The Life of Bertrand RussellThe eloquent and intimate biography of one of the most significant figures of the last century. Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Born into the high world of the Whig aristocracy, among people for whom Waterloo was still almost a personal memory, Russell lived to inspire the campaign against nuclear warfare. He was imprisoned in 1918 for his Pacifism. Ronald Clark, with access to a mass of material, provides a fascinating and graphic portrait of the man. There is virtually no aspect of Russell's long life to which something new - and often unexpected - is not added by this remarkable and incisive book. |
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Ronald Clark. Contents. Preface The Reason Why 1 The Lodge in the Park 2 Cambridge Chrysalis 3 Marriage in Haste 4 Repentance at Leisure 5 Principia Mathematica The New Romantic 6 Ottoline 7 Enter Wittgenstein 8 Ottoline: Ebbing Tide 9 An ...
Ronald Clark. Contents. Preface The Reason Why 1 The Lodge in the Park 2 Cambridge Chrysalis 3 Marriage in Haste 4 Repentance at Leisure 5 Principia Mathematica The New Romantic 6 Ottoline 7 Enter Wittgenstein 8 Ottoline: Ebbing Tide 9 An ...
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... came through was a strong line in mathematics. Therefore Cambridge, to which Lord Amberley had gone, was chosen rather than Oxford. A contributing factor may have been the record of Frank, who had spent two years at Cambridge Chrysalis.
... came through was a strong line in mathematics. Therefore Cambridge, to which Lord Amberley had gone, was chosen rather than Oxford. A contributing factor may have been the record of Frank, who had spent two years at Cambridge Chrysalis.
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... Cambridge lasted until death stepped in; many were to play significant parts in his professional or private life. There was Charles Sanger, who had gone up in the same term, also read mathematics, and who accompanied him on walking ...
... Cambridge lasted until death stepped in; many were to play significant parts in his professional or private life. There was Charles Sanger, who had gone up in the same term, also read mathematics, and who accompanied him on walking ...
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... Cambridge from self-imposed wartime exile in 1944. There was Ellis McTaggart, six years Russell's senior, a staunch upholder of Hegelian Idealism, who called himself an atheist but firmly believed in personal immortality – 'the bumbling ...
... Cambridge from self-imposed wartime exile in 1944. There was Ellis McTaggart, six years Russell's senior, a staunch upholder of Hegelian Idealism, who called himself an atheist but firmly believed in personal immortality – 'the bumbling ...
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... Cambridge, invited Moore to meet McTaggart for tea in his rooms. 'McTaggart, in the course of conversation [was] led to express his well-known view that Time is unreal', said Moore in recalling the occasion. 'This must have seemed to me ...
... Cambridge, invited Moore to meet McTaggart for tea in his rooms. 'McTaggart, in the course of conversation [was] led to express his well-known view that Time is unreal', said Moore in recalling the occasion. 'This must have seemed to me ...
Contents
Principia Mathematica | |
The New Romantic | |
A Long March Downhill | |
Start of an Experiment | |
End of an Experiment | |
The American Ordeal | |
A Member of the Establishment | |
The Last Attachment | |
Towards a Short War with Russia? | |
Into the New World | |
Ottoline | |
Enter Wittgenstein | |
Ebbing Tide | |
An American Adventure | |
Against the Stream | |
Into Battle | |
Colette | |
From War to Peace | |
TurningPoint | |
The Genesis of Protest | |
The Rise of Ralph Schoenman | |
The Enigmatic Friendship | |
Once More His Own | |
Private Memorandum concerning Ralph | |
Sources and Bibliography | |
Notes and References | |
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