IBVL

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Isaiah Berlin working in Paraggi, 1969, the year in which Four Essays on Liberty was published: photo courtesy the Berlin familyISAIAH BERLIN (1909 1997) was one of the most celebrated thinkers of the twentieth century. His defence of freedom and diversity against control and uniformity is widely endorsed. His distinction between the monist hedgehog and the pluralist fox, and his celebration of the crooked timber of humanity , have entered the vocabulary of modern culture, together with his widely influential elaboration of the concepts of positive and negative political liberty. A consummate essayist and letter-writer, he was famous for his virtuosity as a lecturer and talker. His distinctive deep, rapid voice was often heard on the radio, and he led many to explore his chosen subject the history of ideas. He founded Oxford s largest graduate college, Wolfson, which expresses his generous, unhidebound personality to this day. one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly improbable in fact happen Isaiah Berlin, Chaim Weizmann (1958)The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library (IBVL) began life in 2000 as the website of The Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust, which looks after all aspects of Berlin s literary estate. It was superseded in this role in February 2018 by Isaiah Berlin Online (IBO), part of the Isaiah Berlin Legacy Project (IBLP) at Wolfson. IBO is curated by the Isaiah Berlin Legacy Fellow, Dr Mark Pottle. The Trust s main tasks have been to publish Berlin s work, including his letters; to maintain this website, where unpublished material and relevant information are posted; and in general to foster awareness of and access to Berlin s intellectual, literary and personal legacy. The primary responsibility for pursuing these objectives now belongs to the IBLP.The IBVL will remain available, at any rate for the time being, while IBO grows. It is hoped that these websites may help bring to light those of Berlin s letters that are still unknown to the Trust (some of which are in library archives, some in private hands), so that copies may be deposited in his archive and transcripts made available in print or online.Selected 2011 18 items available online (latest first): for fuller listings see Facebook and Twitter: from 2019 onwards, items are notified only on these social media platforms, and sometimes in Isaiah Berlin Online2018Judith Wechsler s acclaimed film Isaiah Berlin: Philosopher of Freedom|The 2018 Isaiah Berlin Lecture in Association with the Rothschild Foundation: Aileen Kelly, Isaiah Berlin on Liberty |A short video on the Berlin legacy appeal|Isaiah Berlin Giving Weekend|The first Thai translations of Berlin|A new intellectual biography of Berlin2017Berlin twenty years on| Missing Isaiah Berlin on BBC Radio 4|Michael Ignatieff s biographical interviews with Berlin and others|Part of Anatoly Naiman s 2016 Isaiah Berlin Lecture in Riga|Timothy Snyder s 2017 Isaiah Berlin Lecture in Riga (starts at 9:40)|BBC radio programme to examine Berlin as a public intellectual|New online edition of Berlin s The Age of Enlightenment: The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers|The 2017 Isaiah Berlin Day in Riga|One Week in History: 7 November at JW3|Liberty and Facts: Isaiah Berlin in the Age of Trump|Podcast of Galen Strawson s Berlin Lecture on 25 May|Paris Event on Isaiah Berlin (Association des chercheurs de l Universit Panth on-Assas), 29 May|JW3 exhibition on Berlin and freedom|Watch Berlin s last filmed interview|Yale conference on Berlin|What Berlin has to tell us about Brexit and TrumpUpdating the websiteThe website is in the process of being converted to a new design. The navigation pages and the main catalogues have now been replaced,and the remaining subsidiary pages will follow suit gradually. Apologies for interim inconsistency. Thanks to Joseph Talbot and Nick Hales for advice.

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