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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... friends, an essentially romantic approach to subjects as different as mathematics and the Russian Revolution, the problems of pacifism and of the passions, was concealed by cerebral sparkle. In such circumstances any man might appear ...
... friends, an essentially romantic approach to subjects as different as mathematics and the Russian Revolution, the problems of pacifism and of the passions, was concealed by cerebral sparkle. In such circumstances any man might appear ...
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... friends of Horace Walpole she had known. Russell's Stanley grandmother would describe taking tea in Florence with the widow of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender. Lord John had visited Napoleon on Elba. And much conventional ...
... friends of Horace Walpole she had known. Russell's Stanley grandmother would describe taking tea in Florence with the widow of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender. Lord John had visited Napoleon on Elba. And much conventional ...
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... friends compounded the problems of a boy twice-orphaned before he was five. Even Frank, less sensitive, more self-reliant, half-saved by Winchester, suffered from his parents' death and as a result was later wide open to the comforting ...
... friends compounded the problems of a boy twice-orphaned before he was five. Even Frank, less sensitive, more self-reliant, half-saved by Winchester, suffered from his parents' death and as a result was later wide open to the comforting ...
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Ronald Clark. harder to make bosom friends and, worst of all, it has debarred me from free intercourse with my people, and thus made them strangers to some of my deepest thoughts ...' He read Shelley, and wondered whether anyone like him ...
Ronald Clark. harder to make bosom friends and, worst of all, it has debarred me from free intercourse with my people, and thus made them strangers to some of my deepest thoughts ...' He read Shelley, and wondered whether anyone like him ...
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... friend George Santayana. 'It was strange', wrote Santayana, 'to see Bertie, and even his brother, who turned up one ... friends or his wives do. But the Russells never knew themselves or their proper place in the world: that was a part ...
... friend George Santayana. 'It was strange', wrote Santayana, 'to see Bertie, and even his brother, who turned up one ... friends or his wives do. But the Russells never knew themselves or their proper place in the world: that was a part ...
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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