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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... page after page filled with copper-plate writing already showing two of the Russell characteristics: the logical development of one idea into the next, and the pre-writing cerebration which enabled sentence after sentence to.
... page after page filled with copper-plate writing already showing two of the Russell characteristics: the logical development of one idea into the next, and the pre-writing cerebration which enabled sentence after sentence to.
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... idea remained only round the corner, and few great men can have left in their records so many reflections that suicide might be the best way out. Russell's verdicts on his grandmother are conflicting. Some things niggled for years ...
... idea remained only round the corner, and few great men can have left in their records so many reflections that suicide might be the best way out. Russell's verdicts on his grandmother are conflicting. Some things niggled for years ...
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... idea which I got during the month at F[riday's] H[ill] one day when thee was in town. It is so bold that it almost terrifies me.' When it was finished, he felt that it seems to me much too hard to be understood when read aloud, & the ...
... idea which I got during the month at F[riday's] H[ill] one day when thee was in town. It is so bold that it almost terrifies me.' When it was finished, he felt that it seems to me much too hard to be understood when read aloud, & the ...
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... idea of his chances. They appeared to be slim, as he reported that night to Alys. 'My darling Rosebud (this is to replace the Little Lark for the future), [Whitehead and Ward] (who are both ultraempiricists) disagreed with almost every ...
... idea of his chances. They appeared to be slim, as he reported that night to Alys. 'My darling Rosebud (this is to replace the Little Lark for the future), [Whitehead and Ward] (who are both ultraempiricists) disagreed with almost every ...
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... idea and, by careful choice of symbols and operations, to create a system which resembled algebra and yet expressed ... ideas as 'the only', 'is contained in' and 'there exists' -had the unambiguous meaning often lacking in conventional ...
... idea and, by careful choice of symbols and operations, to create a system which resembled algebra and yet expressed ... ideas as 'the only', 'is contained in' and 'there exists' -had the unambiguous meaning often lacking in conventional ...
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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