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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... Whitehead, just twenty-nine and, by a turn of the cards that was to affect Russell's entire life, the Trinity examiner. A kindly man already showing a detachment from real life as well as signs of the forgetfulness for which he later ...
... Whitehead, just twenty-nine and, by a turn of the cards that was to affect Russell's entire life, the Trinity examiner. A kindly man already showing a detachment from real life as well as signs of the forgetfulness for which he later ...
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... Whitehead said to me: “I was justified because you beat him in the Tripos.” ' Having thus backed his fancy, Whitehead took the young man under his wing when in October 1890 Russell settled into rooms in Whewell's Court. The teacher ...
... Whitehead said to me: “I was justified because you beat him in the Tripos.” ' Having thus backed his fancy, Whitehead took the young man under his wing when in October 1890 Russell settled into rooms in Whewell's Court. The teacher ...
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... Whitehead continued in Principia Mathe-matica. Russell's answer, which he believed had at last 'solved all philosophical questions connected with the foundations of geometry', held that projective geometry was wholly a priori, dealing ...
... Whitehead continued in Principia Mathe-matica. Russell's answer, which he believed had at last 'solved all philosophical questions connected with the foundations of geometry', held that projective geometry was wholly a priori, dealing ...
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Ronald Clark. chances, I thought, when Whitehead told me. So I don't think I shall be elected tomorrow, and I suspect that I am not much good at Philosophy ... Adieu to sweet dreams.' But the following day he was elected, and Whitehead ...
Ronald Clark. chances, I thought, when Whitehead told me. So I don't think I shall be elected tomorrow, and I suspect that I am not much good at Philosophy ... Adieu to sweet dreams.' But the following day he was elected, and Whitehead ...
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... Whitehead, Moore, McTaggart and anyone else willing to join in. In Cambridge, also, he worked for a time at the principles of dynamics. 'I went to the Cavendish Lab and I studied Clerk Maxwell', he later wrote. 'Gradually I found that ...
... Whitehead, Moore, McTaggart and anyone else willing to join in. In Cambridge, also, he worked for a time at the principles of dynamics. 'I went to the Cavendish Lab and I studied Clerk Maxwell', he later wrote. 'Gradually I found that ...
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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