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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... truth, Russell, writing 'complete', meant nothing less; and completion was sometimes a problem. However, all the considerable evidence suggests that his experience was less than that, although of only slightly less significance to his ...
... truth, Russell, writing 'complete', meant nothing less; and completion was sometimes a problem. However, all the considerable evidence suggests that his experience was less than that, although of only slightly less significance to his ...
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... truth which he sought in his academic work. But from this early example of blithe thoughtlessness he learned that in human relations there were often two ways of presenting the truth, and that one could cause less pain than the other ...
... truth which he sought in his academic work. But from this early example of blithe thoughtlessness he learned that in human relations there were often two ways of presenting the truth, and that one could cause less pain than the other ...
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... truth in the world, but the Idealism he had taken up so enthusiastically had as yet proved of little use; indeed, he ... truths of mathematics. Therefore it was in mathematics that he would work during the next few years; in mathematics ...
... truth in the world, but the Idealism he had taken up so enthusiastically had as yet proved of little use; indeed, he ... truths of mathematics. Therefore it was in mathematics that he would work during the next few years; in mathematics ...
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... truths of geometric axioms were so widespread that they gave the appearance of absolute certainty even though this did not exist. Neither answer satisfied Russell. The first offended his sense of reality, the touchstone of so many ...
... truths of geometric axioms were so widespread that they gave the appearance of absolute certainty even though this did not exist. Neither answer satisfied Russell. The first offended his sense of reality, the touchstone of so many ...
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... truths, and even with a private life whose failings he was to discern only in retrospect. Two events – more accurately, one visit to Paris and one change of philosophical stance – were within a few years to shift the course from that to ...
... truths, and even with a private life whose failings he was to discern only in retrospect. Two events – more accurately, one visit to Paris and one change of philosophical stance – were within a few years to shift the course from that to ...
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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