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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... things than anybody else he knew. But what can a charwoman know of the spirits of great men or the records of fallen empires or the haunting visions of art & reason? All this and much more I wished to say; but the words stuck in my ...
... things than anybody else he knew. But what can a charwoman know of the spirits of great men or the records of fallen empires or the haunting visions of art & reason? All this and much more I wished to say; but the words stuck in my ...
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... things that are not teaspoons, is one of the things that are not teaspoons. There seemed to be instances which are not negative; for example, the class of all classes is a class. The application of Cantor's argument led me to consider ...
... things that are not teaspoons, is one of the things that are not teaspoons. There seemed to be instances which are not negative; for example, the class of all classes is a class. The application of Cantor's argument led me to consider ...
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... things, and if the tunnellings seemed at times to run in haphazard directions they were none the less important for that. Whether or not he had justified his thesis was not yet clear. As Nature said, the book did not pretend 'to say the ...
... things, and if the tunnellings seemed at times to run in haphazard directions they were none the less important for that. Whether or not he had justified his thesis was not yet clear. As Nature said, the book did not pretend 'to say the ...
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... thing is certain: before the collaboration had long started Russell's emotional life had been transformed – and in circumstances that he concealed for ... things that wd upset his balance. It is not a feeling in which Repentance at Leisure.
... thing is certain: before the collaboration had long started Russell's emotional life had been transformed – and in circumstances that he concealed for ... things that wd upset his balance. It is not a feeling in which Repentance at Leisure.
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... things escaped Mrs Webb, who after finding Russell less forthcoming than usual recorded in her diary Poor Alys has been too unwell to be here. A consciousness that something is wrong between them has to some extent spoilt our sojourn ...
... things escaped Mrs Webb, who after finding Russell less forthcoming than usual recorded in her diary Poor Alys has been too unwell to be here. A consciousness that something is wrong between them has to some extent spoilt our sojourn ...
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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