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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... arrived at Ravenscroft, a low-built eighteenth-century house standing on a shelf of land at Trelleck above the lower Wye Valley, with a southern view over steepening slopes towards a glimpse of the estuary and a hint of the open sea. 'A.
... arrived at Ravenscroft, a low-built eighteenth-century house standing on a shelf of land at Trelleck above the lower Wye Valley, with a southern view over steepening slopes towards a glimpse of the estuary and a hint of the open sea. 'A.
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... arrived at 5.30 & immediately after he sat down the water broke. Almost at once the head was born, & I heard the baby's first scream. She asked what sex – Audland & Lizzie (who was with him) said 'We cannot tell yet'. In a few minutes ...
... arrived at 5.30 & immediately after he sat down the water broke. Almost at once the head was born, & I heard the baby's first scream. She asked what sex – Audland & Lizzie (who was with him) said 'We cannot tell yet'. In a few minutes ...
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... arrived at a theory very similar to that of the Cartesians. The movements of living bodies, I felt convinced, were wholly regulated by the laws of dynamics. But, since I accepted consciousness as an indubitable datum, I could.
... arrived at a theory very similar to that of the Cartesians. The movements of living bodies, I felt convinced, were wholly regulated by the laws of dynamics. But, since I accepted consciousness as an indubitable datum, I could.
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... arrived at Newhaven. From here, after going on his knees to kiss English soil again, he pencilled a note to Alys which described how he was now 'on English ground once more, my soul brimming with patriotism, enjoying bad tea & bread and ...
... arrived at Newhaven. From here, after going on his knees to kiss English soil again, he pencilled a note to Alys which described how he was now 'on English ground once more, my soul brimming with patriotism, enjoying bad tea & bread and ...
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... arrived a couple of days in advance and called in turn upon Whitehead, referee for the mathematical aspects of the thesis, and upon James Ward, who dealt with its philosophical implications. Neither could of course tell him whether he ...
... arrived a couple of days in advance and called in turn upon Whitehead, referee for the mathematical aspects of the thesis, and upon James Ward, who dealt with its philosophical implications. Neither could of course tell him whether he ...
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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