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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... mathematics; before he died it had been found and had helped to spawn the computer industry. Thus Russell links General Grant's presidency with Nixon's reign, the Zulu wars with the ground-swell of nuclear conscience that floods across ...
... mathematics; before he died it had been found and had helped to spawn the computer industry. Thus Russell links General Grant's presidency with Nixon's reign, the Zulu wars with the ground-swell of nuclear conscience that floods across ...
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... mathematics and the Russian Revolution, the problems of pacifism and of the passions, was concealed by cerebral sparkle. In such circumstances any man might appear more cold-blooded and clinical than he really was. For Russell, whose ...
... mathematics and the Russian Revolution, the problems of pacifism and of the passions, was concealed by cerebral sparkle. In such circumstances any man might appear more cold-blooded and clinical than he really was. For Russell, whose ...
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... mathematics as much for its detachment from human beings as for anything else, Russell might well have lived his ninety-odd years without much understanding of ordinary men and women; as it was, he shared their physical passion to an ...
... mathematics as much for its detachment from human beings as for anything else, Russell might well have lived his ninety-odd years without much understanding of ordinary men and women; as it was, he shared their physical passion to an ...
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... mathematics, Russell was, in the words of his brother, an unendurable little prig. He agreed. 'I was', he wrote, 'a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them.' With some ...
... mathematics, Russell was, in the words of his brother, an unendurable little prig. He agreed. 'I was', he wrote, 'a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them.' With some ...
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... mathematics and then into philosophy. The expedition had started by 1883 when Frank Russell took his brother's mathematical training in hand. 'I gave Bertie his first lesson in Euclid this afternoon', he noted in his diary on 9 August ...
... mathematics and then into philosophy. The expedition had started by 1883 when Frank Russell took his brother's mathematical training in hand. 'I gave Bertie his first lesson in Euclid this afternoon', he noted in his diary on 9 August ...
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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