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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... discussed his evaporating faith in immortality, an exchange of views which almost certainly led to the tutor getting the sack. Free will, belief in immortality, then in God, all went overboard one by one. The pilgrimage from faith to ...
... discussed his evaporating faith in immortality, an exchange of views which almost certainly led to the tutor getting the sack. Free will, belief in immortality, then in God, all went overboard one by one. The pilgrimage from faith to ...
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... discussed. Meetings usually went on into the small hours and often ended with Sunday breakfast, followed by a long walk during which the argument was continued. For Russell the greatest happiness of his time at Cambridge was connected ...
... discussed. Meetings usually went on into the small hours and often ended with Sunday breakfast, followed by a long walk during which the argument was continued. For Russell the greatest happiness of his time at Cambridge was connected ...
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... discussed the Zeitgeist & my people and God knows what – & finally she discovered to her surprise that it was half-past twelve ... M. is interesting on all sex questions & has told me many things wh. I was glad to know. Mary was also ...
... discussed the Zeitgeist & my people and God knows what – & finally she discovered to her surprise that it was half-past twelve ... M. is interesting on all sex questions & has told me many things wh. I was glad to know. Mary was also ...
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... discussed philosophy for some time. I vexed him very much (quite unintentionally) by saying that in philosophical discussion, so far as I could see, one arrives usually at an ultimate difference as to premisses, where argument is no ...
... discussed philosophy for some time. I vexed him very much (quite unintentionally) by saying that in philosophical discussion, so far as I could see, one arrives usually at an ultimate difference as to premisses, where argument is no ...
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... discussed later', and that it would be at least six months before he was able to make a further attack on it. As it turned out, the greater part of what was to become The Principles of Mathematics had to be rewritten several times ...
... discussed later', and that it would be at least six months before he was able to make a further attack on it. As it turned out, the greater part of what was to become The Principles of Mathematics had to be rewritten several times ...
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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