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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... England's fabric for so long that much knowledge of the external world could be illustrated by reference to some handy ancestor. With Lord John's presence filling every cranny of the place, who needed to be taught about parliamentary ...
... England's fabric for so long that much knowledge of the external world could be illustrated by reference to some handy ancestor. With Lord John's presence filling every cranny of the place, who needed to be taught about parliamentary ...
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... England, I should want to belong to the aristocracy'. At Friday's Hill, Russell met his brother's friend George Santayana. 'It was strange', wrote Santayana, 'to see Bertie, and even his brother, who turned up one day for luncheon, in ...
... England, I should want to belong to the aristocracy'. At Friday's Hill, Russell met his brother's friend George Santayana. 'It was strange', wrote Santayana, 'to see Bertie, and even his brother, who turned up one day for luncheon, in ...
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... England early in September. One of his first acts on arrival in Paris was to write to the Ambassador, then in Ireland, explaining that he wished to stay no longer than the three months, thus making it clear that Lady Russell's manoeuvre ...
... England early in September. One of his first acts on arrival in Paris was to write to the Ambassador, then in Ireland, explaining that he wished to stay no longer than the three months, thus making it clear that Lady Russell's manoeuvre ...
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... England. Nevertheless, given his obedience to her plan, Lady Russell might still have expected it to work. It might have done so had her grandson not been a young man enclosed in his own love; had his grandmother's action not brought a ...
... England. Nevertheless, given his obedience to her plan, Lady Russell might still have expected it to work. It might have done so had her grandson not been a young man enclosed in his own love; had his grandmother's action not brought a ...
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... England? And if Frank takes U.S. nationality, what happens to the peerage? Russell, next in line, may well have wondered. 'He gives me a sense of perpetual discomfort, like a hair-shirt', he confided to Alys. 'I feel the hard rock ...
... England? And if Frank takes U.S. nationality, what happens to the peerage? Russell, next in line, may well have wondered. 'He gives me a sense of perpetual discomfort, like a hair-shirt', he confided to Alys. 'I feel the hard rock ...
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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