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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... 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.
... 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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... University Moral Science Club. Russell had joined in February 1891, a few months after coming up, and Moore in his turn joined soon after arriving. Russell was a frequent attender and over the next two decades often used the club as a ...
... University Moral Science Club. Russell had joined in February 1891, a few months after coming up, and Moore in his turn joined soon after arriving. Russell was a frequent attender and over the next two decades often used the club as a ...
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... University into higher philosophy'. They met in each other's rooms in succession, on Saturday nights, to hear the host read a paper which was afterwards discussed. Meetings usually went on into the small hours and often ended with ...
... University into higher philosophy'. They met in each other's rooms in succession, on Saturday nights, to hear the host read a paper which was afterwards discussed. Meetings usually went on into the small hours and often ended with ...
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... University and reading steadily for the paper, part philosophical, part mathematical, that he planned to submit as thesis for a Trinity Fellowship. Russell, approaching twenty-three, still unknown to fame, already had the ability to ...
... University and reading steadily for the paper, part philosophical, part mathematical, that he planned to submit as thesis for a Trinity Fellowship. Russell, approaching twenty-three, still unknown to fame, already had the ability to ...
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... University there was a secret Social Democratic Society but that all the members of the Student Corps were conservative. The investigation gave Russell an early dislike of the military. He wrote to his grandmother We know no Prussian ...
... University there was a secret Social Democratic Society but that all the members of the Student Corps were conservative. The investigation gave Russell an early dislike of the military. He wrote to his grandmother We know no Prussian ...
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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