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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... logic of the words, and made him, though he might be many-sided, a many-sided fanatic. None of this was apparent as the family decided on Russell's future. All that came through was a strong line in mathematics. Therefore Cambridge, to ...
... logic of the words, and made him, though he might be many-sided, a many-sided fanatic. None of this was apparent as the family decided on Russell's future. All that came through was a strong line in mathematics. Therefore Cambridge, to ...
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... logic and math.'cs. inspire me more than religious writing, because they disdain even to notice suffering.' Moore, and others, were allergic to the outlook. Early in 1893 Russell, by then the established young undergraduate about ...
... logic and math.'cs. inspire me more than religious writing, because they disdain even to notice suffering.' Moore, and others, were allergic to the outlook. Early in 1893 Russell, by then the established young undergraduate about ...
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... Logic was on Joachim's reading-list and Russell, who turned to it in September 1893, wrote 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 ...
... Logic was on Joachim's reading-list and Russell, who turned to it in September 1893, wrote 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 ...
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... logic of geometry once again. Almost his only comment on the brief visit referred to Dr Thomas's daughter Helen: deaf, gentle, kind and with astonishingly beautiful red hair. 'I was very fond of her for a number of years, culminating in ...
... logic of geometry once again. Almost his only comment on the brief visit referred to Dr Thomas's daughter Helen: deaf, gentle, kind and with astonishingly beautiful red hair. 'I was very fond of her for a number of years, culminating in ...
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... logic and arithmetic' Occasionally he went to Oxford, hoping on one occasion to see Bradley, and writing to Alys that 'it seems the greatest sign of friendship that he can give anyone is to take them to see his dog's grave. There are ...
... logic and arithmetic' Occasionally he went to Oxford, hoping on one occasion to see Bradley, and writing to Alys that 'it seems the greatest sign of friendship that he can give anyone is to take them to see his dog's grave. There are ...
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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