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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... published in full, reveal the deep emotional complexities of a man for whom no venture was too dangerous, no exploration too unlikely. It will eventually, also, be possible to describe in greater detail some aspects of Russell's later ...
... published in full, reveal the deep emotional complexities of a man for whom no venture was too dangerous, no exploration too unlikely. It will eventually, also, be possible to describe in greater detail some aspects of Russell's later ...
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... published book, German Social Democracy, the outcome of his Berlin researches and the lectures into which he fashioned them the following year, was political rather than philosophical. In it he vigorously praised the Communist Manifesto ...
... published book, German Social Democracy, the outcome of his Berlin researches and the lectures into which he fashioned them the following year, was political rather than philosophical. In it he vigorously praised the Communist Manifesto ...
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... published as An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry. The president was only the first of the family to rise to the occasion. Her father, Dr James Carey Thomas, was closely connected with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and was in ...
... published as An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry. The president was only the first of the family to rise to the occasion. Her father, Dr James Carey Thomas, was closely connected with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and was in ...
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... published version of the Leibniz lectures which appeared in 1900. The work which had gone into them was important for other reasons, since it confirmed Russell in Leibniz's belief that the task of philosophy was to break down complex ...
... published version of the Leibniz lectures which appeared in 1900. The work which had gone into them was important for other reasons, since it confirmed Russell in Leibniz's belief that the task of philosophy was to break down complex ...
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... published in the Proceedings. The men would talk shop with their colleagues and the ladies would amuse themselves, visit the art galleries or otherwise enjoy the change of scene. A good time would be had by all. Russell fitted neatly ...
... published in the Proceedings. The men would talk shop with their colleagues and the ladies would amuse themselves, visit the art galleries or otherwise enjoy the change of scene. A good time would be had by all. Russell fitted neatly ...
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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