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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... present more or less with me in particular when up a tree. I should say it is quite possible I may develop more or less peculiarly if I am kept at home much longer. The melancholy in me is I think chiefly caused by the reserve which ...
... present more or less with me in particular when up a tree. I should say it is quite possible I may develop more or less peculiarly if I am kept at home much longer. The melancholy in me is I think chiefly caused by the reserve which ...
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... before this final touch, the build-up had been too much for Alys, who countered with a long, distressed letter. She had been miserable, crying, and trying to present a good front to the world in the face of such devoted reports about Mary.
... before this final touch, the build-up had been too much for Alys, who countered with a long, distressed letter. She had been miserable, crying, and trying to present a good front to the world in the face of such devoted reports about Mary.
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... present. The bridegroom had, moreover, received a letter from Lady Russell two days before the ceremony which in effect reproached him for having won the battle. 'How thankfully I remember that all through your childhood & boyhood you ...
... present. The bridegroom had, moreover, received a letter from Lady Russell two days before the ceremony which in effect reproached him for having won the battle. 'How thankfully I remember that all through your childhood & boyhood you ...
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... present was Giuseppe Peano, the Italian mathematician who had played a key part in the development of symbolic logic. It had for long been realized that a language of symbolic logic was more convenient for mathematics than the language ...
... present was Giuseppe Peano, the Italian mathematician who had played a key part in the development of symbolic logic. It had for long been realized that a language of symbolic logic was more convenient for mathematics than the language ...
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... present at the Congress as Russell's colleague; he was roughly half as old again, and two years previously had published his Treatise on Universal Algebra. Yet it was Russell, not the older man, who now acted – the first of those ...
... present at the Congress as Russell's colleague; he was roughly half as old again, and two years previously had published his Treatise on Universal Algebra. Yet it was Russell, not the older man, who now acted – the first of those ...
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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