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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... began to reveal themselves during Russell's undergraduate years. This was acknowledged early in 1892 by his election to the Society. Founded in 1820 as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, and by this time known as the Apostles since ...
... began to reveal themselves during Russell's undergraduate years. This was acknowledged early in 1892 by his election to the Society. Founded in 1820 as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, and by this time known as the Apostles since ...
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... began to take over. 'In Britain rain comes from Ireland, and Idealism from Germany,' Russell observed of the period. There were many variants of the Idealist belief, but that to which Russell subscribed was the Absolute Idealism derived ...
... began to take over. 'In Britain rain comes from Ireland, and Idealism from Germany,' Russell observed of the period. There were many variants of the Idealist belief, but that to which Russell subscribed was the Absolute Idealism derived ...
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... Leibniz's 'the best of all possible worlds' the comment 'and everything in it is a necessary evil', and the singlemindedness to produce Appearance and Reality, a distillation of Hegelian ideas which in 1893 began to wrest the philosophical.
... Leibniz's 'the best of all possible worlds' the comment 'and everything in it is a necessary evil', and the singlemindedness to produce Appearance and Reality, a distillation of Hegelian ideas which in 1893 began to wrest the philosophical.
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Ronald Clark. Hegelian ideas which in 1893 began to wrest the philosophical initiative from the Continent. This was not the first of Bradley which Russell had read. His Principles of Logic was on Joachim's reading-list and Russell, who ...
Ronald Clark. Hegelian ideas which in 1893 began to wrest the philosophical initiative from the Continent. This was not the first of Bradley which Russell had read. His Principles of Logic was on Joachim's reading-list and Russell, who ...
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... began to spread, Russell's Aunt Maude sent him a warning. 'I hope this is not so,' she said, 'for if you thought you wd. be too young to enter Parliament before you were 29 I must think it would be a great pity for you to engage yr.self ...
... began to spread, Russell's Aunt Maude sent him a warning. 'I hope this is not so,' she said, 'for if you thought you wd. be too young to enter Parliament before you were 29 I must think it would be a great pity for you to engage yr.self ...
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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