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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... become part of history and, as such, vulnerable to dissection and revision. But his spirit survived, buoyed up with an optimism which owed nothing to hope of a next world, unqualified by the wrath to come. After all, he was a Russell ...
... become part of history and, as such, vulnerable to dissection and revision. But his spirit survived, buoyed up with an optimism which owed nothing to hope of a next world, unqualified by the wrath to come. After all, he was a Russell ...
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... become a godfather. In due course he accepted and a second godfather was discovered in Thomas Cobden-Sanderson. Family friend and an old admirer of Kate Stanley, he was later the founder of the Doves Press, a bookbinder and printer 'of ...
... become a godfather. In due course he accepted and a second godfather was discovered in Thomas Cobden-Sanderson. Family friend and an old admirer of Kate Stanley, he was later the founder of the Doves Press, a bookbinder and printer 'of ...
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... become inhabitants of a neighbourhood not unlike the Portmeirion peninsula on which Russell ended his days, an area thickly laced with good intentions and high ideals where an intellectual could be found on almost every large stone. The ...
... become inhabitants of a neighbourhood not unlike the Portmeirion peninsula on which Russell ended his days, an area thickly laced with good intentions and high ideals where an intellectual could be found on almost every large stone. The ...
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... become Mrs Webb, and quickly put Russell among her 'A's' – 'aristocratic, anarchic and artistic' – compared with the 'B's', among whom she included herself and her future husband, 'bourgeois, bureaucratic and benevolent'. The ...
... become Mrs Webb, and quickly put Russell among her 'A's' – 'aristocratic, anarchic and artistic' – compared with the 'B's', among whom she included herself and her future husband, 'bourgeois, bureaucratic and benevolent'. The ...
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... become a Hegelian', Russell has written. I remember the precise moment, one day in 1894, as I was walking along Trinity Lane, when I saw in a flash (or thought I saw) that the ontological argument is valid. I had gone out to buy a tin ...
... become a Hegelian', Russell has written. I remember the precise moment, one day in 1894, as I was walking along Trinity Lane, when I saw in a flash (or thought I saw) that the ontological argument is valid. I had gone out to buy a tin ...
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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