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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... lord it over palm and pine; when he died, men had walked on the moon. When he was young, men still searched with disinterested delight for the logical heart of mathematics; before he died it had been found and had helped to spawn the ...
... lord it over palm and pine; when he died, men had walked on the moon. When he was young, men still searched with disinterested delight for the logical heart of mathematics; before he died it had been found and had helped to spawn the ...
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... Lord Amberley, son of the 1st Earl Russell who had fought the Reform Bill through Parliament and survived to become Victoria's voice from the past, had been given a comparable though more picturesque background by J. H. Wiffen ...
... Lord Amberley, son of the 1st Earl Russell who had fought the Reform Bill through Parliament and survived to become Victoria's voice from the past, had been given a comparable though more picturesque background by J. H. Wiffen ...
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... Lord Amberley, who suffered from Lord John's fame as much as Russell's own children were to suffer from his, married Kate Stanley on 8 November 1864. He was twenty-one, his wife a few months older. An heir to the title, John Francis ...
... Lord Amberley, who suffered from Lord John's fame as much as Russell's own children were to suffer from his, married Kate Stanley on 8 November 1864. He was twenty-one, his wife a few months older. An heir to the title, John Francis ...
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... Lord John decided to sell son, and the Amberleys spent the early months of 1870 inspecting possible new homes in South Wales. On the morning of 14 April they arrived at Ravenscroft, a low-built eighteenth-century house standing on a ...
... Lord John decided to sell son, and the Amberleys spent the early months of 1870 inspecting possible new homes in South Wales. On the morning of 14 April they arrived at Ravenscroft, a low-built eighteenth-century house standing on a ...
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... Lord John suggested that the child might be called William. Galahad was next proposed but Lady Stanley implored her daughter not to inflict the name on her child. 'Basil', 'Ambrose', 'Godfrey', 'Leo', or 'Lionel' were also considered ...
... Lord John suggested that the child might be called William. Galahad was next proposed but Lady Stanley implored her daughter not to inflict the name on her child. 'Basil', 'Ambrose', 'Godfrey', 'Leo', or 'Lionel' were also considered ...
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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