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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... future husband, 'bourgeois, bureaucratic and benevolent'. The attractions of Friday's Hill for the young Russell, his questioning mind no longer hemmed in by the psychological boundaries of Pembroke Lodge, were strong and obvious ...
... future husband, 'bourgeois, bureaucratic and benevolent'. The attractions of Friday's Hill for the young Russell, his questioning mind no longer hemmed in by the psychological boundaries of Pembroke Lodge, were strong and obvious ...
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... future. All that came through was a strong line in mathematics. Therefore Cambridge, to which Lord Amberley had gone, was chosen rather than Oxford. A contributing factor may have been the record of Frank, who had spent two years at ...
... future. All that came through was a strong line in mathematics. Therefore Cambridge, to which Lord Amberley had gone, was chosen rather than Oxford. A contributing factor may have been the record of Frank, who had spent two years at ...
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... future, followed the 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 ...
... future, followed the 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 ...
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... future, if he really wished to work for a living, seemed to lie in politics or the diplomatic service -after a suitable interval during which he might be expected to play around on the periphery of academic work and pick himself a wife ...
... future, if he really wished to work for a living, seemed to lie in politics or the diplomatic service -after a suitable interval during which he might be expected to play around on the periphery of academic work and pick himself a wife ...
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... future sister-in-law, later to become Mrs Bernard Berenson, with whom he shared the last week of his stay in Paris on extraordinarily intimate terms. From the start of the separation from Alys, the Russell of many wives, still forming ...
... future sister-in-law, later to become Mrs Bernard Berenson, with whom he shared the last week of his stay in Paris on extraordinarily intimate terms. From the start of the separation from Alys, the Russell of many wives, still forming ...
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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