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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... possible without radical alteration; & I admit that I was terribly muddled.' A few years later, in The Principles of Mathematics, he admitted that 'on fundamental questions of philosophy [my] position, in all its chief features, [is] ...
... possible without radical alteration; & I admit that I was terribly muddled.' A few years later, in The Principles of Mathematics, he admitted that 'on fundamental questions of philosophy [my] position, in all its chief features, [is] ...
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... possible to accept them. 'He and McTaggart between them caused me to become a Hegelian', Russell has written. I remember the precise moment, one day in 1894, as I was walking along Trinity Lane, when I saw in a flash (or thought I saw) ...
... possible to accept them. 'He and McTaggart between them caused me to become a Hegelian', Russell has written. I remember the precise moment, one day in 1894, as I was walking along Trinity Lane, when I saw in a flash (or thought I saw) ...
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... possible after returning to England. Nevertheless, given his obedience to her plan, Lady Russell might still have expected it to work. It might have done so had her grandson not been a young man enclosed in his own love; had his ...
... possible after returning to England. Nevertheless, given his obedience to her plan, Lady Russell might still have expected it to work. It might have done so had her grandson not been a young man enclosed in his own love; had his ...
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... Possible?' At first glance there seemed to be two ways of answering this, and of thus determining the logical relations of the most elementary constituents of space. The answer offered by the Idealists was that no real problem existed ...
... Possible?' At first glance there seemed to be two ways of answering this, and of thus determining the logical relations of the most elementary constituents of space. The answer offered by the Idealists was that no real problem existed ...
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... possible to piece together their working methods. From the start, they had a double advantage. His background gave him immediate entrée to Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel, who had founded the party a quarter of a century earlier ...
... possible to piece together their working methods. From the start, they had a double advantage. His background gave him immediate entrée to Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel, who had founded the party a quarter of a century earlier ...
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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