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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... might have coursed less quickly. He might have been less aware, in day-to-day life, of the public duty of being a Russell. He would certainly have been less emotionally deprived, with all the consequences this would have had for a man ...
... might have coursed less quickly. He might have been less aware, in day-to-day life, of the public duty of being a Russell. He would certainly have been less emotionally deprived, with all the consequences this would have had for a man ...
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... he appreciated the situation. Her grandson's appointment would of course be honorary and unpaid. 'But he will find himself among friends and I will write both to Hardinge and to my son Terence to do everything they can to make his stay ...
... he appreciated the situation. Her grandson's appointment would of course be honorary and unpaid. 'But he will find himself among friends and I will write both to Hardinge and to my son Terence to do everything they can to make his stay ...
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... could breakfast with Mary each morning; here she would lighten the boredom of his remaining days in Paris, bringing the scent of Alys with her across the Channel. Before the Cambridge visit, he had been delighted to receive one ...
... could breakfast with Mary each morning; here she would lighten the boredom of his remaining days in Paris, bringing the scent of Alys with her across the Channel. Before the Cambridge visit, he had been delighted to receive one ...
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... he wrote to Moore a few years later when asked to read a paper to the Apostles, 'I can't read on practical things, as I think little about them & cannot prove the few opinions I have in any valid sense.' Just how, where and why he would ...
... he wrote to Moore a few years later when asked to read a paper to the Apostles, 'I can't read on practical things, as I think little about them & cannot prove the few opinions I have in any valid sense.' Just how, where and why he would ...
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Ronald Clark. book. As far as the contradiction was concerned, he had worked out what he himself well knew was only a crude solution. He trusted that in due course he would be able to do better, and in the autumn of 1902 he handed over ...
Ronald Clark. book. As far as the contradiction was concerned, he had worked out what he himself well knew was only a crude solution. He trusted that in due course he would be able to do better, and in the autumn of 1902 he handed over ...
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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