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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... deal of ground covered with larch plantations, the larch being mostly quite young (4 years old). A beech plantation, bad & straggly near the house – shelter it from the N. wind. There is a Kitchen garden & no fence to it. Stabling for 3 ...
... deal of ground covered with larch plantations, the larch being mostly quite young (4 years old). A beech plantation, bad & straggly near the house – shelter it from the N. wind. There is a Kitchen garden & no fence to it. Stabling for 3 ...
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... deal of it, Cambridge in general and the Society in particular did much to remedy the harm caused by the early death of his parents and the good intentions of Lord and Lady Russell. Some of the earnestness he had breathed in with the ...
... deal of it, Cambridge in general and the Society in particular did much to remedy the harm caused by the early death of his parents and the good intentions of Lord and Lady Russell. Some of the earnestness he had breathed in with the ...
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... deal of her, entertaining her at Cambridge and listening to her theoretical defence of free love. He also listened to her shocked account of how sister Mary had abandoned her husband for Bernard Berenson, an illogical failure to praise ...
... deal of her, entertaining her at Cambridge and listening to her theoretical defence of free love. He also listened to her shocked account of how sister Mary had abandoned her husband for Bernard Berenson, an illogical failure to praise ...
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... deal of good reasoning & solid thinking about it. When I'd finished it, I gave a sigh of relief, smoked a pipe & felt like God on the 7th day when he 'saw it was good'. Need for stimulation, social or sexual, and the confident ...
... deal of good reasoning & solid thinking about it. When I'd finished it, I gave a sigh of relief, smoked a pipe & felt like God on the 7th day when he 'saw it was good'. Need for stimulation, social or sexual, and the confident ...
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... deal, and I liked him better and better', he wrote to Bob Trevelyan. 'His mind is exquisitely active. True it has as yet perhaps not got beyond picking up one moss-grown stone after the other to see what is under it, but that by itself ...
... deal, and I liked him better and better', he wrote to Bob Trevelyan. 'His mind is exquisitely active. True it has as yet perhaps not got beyond picking up one moss-grown stone after the other to see what is under it, but that by itself ...
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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