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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... things if they can't be proved?' His brother warned that unless he could accept them it would be impossible to continue. Russell capitulated -provisionally. The complex attraction which mathematics as a whole was soon exerting combined ...
... things if they can't be proved?' His brother warned that unless he could accept them it would be impossible to continue. Russell capitulated -provisionally. The complex attraction which mathematics as a whole was soon exerting combined ...
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... things niggled for years, particularly her habit of squashing any hint of philosophical conversation with the saying 'What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.' After some forty or fifty repetitions, the remark ceased to ...
... things niggled for years, particularly her habit of squashing any hint of philosophical conversation with the saying 'What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.' After some forty or fifty repetitions, the remark ceased to ...
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... things were going' and reveals that he plans a domicile in Chicago to get a divorce by Illinois laws. But maybe a peer can be domiciled only in England? And if Frank takes U.S. nationality, what happens to the peerage? Russell, next in ...
... things were going' and reveals that he plans a domicile in Chicago to get a divorce by Illinois laws. But maybe a peer can be domiciled only in England? And if Frank takes U.S. nationality, what happens to the peerage? Russell, next in ...
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... things wh. I was glad to know. Mary was also, twenty-two-year-old Russell poured out to his betrothed, so wise and emotional that she fitted his mood to perfection. 'She seems to be enjoying herself very much here & I think grows fonder ...
... things wh. I was glad to know. Mary was also, twenty-two-year-old Russell poured out to his betrothed, so wise and emotional that she fitted his mood to perfection. 'She seems to be enjoying herself very much here & I think grows fonder ...
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... things, ceased to exist in me. I did a great deal of work, & succeeded in it beyond my hope; but it was entirely technical and dry. Somehow or other the awakening was bound to come. As I look back on the happiness of those years, I feel ...
... things, ceased to exist in me. I did a great deal of work, & succeeded in it beyond my hope; but it was entirely technical and dry. Somehow or other the awakening was bound to come. As I look back on the happiness of those years, I feel ...
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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