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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... given by Berenson. The two men met for tea at Russell's hotel and the American later recorded 'a feeling of intense mental life almost unrivalled in my experience. Ideas simply leaped from him, he bubbled with thick-coming fancies. He ...
... given by Berenson. The two men met for tea at Russell's hotel and the American later recorded 'a feeling of intense mental life almost unrivalled in my experience. Ideas simply leaped from him, he bubbled with thick-coming fancies. He ...
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... given space, not the mere intellectual construction we have just been discussing – gives results which can only be known empirically and approximately, and can be deduced by no necessity of thought'. Whatever validity this answer had ...
... given space, not the mere intellectual construction we have just been discussing – gives results which can only be known empirically and approximately, and can be deduced by no necessity of thought'. Whatever validity this answer had ...
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... given an important new turn by his rejection of Idealism. For a basic element of Idealism was that every statement was part of a comprehensive system whose parts were logically related to each other. Any statement that fitted in, or ...
... given an important new turn by his rejection of Idealism. For a basic element of Idealism was that every statement was part of a comprehensive system whose parts were logically related to each other. Any statement that fitted in, or ...
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... given by a letter written soon after he had parted company with Alys. 'My marriage checked growth in one way, even when it was happy; then I had a short time of freedom tho' in pain – then long years of prison – with greater powers of ...
... given by a letter written soon after he had parted company with Alys. 'My marriage checked growth in one way, even when it was happy; then I had a short time of freedom tho' in pain – then long years of prison – with greater powers of ...
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... given over to philosophical vagueness'. The excitement which this realization aroused is not easily understood by those to whom mathematics is merely a working tool, and philosophy a casual cerebration. But each man needs his own ...
... given over to philosophical vagueness'. The excitement which this realization aroused is not easily understood by those to whom mathematics is merely a working tool, and philosophy a casual cerebration. But each man needs his own ...
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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