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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... called his preventivewar phase. Russell's letters to Lucy Donnelly, to Lady Constance Malleson and above all to Lady Ottoline Morrell will, when published in full, reveal the deep emotional complexities of a man for whom no venture was ...
... called his preventivewar phase. Russell's letters to Lucy Donnelly, to Lady Constance Malleson and above all to Lady Ottoline Morrell will, when published in full, reveal the deep emotional complexities of a man for whom no venture was ...
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... called out to Williams to tell Richards to harness Fenella. Ten minutes later I went down & ordered Richards to go as fast as possible for the doctor. He was not ready & could not start at once. Soon after this Kate went to bed; pains ...
... called out to Williams to tell Richards to harness Fenella. Ten minutes later I went down & ordered Richards to go as fast as possible for the doctor. He was not ready & could not start at once. Soon after this Kate went to bed; pains ...
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... called the appalling misery of knowing nothing about sex, and Granny was given the blame. Part explanation lies elsewhere, in the influence of exterior circumstance on his judgement. In 1931, when his second marriage was breaking up and ...
... called the appalling misery of knowing nothing about sex, and Granny was given the blame. Part explanation lies elsewhere, in the influence of exterior circumstance on his judgement. In 1931, when his second marriage was breaking up and ...
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... called with his nephew at Friday's Hill half-way through a long summer's walk, ostensibly on the spur of the moment but more probably for a first look at a remarkable group of near-neighbours. Russell was seventeen. He fell in love with ...
... called with his nephew at Friday's Hill half-way through a long summer's walk, ostensibly on the spur of the moment but more probably for a first look at a remarkable group of near-neighbours. Russell was seventeen. He fell in love with ...
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... called a princely education, but one which was a little like cultivating tropical flowers under electric light in a steaming greenhouse. The instruction was well selected, competently given, and absorbed with intense thirst; but it was ...
... called a princely education, but one which was a little like cultivating tropical flowers under electric light in a steaming greenhouse. The instruction was well selected, competently given, and absorbed with intense thirst; but it was ...
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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