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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... wrote. 'The Dr lifted Bertrand up & [Amberley] kissed him gently & softly & said “Goodbye my little dears for ever”. He then lay perfectly quiet with a smile, never moved or shut his hands, but the breathing at last ceased at 9.30.' The ...
... wrote. 'The Dr lifted Bertrand up & [Amberley] kissed him gently & softly & said “Goodbye my little dears for ever”. He then lay perfectly quiet with a smile, never moved or shut his hands, but the breathing at last ceased at 9.30.' The ...
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... wrote, a statement amply justified by the ruthless terms in which, just come of age, he spoke and wrote of dear Granny to his bride-to-be. Part explanation of these particular contradictions is that up to the age of puberty mere ...
... wrote, a statement amply justified by the ruthless terms in which, just come of age, he spoke and wrote of dear Granny to his bride-to-be. Part explanation of these particular contradictions is that up to the age of puberty mere ...
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... wrote to Alys, 'but as long as we are able to marry December 14, I wish nothing better for her than a speedy death.' It had long been planned that he should return to England for a brief weekend to address the Apostles early in November ...
... wrote to Alys, 'but as long as we are able to marry December 14, I wish nothing better for her than a speedy death.' It had long been planned that he should return to England for a brief weekend to address the Apostles early in November ...
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... wrote to Moore. 'Some autumn you must come to Italy with us; it is the most perfect country ever invented. Even small and remote villages are full of absolutely first-rate architecture & the whole plan of life is dignified.' He went on ...
... wrote to Moore. 'Some autumn you must come to Italy with us; it is the most perfect country ever invented. Even small and remote villages are full of absolutely first-rate architecture & the whole plan of life is dignified.' He went on ...
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... wrote. 'Gradually I found that most of what is philosophically important in the Principles of Dynamics belongs to problems in logic and arithmetic' Occasionally he went to Oxford, hoping on one occasion to see Bradley, and writing to ...
... wrote. 'Gradually I found that most of what is philosophically important in the Principles of Dynamics belongs to problems in logic and arithmetic' Occasionally he went to Oxford, hoping on one occasion to see Bradley, and writing to ...
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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