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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... in February 1876 Russell was delivered to his grandparents' home in Richmond Park. Family silence about the reason for the move was the first instalment of a cover-up that ... to wide horizons with an unimpeded sight of the sunset and was.
... in February 1876 Russell was delivered to his grandparents' home in Richmond Park. Family silence about the reason for the move was the first instalment of a cover-up that ... to wide horizons with an unimpeded sight of the sunset and was.
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... in the 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 ... A capacity for friendship, sociability and the frosty glitter with.
... in the 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 ... A capacity for friendship, sociability and the frosty glitter with.
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Ronald Clark. I don't believe it will occur to me to feel shy; like thee I shall be too glad to get the d—d thing over and done with.' In London Lady Russell, faced with fast-diminishing hope that, with two thirds of the course run, Paris ...
Ronald Clark. I don't believe it will occur to me to feel shy; like thee I shall be too glad to get the d—d thing over and done with.' In London Lady Russell, faced with fast-diminishing hope that, with two thirds of the course run, Paris ...
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Ronald Clark. world in the face of such devoted reports about Mary. Reading her letter, realizing that another from him in the same strain was already in the post, Russell sent an impetuous exclamation of concern. Mary had by this time ...
Ronald Clark. world in the face of such devoted reports about Mary. Reading her letter, realizing that another from him in the same strain was already in the post, Russell sent an impetuous exclamation of concern. Mary had by this time ...
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Ronald Clark. books on social and political questions, growing gradually more abstract. At last I would achieve a Hegelian synthesis in an encyclopaedic work dealing equally with theory and practice ... to have had a hand in the romance, as.
Ronald Clark. books on social and political questions, growing gradually more abstract. At last I would achieve a Hegelian synthesis in an encyclopaedic work dealing equally with theory and practice ... to have had a hand in the romance, as.
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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