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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... difficult operation in the then state of the art but one from which most attachés shrank. Menial tasks, such as copying out 'long dispatches attempting to persuade the French Government that a lobster is not a fish', were shared equally ...
... difficult operation in the then state of the art but one from which most attachés shrank. Menial tasks, such as copying out 'long dispatches attempting to persuade the French Government that a lobster is not a fish', were shared equally ...
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... difficult, but the necessary spirit urged me on. Then she repeated a host of poetry, rather well – & then we discussed the Zeitgeist & my people and God knows what – & finally she discovered to her surprise that it was half-past twelve ...
... difficult, but the necessary spirit urged me on. Then she repeated a host of poetry, rather well – & then we discussed the Zeitgeist & my people and God knows what – & finally she discovered to her surprise that it was half-past twelve ...
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... difficult for any man to have resisted this woman who freely provided 'the whole history of her life -from her pt. of view – vividly described, with all the little touches that bring conviction – all about her attempts to accommodate ...
... difficult for any man to have resisted this woman who freely provided 'the whole history of her life -from her pt. of view – vividly described, with all the little touches that bring conviction – all about her attempts to accommodate ...
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... difficult to convert, and after his host had once conducted him on a marathon expedition round the Uffizi Russell summed up: 'I've looked at everything you wanted me to look at; I've listened to all you've said; but the pictures still ...
... difficult to convert, and after his host had once conducted him on a marathon expedition round the Uffizi Russell summed up: 'I've looked at everything you wanted me to look at; I've listened to all you've said; but the pictures still ...
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... difficult problems. As early as December 1897 Russell gave the first hint of what was corning. He was, he then told Moore, writing 'a rather scratch sort of paper, as I am having what revivalists call “a dry time”. I have called it ...
... difficult problems. As early as December 1897 Russell gave the first hint of what was corning. He was, he then told Moore, writing 'a rather scratch sort of paper, as I am having what revivalists call “a dry time”. I have called it ...
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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