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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... soon exerting combined with Russell's natural ability to prevent him moving on, as he had hoped, from mathematics to science. 'It turned out that while not without aptitude for pure mathematics, I was completely destitute of the ...
... soon exerting combined with Russell's natural ability to prevent him moving on, as he had hoped, from mathematics to science. 'It turned out that while not without aptitude for pure mathematics, I was completely destitute of the ...
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... soon to become Mrs Webb, and quickly put Russell among her 'A's' – 'aristocratic, anarchic and artistic' – compared with the 'B's', among whom she included herself and her future husband, 'bourgeois, bureaucratic and benevolent'. The ...
... soon to become Mrs Webb, and quickly put Russell among her 'A's' – 'aristocratic, anarchic and artistic' – compared with the 'B's', among whom she included herself and her future husband, 'bourgeois, bureaucratic and benevolent'. The ...
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... soon after arriving. Russell was a frequent attender and over the next two decades often used the club as a sounding-board for his ideas, reading before it many papers later refurbished for larger audiences. His development at Cambridge ...
... soon after arriving. Russell was a frequent attender and over the next two decades often used the club as a sounding-board for his ideas, reading before it many papers later refurbished for larger audiences. His development at Cambridge ...
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... soon to dissolve first into Rutherford's 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 ...
... soon to dissolve first into Rutherford's 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 ...
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... soon after they arrived. 'We found her having tea with her old father & 2 little nephews in a small stuffy room with two beds & a sewing-machine.' Three days later they visit another party member 'in a fairly respectable house, but a ...
... soon after they arrived. 'We found her having tea with her old father & 2 little nephews in a small stuffy room with two beds & a sewing-machine.' Three days later they visit another party member 'in a fairly respectable house, but 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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