20 Episodes

  1. Some Sources of Romanticism: 6 – The Lasting Effects

    Published: 11/21/2021
  2. Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics

    Published: 11/21/2021
  3. Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism

    Published: 11/21/2021
  4. Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism

    Published: 11/21/2021
  5. Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment

    Published: 10/27/2021
  6. Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin

    Published: 9/30/2021
  7. Some Sources of Romanticism: 1 – In Search of a Definition

    Published: 9/7/2021
  8. The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century

    Published: 9/3/2021
  9. Political Judgement

    Published: 9/3/2021
  10. Anna Akhmatova reading her poems about Isaiah Berlin in Oxford in 1965

    Published: 5/23/2014
  11. The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition

    Published: 7/31/2013
  12. The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes

    Published: 7/31/2013
  13. The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians

    Published: 7/31/2013
  14. Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre

    Published: 7/31/2013
  15. Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 2 – J. G. Hamann

    Published: 7/31/2013
  16. A Very Personal Impression: Isaiah Berlin

    Published: 6/3/2009
  17. From Communism to Zionism: Moses Hess (1957)

    Published: 4/15/2009
  18. A Fire at Sea (1957)

    Published: 4/15/2009
  19. Alexander Herzen: His Opinions and Character (1955)

    Published: 4/15/2009
  20. Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952)

    Published: 4/14/2009

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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.