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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... Writing to Alys on the way to France he had asked if he must keep his teetotal pledge. 'I had much rather not, as it is awkward for a man to be a teetotaller abroad,' he went on, '& I had always meant to drink in Germany, wh. was my ...
... Writing to Alys on the way to France he had asked if he must keep his teetotal pledge. 'I had much rather not, as it is awkward for a man to be a teetotaller abroad,' he went on, '& I had always meant to drink in Germany, wh. was my ...
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... writing to Alys on the cross-Channel boat, 'it made me painfully feel she wasn't thee'. Russell and Mary Costelloe stayed at the Hotel Vouillemont in the Rue Boissy d'Anglas from 4 November until, ten days later, she left on the Orient ...
... writing to Alys on the cross-Channel boat, 'it made me painfully feel she wasn't thee'. Russell and Mary Costelloe stayed at the Hotel Vouillemont in the Rue Boissy d'Anglas from 4 November until, ten days later, she left on the Orient ...
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... writing to Alys that 'it seems the greatest sign of friendship that he can give anyone is to take them to see his dog's grave. There are those who would not sit down among the angels, he says in his book, if their dog were not admitted ...
... writing to Alys that 'it seems the greatest sign of friendship that he can give anyone is to take them to see his dog's grave. There are those who would not sit down among the angels, he says in his book, if their dog were not admitted ...
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... writing cold letters to Alys, in the deliberate hope of destroying her affection. I was cruel still, and ruthless ... writing comes from technique, is quite mistaken; writing is the outlet to feelings which are all but overmastering and ...
... writing cold letters to Alys, in the deliberate hope of destroying her affection. I was cruel still, and ruthless ... writing comes from technique, is quite mistaken; writing is the outlet to feelings which are all but overmastering and ...
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... I learnt to be a social being and not a person of fire and insight; and where she was miserable the whole time, in spite of the pleasure of getting on'. Even by November he was writing, 'London grows more and more odious to me, and I.
... I learnt to be a social being and not a person of fire and insight; and where she was miserable the whole time, in spite of the pleasure of getting on'. Even by November he was writing, 'London grows more and more odious to me, and I.
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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