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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... course of begetting, Olaf produced William, Baron of Briquebec, 'the first that took the name of Bertrand'. The Baron's son, Hugh Bertrand, crossed the Channel in 1066 and, vide Wiffen, the Russells were on their way. Little of this ...
... course of begetting, Olaf produced William, Baron of Briquebec, 'the first that took the name of Bertrand'. The Baron's son, Hugh Bertrand, crossed the Channel in 1066 and, vide Wiffen, the Russells were on their way. Little of this ...
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... 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 admirable taste, fecund and ...
... 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 admirable taste, fecund and ...
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... course plotted by Lady Russell and the succession of governesses and tutors were more questionable. Grandma herself was constantly on the bridge, sparing no one, herself and her grandson least of all. Her aim of putting virtue before ...
... course plotted by Lady Russell and the succession of governesses and tutors were more questionable. Grandma herself was constantly on the bridge, sparing no one, herself and her grandson least of all. Her aim of putting virtue before ...
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... course. Auntie says one ought to think of it as one more person to love, but then Auntie will go away.' A few years later the departure of a former governess who had returned to Pembroke Lodge for a few weeks is followed by a diary ...
... course. Auntie says one ought to think of it as one more person to love, but then Auntie will go away.' A few years later the departure of a former governess who had returned to Pembroke Lodge for a few weeks is followed by a diary ...
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... course of conversation [was] led to express his well-known view that Time is unreal', said Moore in recalling the occasion. 'This must have seemed to me then (as it still does) a perfectly monstrous proposition, and I did my best to ...
... course of conversation [was] led to express his well-known view that Time is unreal', said Moore in recalling the occasion. 'This must have seemed to me then (as it still does) a perfectly monstrous proposition, and I did my best to ...
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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