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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... early misfortune is not certain. However, his later admission that he 'failed totally' when trying to give his first wife a child, and his second wife's statement that at the beginning of their relationship he was 'dubious of ever ...
... early misfortune is not certain. However, his later admission that he 'failed totally' when trying to give his first wife a child, and his second wife's statement that at the beginning of their relationship he was 'dubious of ever ...
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... early upbringing, could certainly be conquered and even its existence was not necessarily a misfortune. With an intellect which could easily have created an unbridgeable gulf separating him from the rest, dedicated to mathematics as ...
... early upbringing, could certainly be conquered and even its existence was not necessarily a misfortune. With an intellect which could easily have created an unbridgeable gulf separating him from the rest, dedicated to mathematics as ...
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Ronald Clark. Amberley himself, an old man in his early thirties, lay dying in Ravenscroft. On the morning of 9 January 1876 both sons were brought into the sick room. 'Frank remained sobbing & crying, so that his Father's hand was wet ...
Ronald Clark. Amberley himself, an old man in his early thirties, lay dying in Ravenscroft. On the morning of 9 January 1876 both sons were brought into the sick room. 'Frank remained sobbing & crying, so that his Father's hand was wet ...
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... early signs of the stubborn independence that was eventually to drop over the precipice into eccentricity and worse. Frank had already begun his education at Winchester. His younger brother was to suffer a different fate. 'After the ...
... early signs of the stubborn independence that was eventually to drop over the precipice into eccentricity and worse. Frank had already begun his education at Winchester. His younger brother was to suffer a different fate. 'After the ...
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... early sixteenth century. I was taught English history as the record of a struggle against the King for constitutional liberty. William Lord Russell, who was executed under Charles II, was held up for special admiration, and the ...
... early sixteenth century. I was taught English history as the record of a struggle against the King for constitutional liberty. William Lord Russell, who was executed under Charles II, was held up for special admiration, and the ...
Contents
Repentance at Leisure | |
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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