Podcasts by Isaiah Berlin
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 from 2021-11-21T11:55:23
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 ...
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics from 2021-11-21T11:52:54
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 Bollinge...
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism from 2021-11-21T11:51:40
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...
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism from 2021-11-21T11:38:22
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...
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment from 2021-10-27T12:03:40
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 Bollinge...
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Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin from 2021-09-30T17:00:57
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 capti...
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Some Sources of Romanticism: 1 – In Search of a Definition from 2021-09-07T13:40:58
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...
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The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century from 2021-09-03T12:19:48
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 Work...
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Political Judgement from 2021-09-03T11:44:56
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 j...
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Anna Akhmatova reading her poems about Isaiah Berlin in Oxford in 1965 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The podcast is in russian. This short recording includes Cinque and a number of other poems inspired by her meetings with Isaiah Berlin. When the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova came to Oxford in...
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The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition from 2013-07-31T19:26:32
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/origins...
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The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes from 2013-07-31T19:23:58
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/o...
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The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians from 2013-07-31T19:21:27
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/or...
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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre from 2013-07-31T19:18:07
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 hav...
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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre from 2013-07-31T19:18:07
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 hav...
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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 2 – J. G. Hamann from 2013-07-31T19:16:07
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 hav...
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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 2 – J. G. Hamann from 2013-07-31T19:16:07
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 hav...
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A Very Personal Impression: Isaiah Berlin from 2009-06-03T16:05:36
This talk was given at Wolfson College on 28 May 2009 as part of the 'Lives and Works' series of lectures
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From Communism to Zionism: Moses Hess (1957) from 2009-04-15T14:25:44
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, ...
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A Fire at Sea (1957) from 2009-04-15T14:22:05
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 bro...
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Alexander Herzen: His Opinions and Character (1955) from 2009-04-15T14:18:46
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 ...
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Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952) from 2009-04-14T12:39:23
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 br...
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Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952) from 2009-04-14T12:39:23
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 br...
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