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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... natural and slightly bloody-minded reaction of being perverse for perversity's sake which could be Russell's strength when playing Devil's Advocate, but was dangerously self-damaging when allowed to get out of hand. At the end of three ...
... natural and slightly bloody-minded reaction of being perverse for perversity's sake which could be Russell's strength when playing Devil's Advocate, but was dangerously self-damaging when allowed to get out of hand. At the end of three ...
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... nature of matter – lastly matter conceived ideal-istically as a physical monad. The dialectic development was clearly carried out. The discussion was with great difficulty kept anywhere near the point. – so suggestive did the paper seem ...
... nature of matter – lastly matter conceived ideal-istically as a physical monad. The dialectic development was clearly carried out. The discussion was with great difficulty kept anywhere near the point. – so suggestive did the paper seem ...
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... nature of the numbers. But this conflicted with the doctrine – Russell called it the 'dogma' – of internal relations, according to which 'every relation is grounded in the nature of the related terms'. Just as important, Idealism by its ...
... nature of the numbers. But this conflicted with the doctrine – Russell called it the 'dogma' – of internal relations, according to which 'every relation is grounded in the nature of the related terms'. Just as important, Idealism by its ...
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... Nature and, in a word, the very Elements of things' in 'Monadology' terms – mirrored the world as it had been created by God, 'in the sense that God has so ordained the entire business that all monads independently run their several ...
... Nature and, in a word, the very Elements of things' in 'Monadology' terms – mirrored the world as it had been created by God, 'in the sense that God has so ordained the entire business that all monads independently run their several ...
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... natural world. This was to be the hard core of Russell's method for the rest of his life, and however much his views developed he continued to use the same path in arriving at them. His two main areas of disagreement with Leibniz were ...
... natural world. This was to be the hard core of Russell's method for the rest of his life, and however much his views developed he continued to use the same path in arriving at them. His two main areas of disagreement with Leibniz were ...
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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