Isaiah Berlin

About 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.

Publisher

Oxford University

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Apr 2009

Latest episode

1 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Dec 2025

   The Romantic Revolution in Politics and Morals

   A recently discovered good-quality recording of a lecture delivered by Berlin at Washington University in St Louis on 19 March 1969.

2. 

   21 Nov 2021

   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, Washington, DC. The lectures were entitled 'Some Sources of Romanticism', and transcripts were published posthumously as 'The Roots of Romanticism', edited by Henry Hardy (London, 1999: Chatto and Windus; Princeton, 1999: Princeton University Press). A second edition was published by Princeton in 2013, with a new foreword by John Gray and an appendix containing contemporary letters about the lectures.

3. 

   21 Nov 2021

   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, Washington, DC. The lectures were entitled 'Some Sources of Romanticism', and transcripts were published posthumously as 'The Roots of Romanticism', edited by Henry Hardy (London, 1999: Chatto and Windus; Princeton, 1999: Princeton University Press). A second edition was published by Princeton in 2013, with a new foreword by John Gray and an appendix containing contemporary letters about the lectures.

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