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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... problems of pacifism and of the passions, was concealed by cerebral sparkle. In such circumstances any man might appear more cold-blooded and clinical than he really was. For Russell, whose battened-down youth was followed by buttoned ...
... problems of pacifism and of the passions, was concealed by cerebral sparkle. In such circumstances any man might appear more cold-blooded and clinical than he really was. For Russell, whose battened-down youth was followed by buttoned ...
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... problems of a boy twice-orphaned before he was five. Even Frank, less sensitive, more self-reliant, half-saved by Winchester, suffered from his parents' death and as a result was later wide open to the comforting charms and endless ...
... problems of a boy twice-orphaned before he was five. Even Frank, less sensitive, more self-reliant, half-saved by Winchester, suffered from his parents' death and as a result was later wide open to the comforting charms and endless ...
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... problems of belief and the theory of knowledge, to the reasoning which led men to separate fact from fiction, dream from waking and reality from illusion. Common sense, after all, did not always prove a sure guide – a lesson pointedly ...
... problems of belief and the theory of knowledge, to the reasoning which led men to separate fact from fiction, dream from waking and reality from illusion. Common sense, after all, did not always prove a sure guide – a lesson pointedly ...
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... problems of Ethics in sensuous joys,' he wrote to Moore. The place is like Heaven, too good for morality. One has only to float lazily through the warm days & nights, & allow every sense to be perpetually clasped in the best things the ...
... problems of Ethics in sensuous joys,' he wrote to Moore. The place is like Heaven, too good for morality. One has only to float lazily through the warm days & nights, & allow every sense to be perpetually clasped in the best things the ...
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... problems and the status of women. For six weeks the Russells interviewed party members, attended local elections, and saw and spoke with anyone who seemed likely to provide useful information. 'Called on Frl. Ottilie Baeden, a ...
... problems and the status of women. For six weeks the Russells interviewed party members, attended local elections, and saw and spoke with anyone who seemed likely to provide useful information. 'Called on Frl. Ottilie Baeden, a ...
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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