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 in Italy – 'about as enjoyable as any travelling I have ever done', he 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 ...
... deal in Italy – 'about as enjoyable as any travelling I have ever done', he 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 ...
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... deal of time, and almost as close to his cousin Lady Mary Howard, married to Gilbert Murray and settled at Churt, just across the Surrey border. He read extensively. He passed his Fellowship Thesis through the press as a book. He ...
... deal of time, and almost as close to his cousin Lady Mary Howard, married to Gilbert Murray and settled at Churt, just across the Surrey border. He read extensively. He passed his Fellowship Thesis through the press as a book. He ...
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... deal with them as a scientist working in the laboratory rather than as a theologian forming his ideas of the universe. There was to be another analogy with the scientific method. Just as science presents each new theory or discovery as ...
... deal with them as a scientist working in the laboratory rather than as a theologian forming his ideas of the universe. There was to be another analogy with the scientific method. Just as science presents each new theory or discovery as ...
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... deal closer to traditional symbolism than his, and a language in which the signs – for such logical ideas as 'the only', 'is contained in' and 'there exists' -had the unambiguous meaning often lacking in conventional languages; a ...
... deal closer to traditional symbolism than his, and a language in which the signs – for such logical ideas as 'the only', 'is contained in' and 'there exists' -had the unambiguous meaning often lacking in conventional languages; a ...
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... deal. He is sure to make a fool of himself.' He said much the same when reviewing the address in Mind; the president, he politely suggested, didn't know what he was talking about. At Millhanger the social pleasantries were strictly ...
... deal. He is sure to make a fool of himself.' He said much the same when reviewing the address in Mind; the president, he politely suggested, didn't know what he was talking about. At Millhanger the social pleasantries were strictly ...
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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