Anna Akhmatova reading her poems about Isaiah Berlin in Oxford in 1965
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 grea...
Isaiah Berlin Centenary
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A series of podcasts to mark the centenary of the birth on 6th June 1909 of Isaiah Berlin, founding President of Wolfson College, Oxford University and regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the 20th century.
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 lectures on The Origins of Cultural History on February 19th 1973.
The Origins of Cultural History 2; Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes
Isaiah Berlin gives the second of his lectures on the origins of cultural history.
The Origins of Cultural History 3; The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians
Isaiah Berlin gives the third and final lecture on the origins of cultural history.
Two Enemies of Enlightenment: 2; Joseph de Maistre
Isaiah Berlin gives a lecture on Joseph de Maistre on October 27th 1965.
Two Enemies of Enlightenment: 1; J G Hamann
Isaiah Berlin gives a lecture on J G Hamann on October 26th 1965.
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...
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 emba...
Alexander Herzen: His Opinions and Character (1955)
Lecture on Alexander Herzen, philosopher and founder of Russia’s first free press. He discusses Herzen’s passionate belief in individual liberty and h...
Freedom and its Betrayal: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1952)
Berlin lectures on Rousseau's The Social Contract and discusses Rousseau's anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritar...