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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... had been born to rule, not as a right but a duty, and his radical instincts were based on confidence that to the aristocrat all things are possible. His mother, Kate Stanley, was descended from the French invaders who had landed in 1066 ...
... had been born to rule, not as a right but a duty, and his radical instincts were based on confidence that to the aristocrat all things are possible. His mother, Kate Stanley, was descended from the French invaders who had landed in 1066 ...
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... had been employed by the Amberleys as tutor for Frank. It is possible that Russell's grandparents would have condoned Cobden-Sanderson's lack of faith, much though they regretted it. Spalding was another matter. It was not only that he ...
... had been employed by the Amberleys as tutor for Frank. It is possible that Russell's grandparents would have condoned Cobden-Sanderson's lack of faith, much though they regretted it. Spalding was another matter. It was not only that he ...
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... had been started by John Tyndall, the eminent scientist and mountaineer whose lectures at the Royal Institution had been regularly attended by members of the Russell family. His uniquely ugly house was still one of the few in the area ...
... had been started by John Tyndall, the eminent scientist and mountaineer whose lectures at the Royal Institution had been regularly attended by members of the Russell family. His uniquely ugly house was still one of the few in the area ...
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... had been coddled in almost monastic seclusion. His sexual education, acquired in the manner of the day by schoolboy gossip and a delving into medical dictionaries, had been purely theoretical; and he was ill-prepared for putting into ...
... had been coddled in almost monastic seclusion. His sexual education, acquired in the manner of the day by schoolboy gossip and a delving into medical dictionaries, had been purely theoretical; and he was ill-prepared for putting into ...
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... had been started by a group of young men who had 'a common craving for further investigation than was permitted by the opportunities given by the University into higher philosophy'. They met in each other's rooms in succession, on ...
... had been started by a group of young men who had 'a common craving for further investigation than was permitted by the opportunities given by the University into higher philosophy'. They met in each other's rooms in succession, on ...
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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