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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... hell. The first real change came when he was sent to a crammer's school at Old Southgate, North London, to prepare for a scholarship to university. He had looked forward to it. 'I feel being where there is some life would do me so much.
... hell. The first real change came when he was sent to a crammer's school at Old Southgate, North London, to prepare for a scholarship to university. He had looked forward to it. 'I feel being where there is some life would do me so much.
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... London Lady Russell, faced with fast-diminishing hope that, with two thirds of the course run, Paris would succeed in its expected task, fell conveniently unwell. The misfortune was counter-productive. 'It is sad that my Grandma should ...
... London Lady Russell, faced with fast-diminishing hope that, with two thirds of the course run, Paris would succeed in its expected task, fell conveniently unwell. The misfortune was counter-productive. 'It is sad that my Grandma should ...
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... London's St Martin's Lane, with Charles Trevelyan running a book in penny bets on the chances of someone speaking during the Friends' period of silence. None of the Russells was present. The bridegroom had, moreover, received a letter ...
... London's St Martin's Lane, with Charles Trevelyan running a book in penny bets on the chances of someone speaking during the Friends' period of silence. None of the Russells was present. The bridegroom had, moreover, received a letter ...
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... London School of Economics, and German Social Democracy. To the book, Alys contributed an appendix – a pointer to the way in which Russell was to co-opt his wives into his work. Russell's appearance as one of the first speakers at the ...
... London School of Economics, and German Social Democracy. To the book, Alys contributed an appendix – a pointer to the way in which Russell was to co-opt his wives into his work. Russell's appearance as one of the first speakers at the ...
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... London, usually staying in the Pearsall Smiths' town-house in Belgravia; sometimes to Cambridge where he talked 'shop' with Whitehead, Moore, McTaggart and anyone else willing to join in. In Cambridge, also, he worked for a time at the ...
... London, usually staying in the Pearsall Smiths' town-house in Belgravia; sometimes to Cambridge where he talked 'shop' with Whitehead, Moore, McTaggart and anyone else willing to join in. In Cambridge, also, he worked for a time at the ...
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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