Isaiah Berlin
Episodes
The Romantic Revolution in Politics and Morals
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recently discovered good-quality recording of a lecture delivered by Berlin at Washington University in St Louis on 19 March 1969.
Some Sources of Romanticism: 6 – The Lasting Effects
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 lectu...
Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Burton talks to Henry Hardy, Fellow of Wolfson and author of ‘In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure’, about being the principal ...
Some Sources of Romanticism: 1 – In Search of a Definition
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Some Sources of Romanticism: 1 – In Search of a Definition
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Isaiah Berlin on 5 October 1964 to the conference on ‘One Hundred Years of Revolutionary Internationals’ held at Stanford University to...
Political Judgement
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A 1957 BBC Third Programme talk by Isaiah Berlin on the distinctiveness of the understanding and judgement we deploy in human affairs, especially in t...
Anna Akhmatova reading her poems about Isaiah Berlin in Oxford in 1965
23 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is in Russian. This short recording includes 'Cinque' and other poems inspired by the poet's meetings with Isaiah Berlin. The celebrated ...
The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Isaiah Berlin gives the first of his Gauss Seminars at Princeton University on 'The Origins of Cultural History', 19 February 1973 Transcript at: http...
The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Isaiah Berlin gives the second of his three Gauss Seminars at Princeton University on 'The Origins of Cultural History', 20 February 1973 Transcript a...
The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Isaiah Berlin gives the third of his three Gauss Seminars at Princeton University on 'The Origins of Cultural History', 22 February 1973 Transcript at...
Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Isaiah Berlin gives the third of his four Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University, New York, 27 October 1965 Transcript at https://berlin.wolf.ox.a...
Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 2 – J. G. Hamann
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Isaiah Berlin gives the second of his four Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University, New York, 26 October 1965 Transcript at https://berlin.wolf.ox....
A Very Personal Impression: Isaiah Berlin
03 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
This talk was given at Wolfson College on 28 May 2009 as part of the 'Lives and Works' series of lectures
From Communism to Zionism: Moses Hess (1957)
15 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
1957 Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture. Lecture on the Jewish philosopher Moses Hess, one of the founders of Zionism and a committed Socialist. Berlin als...
A Fire at Sea (1957)
15 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Isaiah Berlin introduces and reads his translation of Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev's short story 'A Fire at Sea', in which Turgenev recounts an emba...
Alexander Herzen: His Opinions and Character (1955)
15 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture on Alexander Herzen, philosopher and founder of Russia’s first free press. Berlin discusses Herzen’s passionate belief in individual liber...
Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952)
14 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Berlin lectures on Rousseau's 'On the Social Contract' and discusses his anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritaria...