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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... took it for granted that a man would make his mark on history. On both sides his predecessors had been born to rule, not as a right but a duty, and his radical instincts were based on confidence that to the aristocrat all things are ...
... took it for granted that a man would make his mark on history. On both sides his predecessors had been born to rule, not as a right but a duty, and his radical instincts were based on confidence that to the aristocrat all things are ...
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... took his wife into the surrounding woods she had not yet inspected. 'I was quite enchanted with the wildness & beauty of the place', Kate wrote, 'so A & I danced round with delight & from that moment I am sure we felt no regret at ...
... took his wife into the surrounding woods she had not yet inspected. 'I was quite enchanted with the wildness & beauty of the place', Kate wrote, 'so A & I danced round with delight & from that moment I am sure we felt no regret at ...
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... took tea in the drawing-room. Bertie, reported Lord Amberley's sister, Aunt Agatha, 'made a nice little bow – but he was much subdued & did not treat Her Majesty with the utter disrespect I expected'. Russell, taking a friend's young ...
... took tea in the drawing-room. Bertie, reported Lord Amberley's sister, Aunt Agatha, 'made a nice little bow – but he was much subdued & did not treat Her Majesty with the utter disrespect I expected'. Russell, taking a friend's young ...
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... took him first into mathematics and then into philosophy. The expedition had started by 1883 when Frank Russell took his brother's mathematical training in hand. 'I gave Bertie his first lesson in Euclid this afternoon', he noted in his ...
... took him first into mathematics and then into philosophy. The expedition had started by 1883 when Frank Russell took his brother's mathematical training in hand. 'I gave Bertie his first lesson in Euclid this afternoon', he noted in his ...
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... by him, and during one visit Robert Pearsall Smith took Berenson aside. 'Do you see that young man over there?' he asked. 'He's Lord John Russell's grandson.' 2 Cambridge Chrysalis At the age of seventeen Russell was.
... by him, and during one visit Robert Pearsall Smith took Berenson aside. 'Do you see that young man over there?' he asked. 'He's Lord John Russell's grandson.' 2 Cambridge Chrysalis At the age of seventeen Russell was.
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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