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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Ronald Clark. intuitively that Russell was the abler man, burned the marks before meeting the other examiners. Then he recommended Russell. 'Long afterwards,' Russell has recorded, 'Whitehead said to me: “I was justified because you beat ...
Ronald Clark. intuitively that Russell was the abler man, burned the marks before meeting the other examiners. Then he recommended Russell. 'Long afterwards,' Russell has recorded, 'Whitehead said to me: “I was justified because you beat ...
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... meeting, he proposed the motion: 'That this house consider it both just and expedient that women should be admitted ... meetings on, Russell proposed that: 'The ending or mending of the House of Lords is desirable.' As so often in the ...
... meeting, he proposed the motion: 'That this house consider it both just and expedient that women should be admitted ... meetings on, Russell proposed that: 'The ending or mending of the House of Lords is desirable.' As so often in the ...
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... meeting with Berenson, & how they sat up through a whole night in the starlight out of doors by a camp-fire ...' Mary had gone on to describe how she had last Spring found herself drifting into a physical passion for another, totally ...
... meeting with Berenson, & how they sat up through a whole night in the starlight out of doors by a camp-fire ...' Mary had gone on to describe how she had last Spring found herself drifting into a physical passion for another, totally ...
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... in a University town, because they know nothing of the great world without', Russell recorded after their meeting at a London gathering. 'I replied that they live in a far greater world, the world of ideas and that only with.
... in a University town, because they know nothing of the great world without', Russell recorded after their meeting at a London gathering. 'I replied that they live in a far greater world, the world of ideas and that only with.
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... meeting for long, leisurely discussions in Cambridge or Surrey, and wrapt in the most dispassionate academic debate, become entwined in a way that brings intense pain to Russell, but of which Whitehead, oblivious to the storm, appears ...
... meeting for long, leisurely discussions in Cambridge or Surrey, and wrapt in the most dispassionate academic debate, become entwined in a way that brings intense pain to Russell, but of which Whitehead, oblivious to the storm, appears ...
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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