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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... physical accident or inhibited early upbringing, could certainly be conquered and even its existence was not necessarily a misfortune. With an intellect which could easily have created an unbridgeable gulf separating him from the rest ...
... physical accident or inhibited early upbringing, could certainly be conquered and even its existence was not necessarily a misfortune. With an intellect which could easily have created an unbridgeable gulf separating him from the rest ...
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... physically, intellectually and emotionally with marks that lasted all his life. A puritan despising comfort, indifferent to food and hating wine, she decreed that the day begin with a cold bath all the year round, followed by half-an ...
... physically, intellectually and emotionally with marks that lasted all his life. A puritan despising comfort, indifferent to food and hating wine, she decreed that the day begin with a cold bath all the year round, followed by half-an ...
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... physical demands of a huge literary output and regard imprisonment in his ninetieth year as no more than his own attempt to educate his masters. If the physical regime of Pembroke Lodge was a well-disguised blessing for a tough, wiry ...
... physical demands of a huge literary output and regard imprisonment in his ninetieth year as no more than his own attempt to educate his masters. If the physical regime of Pembroke Lodge was a well-disguised blessing for a tough, wiry ...
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... physical stimulation of Alys. Until their first meeting in the summer of 1889, Russell had been coddled in almost monastic seclusion. His sexual education, acquired in the manner of the day by schoolboy gossip and a delving into medical ...
... physical stimulation of Alys. Until their first meeting in the summer of 1889, Russell had been coddled in almost monastic seclusion. His sexual education, acquired in the manner of the day by schoolboy gossip and a delving into medical ...
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... physical substitutes for the detested team-games. Thus far, Russell conformed to the accepted pattern. So did his prospects. He was intellectually precocious, the heir to an earldom – although Frank, despite his rackety ways, seemed ...
... physical substitutes for the detested team-games. Thus far, Russell conformed to the accepted pattern. So did his prospects. He was intellectually precocious, the heir to an earldom – although Frank, despite his rackety ways, seemed ...
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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