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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... less unsatisfying than it would have been for most politicians manqué, for in him, 'as in many Russells, the desire to study and philosophize fought with the inherited desire for power, and with the moral conviction – for it was no less ...
... less unsatisfying than it would have been for most politicians manqué, for in him, 'as in many Russells, the desire to study and philosophize fought with the inherited desire for power, and with the moral conviction – for it was no less ...
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... less than two years, a sufficiently traumatic experience for a boy of three, was made worse by what followed. Lord Amberley, anxious to protect his sons from a religious upbringing, had appointed as guardians two atheists who were to ...
... less than two years, a sufficiently traumatic experience for a boy of three, was made worse by what followed. Lord Amberley, anxious to protect his sons from a religious upbringing, had appointed as guardians two atheists who were to ...
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... 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 more in need of ...
... 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 more in need of ...
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... less vulnerable with his seven additional years, and showing early signs of the stubborn independence that was eventually to drop over the precipice into eccentricity and worse. Frank had already begun his education at Winchester. His ...
... less vulnerable with his seven additional years, and showing early signs of the stubborn independence that was eventually to drop over the precipice into eccentricity and worse. Frank had already begun his education at Winchester. His ...
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... less sensitive, more self-reliant, half-saved by Winchester, suffered from his parents' death and as a result was later wide open to the comforting charms and endless guiles of the redoubtable Lady Scott, that set-piece among predatory ...
... less sensitive, more self-reliant, half-saved by Winchester, suffered from his parents' death and as a result was later wide open to the comforting charms and endless guiles of the redoubtable Lady Scott, that set-piece among predatory ...
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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