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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... replied that Mill did not think that it would conflict with his beliefs to become a godfather. In due course he accepted and a second godfather was discovered in Thomas Cobden-Sanderson. Family friend and an old admirer of Kate Stanley ...
... replied that Mill did not think that it would conflict with his beliefs to become a godfather. In due course he accepted and a second godfather was discovered in Thomas Cobden-Sanderson. Family friend and an old admirer of Kate Stanley ...
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... replied. 'I had thought about it as a thing which was impossible, but would be delightful if it could happen, & I shall not think it as an indecent exhibition of emotion to a sister – how should I? The thought of it is strangely ...
... replied. 'I had thought about it as a thing which was impossible, but would be delightful if it could happen, & I shall not think it as an indecent exhibition of emotion to a sister – how should I? The thought of it is strangely ...
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... replied, a method of dealing with highly charged situations that Alys's distraught reaction in 1894 had shown him to be both kinder and more convenient. It also brought results. Back in England, he was able to make his peace in about ...
... replied, a method of dealing with highly charged situations that Alys's distraught reaction in 1894 had shown him to be both kinder and more convenient. It also brought results. Back in England, he was able to make his peace in about ...
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... to live in a University town, because they know nothing of the great world without', Russell recorded after their meeting at a London gathering. 'I replied that they live in a far greater world, the world of ideas and that only with.
... to live in a University town, because they know nothing of the great world without', Russell recorded after their meeting at a London gathering. 'I replied that they live in a far greater world, the world of ideas and that only with.
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... themselves. From this I conclude that under certain circumstances a definable collection does not form a totality. Frege replied by return. 'Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say,
... themselves. From this I conclude that under certain circumstances a definable collection does not form a totality. Frege replied by return. 'Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say,
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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