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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... 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 later ...
... 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 later ...
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... months of 1870 inspecting possible new homes in South Wales. On the morning of 14 April they arrived at Ravenscroft, a low-built eighteenth-century house standing on a shelf of land at Trelleck above the lower Wye Valley, with a ...
... months of 1870 inspecting possible new homes in South Wales. On the morning of 14 April they arrived at Ravenscroft, a low-built eighteenth-century house standing on a shelf of land at Trelleck above the lower Wye Valley, with a ...
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... months afterwards, the young couple moved in. That evening Amberley 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 ...
... months afterwards, the young couple moved in. That evening Amberley 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 ...
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... months earlier his brother Rollo had been forced to leave the Foreign Office due to failing sight. Before the year was out his brother Willy had gone mad. None of this registered on Bertrand's infant memory. Neither did the death-bed ...
... months earlier his brother Rollo had been forced to leave the Foreign Office due to failing sight. Before the year was out his brother Willy had gone mad. None of this registered on Bertrand's infant memory. Neither did the death-bed ...
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... months after coming up, and Moore in his turn joined 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 ...
... months after coming up, and Moore in his turn joined 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 ...
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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