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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... brought in contact.' Yet he has also said, 'From adolescence onwards I was driven by a desperate misery of loneliness for which I knew that love would be the only cure.' At times, if his reminiscences are to be believed, he was driven ...
... brought in contact.' Yet he has also said, 'From adolescence onwards I was driven by a desperate misery of loneliness for which I knew that love would be the only cure.' At times, if his reminiscences are to be believed, he was driven ...
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... brought him out'. But it was mainly in the intellectual sphere that the influence worked. The university did its broadening and civilizing job, but in Russell's case it could not entirely compensate for the lack of contact with the ...
... brought him out'. But it was mainly in the intellectual sphere that the influence worked. The university did its broadening and civilizing job, but in Russell's case it could not entirely compensate for the lack of contact with the ...
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... brought him more than legal independence; it had also brought a £20,000 legacy from Lord Amberley's estate, a sum which yielded about £600 a year, and was sufficient to transform Alys Pearsall Smith from a dreamy delight of the future ...
... brought him more than legal independence; it had also brought a £20,000 legacy from Lord Amberley's estate, a sum which yielded about £600 a year, and was sufficient to transform Alys Pearsall Smith from a dreamy delight of the future ...
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... brought out to bolster up the warning that if there were children of the marriage they too could be mad. These revelations, making the most of the instability that can be found in many families if enough effort is made, could well have ...
... brought out to bolster up the warning that if there were children of the marriage they too could be mad. These revelations, making the most of the instability that can be found in many families if enough effort is made, could well have ...
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... brought a pained response which reveals the fate he was escaping. 'I think it a great pity you shd refuse Morley's offer', wrote his grandmother. – of course I told him of yr projected marriage, and he answers that it is not an obstacle ...
... brought a pained response which reveals the fate he was escaping. 'I think it a great pity you shd refuse Morley's offer', wrote his grandmother. – of course I told him of yr projected marriage, and he answers that it is not an obstacle ...
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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