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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... believe that he always hoped that a sufficiently strong attraction to some woman would overcome his disability by spontaneous natural means.' The disability, whether due to physical accident or inhibited early upbringing, could ...
... believe that he always hoped that a sufficiently strong attraction to some woman would overcome his disability by spontaneous natural means.' The disability, whether due to physical accident or inhibited early upbringing, could ...
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... believe in God. Ironically enough, Lady Russell's high fervour did her cause little good. The tough physical regime hardened Russell but at the same time generated a permanent allergy to muscular Christianity; the tempering of his ...
... believe in God. Ironically enough, Lady Russell's high fervour did her cause little good. The tough physical regime hardened Russell but at the same time generated a permanent allergy to muscular Christianity; the tempering of his ...
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... believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I ...
... believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I ...
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... believe that time and space are unreal, that matter is an illusion, and that the world really consists of nothing but mind.' He had frequently listened to Hegelian arguments retailed by McTaggart during his first three years at ...
... believe that time and space are unreal, that matter is an illusion, and that the world really consists of nothing but mind.' He had frequently listened to Hegelian arguments retailed by McTaggart during his first three years at ...
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... believe the world wd. be vastly the better for it. Appalled to learn that it was permissible for a Frenchman to make advances to a friend's wife but not to a friend's mistress, shocked at the prostitutes who swarmed round Frank and ...
... believe the world wd. be vastly the better for it. Appalled to learn that it was permissible for a Frenchman to make advances to a friend's wife but not to a friend's mistress, shocked at the prostitutes who swarmed round Frank and ...
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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