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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... moved in. That evening Amberley took his wife into the surrounding woods she had not yet inspected. 'I was quite enchanted with the wildness & beauty of the place', Kate wrote, 'so A & I danced round with delight & from that moment I am ...
... moved in. That evening Amberley took his wife into the surrounding woods she had not yet inspected. 'I was quite enchanted with the wildness & beauty of the place', Kate wrote, 'so A & I danced round with delight & from that moment I am ...
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... moved or shut his hands, but the breathing at last ceased at 9.30.' The immediate cause of death was bronchitis, Russell wrote, 'but he seems to have grown steadily weaker from grief. There are, however, no documents after my mother's ...
... moved or shut his hands, but the breathing at last ceased at 9.30.' The immediate cause of death was bronchitis, Russell wrote, 'but he seems to have grown steadily weaker from grief. There are, however, no documents after my mother's ...
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... his nephew's intellectual ambitions: introduce him to John Tyndall, who aroused the boy's scientific interests, and to Alys Pearsall Smith, who aroused very different feelings and became his first wife. In 1883 Uncle Rollo moved.
... his nephew's intellectual ambitions: introduce him to John Tyndall, who aroused the boy's scientific interests, and to Alys Pearsall Smith, who aroused very different feelings and became his first wife. In 1883 Uncle Rollo moved.
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... moved to his 'cottage', the neighbouring and comparatively grand Aldworth from which, through the Chanctonbury Gap, he could catch his one blue glimpse of sea.T. H. Huxley and Mrs Humphry Ward had both become inhabitants of a ...
... moved to his 'cottage', the neighbouring and comparatively grand Aldworth from which, through the Chanctonbury Gap, he could catch his one blue glimpse of sea.T. H. Huxley and Mrs Humphry Ward had both become inhabitants of a ...
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... moved him, and in the spring he and Alys made for Fiesole. Here in the hills outside Florence, Mary Costelloe had set up home in a small villa next door to Bernard Berenson's I Tatti. Russell himself later claimed to have had a hand in ...
... moved him, and in the spring he and Alys made for Fiesole. Here in the hills outside Florence, Mary Costelloe had set up home in a small villa next door to Bernard Berenson's I Tatti. Russell himself later claimed to have had a hand in ...
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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