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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... Gilbert Murray and settled at Churt, just across the Surrey border. He read extensively. He passed his Fellowship Thesis through the press as a book. He travelled frequently to London, usually staying in the Pearsall Smiths' town-house ...
... Gilbert Murray and settled at Churt, just across the Surrey border. He read extensively. He passed his Fellowship Thesis through the press as a book. He travelled frequently to London, usually staying in the Pearsall Smiths' town-house ...
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... Gilbert Murray's house through a rain-soaked, bracken-covered landscape that would have delighted Kipling: It was an exquisite moment: tender, calm, with melancholy melted into almost joyous resignation and a picture of the old age ...
... Gilbert Murray's house through a rain-soaked, bracken-covered landscape that would have delighted Kipling: It was an exquisite moment: tender, calm, with melancholy melted into almost joyous resignation and a picture of the old age ...
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... Gilbert Murray in September, from the Mill House, where he was staying with the Whiteheads. I created, with all an artist's passion for the perfect, a new treatment of Symbolic Logic, and to my joy Whitehead finds that it has all the ...
... Gilbert Murray in September, from the Mill House, where he was staying with the Whiteheads. I created, with all an artist's passion for the perfect, a new treatment of Symbolic Logic, and to my joy Whitehead finds that it has all the ...
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... Gilbert Murray of his then unpublished Hippolytus. Murray and Russell had been acquaintances for many years. Only now, following the impact of the Hippolytus, did they become friends. Russell returned to Downing College deeply moved ...
... Gilbert Murray of his then unpublished Hippolytus. Murray and Russell had been acquaintances for many years. Only now, following the impact of the Hippolytus, did they become friends. Russell returned to Downing College deeply moved ...
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... Gilbert Murray. 'Though town is a very new departure, I expect to find it interesting, and on the whole not a waste of time ...' But the optimism soon passed and there began 'strange months in town, where I learnt to be a social being ...
... Gilbert Murray. 'Though town is a very new departure, I expect to find it interesting, and on the whole not a waste of time ...' But the optimism soon passed and there began 'strange months in town, where I learnt to be a social being ...
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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