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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... matter. It was not only that he came from that limbo between 'us' and 'them' which was inhabited by governesses, tutors and lesser fry. When first employed by the Amberleys, Spalding had been in an advanced stage of consumption, and to ...
... matter. It was not only that he came from that limbo between 'us' and 'them' which was inhabited by governesses, tutors and lesser fry. When first employed by the Amberleys, Spalding had been in an advanced stage of consumption, and to ...
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... matter. What is matter? Never mind.' After some forty or fifty repetitions, the remark ceased to amuse him. What did amuse him, and what he would gleefully recall after more than eighty years, was the occasion on which she had emitted ...
... matter. What is matter? Never mind.' After some forty or fifty repetitions, the remark ceased to amuse him. What did amuse him, and what he would gleefully recall after more than eighty years, was the occasion on which she had emitted ...
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... matter how varied these insights might be, lost the substance in the visible image, the sense in the 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 ...
... matter how varied these insights might be, lost the substance in the visible image, the sense in the 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 ...
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... matter, were soon to dissolve first into Rutherford's nuclear atom and later into mere concentrations of electric force. Russell's sceptical questioning had begun when Uncle Rollo's brother-in-law Harold Joachim, a philosophy don at ...
... matter, were soon to dissolve first into Rutherford's nuclear atom and later into mere concentrations of electric force. Russell's sceptical questioning had begun when Uncle Rollo's brother-in-law Harold Joachim, a philosophy don at ...
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... matter is an illusion, and that the world really consists of nothing but mind.' He had frequently listened to Hegelian arguments retailed by McTaggart during his first three years at Cambridge, but it was not until his fourth, when he ...
... matter is an illusion, and that the world really consists of nothing but mind.' He had frequently listened to Hegelian arguments retailed by McTaggart during his first three years at Cambridge, but it was not until his fourth, when he ...
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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