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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... title, John Francis Stanley, later known as Frank, was born on 12 August 1865 in, as he put it in his autobiography, 'strict accordance with the best English tradition of family duty'. Two years later Amberley stood for Nottingham.
... title, John Francis Stanley, later known as Frank, was born on 12 August 1865 in, as he put it in his autobiography, 'strict accordance with the best English tradition of family duty'. Two years later Amberley stood for Nottingham.
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... autobiographical account of the period. Even to Lady Ottoline he did not confide the name of the woman for whom he 'killed passion'. She herself, evolving over twenty-five years from mistress to a mother-confessor from whom he was ...
... autobiographical account of the period. Even to Lady Ottoline he did not confide the name of the woman for whom he 'killed passion'. She herself, evolving over twenty-five years from mistress to a mother-confessor from whom he was ...
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... autobiography twenty years after telling Ottoline. The repercussions of this incident were to spread out in widening circles, and at least one aspect of its link with Russell's eventual breach with his wife was described a decade later ...
... autobiography twenty years after telling Ottoline. The repercussions of this incident were to spread out in widening circles, and at least one aspect of its link with Russell's eventual breach with his wife was described a decade later ...
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... autobiography. At the time it looked different. With the revelation, the emotional obscurities of the past year became clear. To Ottoline he later explained how, before he loved her, he had loved Alys; and how, in between, in 1902 ...
... autobiography. At the time it looked different. With the revelation, the emotional obscurities of the past year became clear. To Ottoline he later explained how, before he loved her, he had loved Alys; and how, in between, in 1902 ...
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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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