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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... nuclear debate of the post-war decades, and may well provide even more justification for Russell's changes of stance than can be found today. Much the same may well emerge about what has been called his preventivewar phase. Russell's ...
... nuclear debate of the post-war decades, and may well provide even more justification for Russell's changes of stance than can be found today. Much the same may well emerge about what has been called his preventivewar phase. Russell's ...
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... nuclear conscience that floods across frontiers, the vestigial remnants of late nineteenth-century optimism with the dark terror of the times. This spread of life across four generations provided burden as well as benefit. In education ...
... nuclear conscience that floods across frontiers, the vestigial remnants of late nineteenth-century optimism with the dark terror of the times. This spread of life across four generations provided burden as well as benefit. In education ...
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... 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 Merton, had presented the nephew with a reading-list ...
... 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 Merton, had presented the nephew with a reading-list ...
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... nuclear disarmament, he evoked opposition for similar reasons. 'I oppose him', said his interviewer, a man unhappy at having to disagree, 'because he lays down the law as if the world were peopled by potentially rational, honourable ...
... nuclear disarmament, he evoked opposition for similar reasons. 'I oppose him', said his interviewer, a man unhappy at having to disagree, 'because he lays down the law as if the world were peopled by potentially rational, honourable ...
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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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