous series of public lectures, the A. W. Mellon Lectures (sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation), at the National Gallery of Art, Washingt | 21 11 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism | The third of Isaiah Berlin's famous 1965 Mellon Lectures In March–April 1965 Isaiah Berlin delivered his most famous series of public lectures, the A. W. Mellon Lectures (sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation), at the National Gallery of Art, Washingt | 21 11 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment | The second of Isaiah Berlin's famous 1965 Mellon Lectures In March–April 1965 Isaiah Berlin delivered his most famous series of public lectures, the A. W. Mellon Lectures (sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation), at the National Gallery of Art, Washing | 27 10 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin | Howard Burton talks to Henry Hardy, Fellow of Wolfson and author of ‘In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure’, about being the principal editor of one of the twentieth century’s most captivating public intellectuals This podcast for the I | 30 9 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 1 – In Search of a Definition | The first of Isaiah Berlin's famous 1965 Mellon Lectures In March–April 1965 Isaiah Berlin delivered his most famous series of public lectures, the A. W. Mellon Lectures (sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation), at the National Gallery of Art, Washingt | 7 9 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century | Lecture by Isaiah Berlin on 5 October 1964 to the conference on ‘One Hundred Years of Revolutionary Internationals’ held at Stanford University to mark the centenary of the First International Working Men’s Association The full text from which the | 3 9 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Political Judgement | A 1957 BBC Third Programme talk by Isaiah Berlin on the distinctiveness of the understanding and judgement we deploy in human affairs, especially in the field of politics 'What is it to have good judgement in politics? What is it to be politically wise, | 3 9 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anna Akhmatova reading her poems about Isaiah Berlin in Oxford in 1965 | This podcast is in Russian. This short recording includes 'Cinque' and other poems inspired by the poet's meetings with Isaiah Berlin. The celebrated Russian poet Anna Akhmatova came to Oxford at Isaiah Berlin's instigation in June 1965, a year before h | 23 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition | Isaiah Berlin gives the first of his Gauss Seminars at Princeton University on 'The Origins of Cultural History', 19 February 1973 Transcript at: https://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/origins1.pdf Transcript at: https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox | 31 7 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes | Isaiah Berlin gives the second of his three Gauss Seminars at Princeton University on 'The Origins of Cultural History', 20 February 1973 Transcript at https://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/origins2.pdf Transcript at: https://isaiah-berlin.wolfso | 31 7 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians | Isaiah Berlin gives the third of his three Gauss Seminars at Princeton University on 'The Origins of Cultural History', 22 February 1973 Transcript at https://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/origins3.pdf and https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/ca | 31 7 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre | Isaiah Berlin gives the third of his four Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University, New York, 27 October 1965 Transcript at https://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf. Recordings have been found only of the second and third lectures. | 31 7 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 2 – J. G. Hamann | Isaiah Berlin gives the second of his four Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University, New York, 26 October 1965 Transcript at https://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/hamann.pdf. Recordings have been found only of the second and third lectures. | 31 7 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Very Personal Impression: Isaiah Berlin | This talk was given at Wolfson College on 28 May 2009 as part of the 'Lives and Works' series of lectures | 3 6 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Communism to Zionism: Moses Hess (1957) | 1957 Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture. Lecture on the Jewish philosopher Moses Hess, one of the founders of Zionism and a committed Socialist. Berlin also discusses Hess’s evolution as a philosopher, from International Socialism to Zionism. Published in | 15 4 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Fire at Sea (1957) | Isaiah Berlin introduces and reads his translation of Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev's short story 'A Fire at Sea', in which Turgenev recounts an embarrassing episode from his youth. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 23 July 1957. Publi | 15 4 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alexander Herzen: His Opinions and Character (1955) | Lecture on Alexander Herzen, philosopher and founder of Russia’s first free press. Berlin discusses Herzen’s passionate belief in individual liberty and his distaste for the new violent radicalism in the Russia of his time. The last of four Northcli | 15 4 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952) | Berlin lectures on Rousseau's 'On the Social Contract' and discusses his anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritarian implications of his philosophy. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1952. The only rec | 14 4 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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