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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... never 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 ...
... never 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 ...
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... never set. Granny could reminisce about friends of Horace Walpole she had known. Russell's Stanley grandmother would describe taking tea in Florence with the widow of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender. Lord John had visited ...
... never set. Granny could reminisce about friends of Horace Walpole she had known. Russell's Stanley grandmother would describe taking tea in Florence with the widow of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender. Lord John had visited ...
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Ronald Clark. four volumes that I never opened: 'The Works of Andrew Marvell Esq. M.P.'. It was not till I grew up that I discovered Marvell was a poet rather than a politician. I was not supposed to read any of these books; otherwise I ...
Ronald Clark. four volumes that I never opened: 'The Works of Andrew Marvell Esq. M.P.'. It was not till I grew up that I discovered Marvell was a poet rather than a politician. I was not supposed to read any of these books; otherwise I ...
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... never succeed in mastering optics. Science was therefore closed to me as a career.' Delight in mathematics continued to grow. It was, Russell has said, partly mere pleasure in discovering that I possessed a certain kind of skill, partly ...
... never succeed in mastering optics. Science was therefore closed to me as a career.' Delight in mathematics continued to grow. It was, Russell has said, partly mere pleasure in discovering that I possessed a certain kind of skill, partly ...
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... 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 her own spoonerism ...
... 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 her own spoonerism ...
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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