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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... later known as Frank, was born on 12 August 1865 in, as he put it in his autobiography, 'strict accordance with the best English tradition of family duty'. Two years later Amberley stood for Nottingham.
... later known as Frank, was born on 12 August 1865 in, as he put it in his autobiography, 'strict accordance with the best English tradition of family duty'. Two years later Amberley stood for Nottingham.
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... later the founder of the Doves Press, a bookbinder and printer 'of admirable taste, fecund and versatile in decorative ideas, impeccable in technique, and scrupulous in finish'. Thus launched, Russell found a grand world prepared to ...
... later the founder of the Doves Press, a bookbinder and printer 'of admirable taste, fecund and versatile in decorative ideas, impeccable in technique, and scrupulous in finish'. Thus launched, Russell found a grand world prepared to ...
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... later, was already a figure from the history books, refighting old battles in his study or being wheeled on bath-chair tours round the grounds. As Russell later remembered it, life at Pembroke Lodge had a ghostly air. 'The garden was ...
... later, was already a figure from the history books, refighting old battles in his study or being wheeled on bath-chair tours round the grounds. As Russell later remembered it, life at Pembroke Lodge had a ghostly air. 'The garden was ...
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... later wide open to the comforting charms and endless guiles of the redoubtable Lady Scott, that set-piece among predatory mothersin-law, as well as to the attractions of a surfeit of wives and potential wives. His younger brother ...
... later wide open to the comforting charms and endless guiles of the redoubtable Lady Scott, that set-piece among predatory mothersin-law, as well as to the attractions of a surfeit of wives and potential wives. His younger brother ...
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... later that it had influenced him profoundly. The extensive notes which he made at the time show this to be no over-statement. The following spring he tackled Ethical Studies; then, in August, Appearance and Reality. The effect of ...
... later that it had influenced him profoundly. The extensive notes which he made at the time show this to be no over-statement. The following spring he tackled Ethical Studies; then, in August, Appearance and Reality. The effect of ...
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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