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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... the state'. The words, significantly enough, were written about his father by Bertrand Russell, long expected to enter the family business of helping to run Britain. In 1868 Lady Amberley gave birth to a daughter, Rachel,
... the state'. The words, significantly enough, were written about his father by Bertrand Russell, long expected to enter the family business of helping to run Britain. In 1868 Lady Amberley gave birth to a daughter, Rachel,
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... expected'. Russell, taking a friend's young son on his knee eighty years later, described how he himself had been taken on Queen Victoria's knee, a tribute either to memory or imagination. There was another incident which he remembered ...
... expected'. Russell, taking a friend's young son on his knee eighty years later, described how he himself had been taken on Queen Victoria's knee, a tribute either to memory or imagination. There was another incident which he remembered ...
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... expected that Russell's schoolroom should in practice be Lord John's library. His account of it gives a hint of the iconoclasm to come. 'There were three huge folio volumes called L'Art de vérifier les dates', he has said. They were too ...
... expected that Russell's schoolroom should in practice be Lord John's library. His account of it gives a hint of the iconoclasm to come. 'There were three huge folio volumes called L'Art de vérifier les dates', he has said. They were too ...
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... expected to lead, had resulted in what Santayana 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 ...
... expected to lead, had resulted in what Santayana 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 ...
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... expected pattern. Few legends of these days have survived, and even fewer details, but one corner of the veil is lifted by the history of the Magpie and Stump Debating Society. Russell's recorded interventions on the stage of this ...
... expected pattern. Few legends of these days have survived, and even fewer details, but one corner of the veil is lifted by the history of the Magpie and Stump Debating Society. Russell's recorded interventions on the stage of this ...
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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