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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... wife a few months older. An heir to the title, John Francis Stanley, later known as Frank, was born on 12 August 1865 in, as he put it in his autobiography, 'strict accordance with the best English tradition of family duty'. Two years ...
... wife a few months older. An heir to the title, John Francis Stanley, later known as Frank, was born on 12 August 1865 in, as he put it in his autobiography, 'strict accordance with the best English tradition of family duty'. Two years ...
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... 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 having left ...
... 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 having left ...
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... wife a child, and his second wife's statement that at the beginning of their relationship he was 'dubious of ever begetting a child' may be significant. 'Gossip', adds this statement, 'has put upon his alleged numerous.
... wife a child, and his second wife's statement that at the beginning of their relationship he was 'dubious of ever begetting a child' may be significant. 'Gossip', adds this statement, 'has put upon his alleged numerous.
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... wife. The strong family feeling which ran in his marrow might have coursed less quickly. He might have been less aware, in day-to-day life, of the public duty of being a Russell. He would certainly have been less emotionally deprived ...
... wife. The strong family feeling which ran in his marrow might have coursed less quickly. He might have been less aware, in day-to-day life, of the public duty of being a Russell. He would certainly have been less emotionally deprived ...
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... wife and quite as happy in being at the centre of controversy, he tended to remember the lighter patches and forget the rest. In any case, Pembroke Lodge was no doubt part paradise and part hell. The first real change came when he was ...
... wife and quite as happy in being at the centre of controversy, he tended to remember the lighter patches and forget the rest. In any case, Pembroke Lodge was no doubt part paradise and part hell. The first real change came when he 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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