Bertrand Russell : The Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684828022 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 720 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Monk demonstrated that cracking good stories exist in the arcana of academic philosophy and in the lives of philosophers. Eliot (plus an affair with Eliot's wife Vivien), and the members of the Bloomsbury Group, up to the birth of Russell's son in 1921. We also see Russell's public life: his outspoken commitment to pacifism which ultimately led to his imprisonment, as well as his early advocacy and later disillusionment with socialism. Ray Monk is particularly adept at explicating Russell's philosophy: his desire to bring an end to interminable philosophical debates by developing new techniques for the logical analysis of philosophical problems. This initial volume takes us through the first fifty years of Russell's private, public, and intellectual life. We follow Russell through his boyhood and school
Nightmare Beyond the Pythagorean Dream This tiny book amazes me. Rather than attempt a biography, Monk focuses on one theme of Russell's life: his adventure with mathematics and the drive to reduce all of mathematics to logic, crystallized as a pristine whole of pure beauty -- the ultimate achievement of rational thought. Retracing the inspiration, successes, and ultimate defeat of that program, interpolating through the stages of Russell's own writings, Monk provides us with a glimpse of the integrity of a life co. Well-written bio of a less-than-fascinating character After finishing Ray Monk's brilliant _Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius_, I rushed to order his more recent bio of Bertrand Russell from Amazon. The good news is that Monk applies the same scrupulous research, insight, and objectivity to Russell as he did to Wittgenstein. The bad news is that, to me at least, Russell was so much less of an interesting figure than Wittgenstein, that the hundreds of pages of careful Russell biography (covering only the first half of his lo. Mick said Damning with faint praise. I must confess I only read up to the year 191Damning with faint praise Mick I must confess I only read up to the year 1914, but I fell I can confidently state that this is not so much a biography, as an attempt at historical fiction. Another reviewer described it as tabloid trash, but I wouldn't quite go that far. Only because in the description of events and reproduction of Russell's own letters the book is accurate, as it follows Ronald Clark's biography to a tee. I have compared the Clark book to the Monk book and it is evident that Monk followed C. , but I fell I can confidently state that this is not so much a biography, as an attempt at historical fiction. Another reviewer described it as tabloid trash, but I wouldn't quite go that far. Only because in the description of events and reproduction of Russell's own letters the book is accurate, as it follows Ronald Clark's biography to a tee. I have compared the Clark book to the Monk book and it is evident that Monk followed C
A definitive biography presents a portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher, uses unpublished letters, manuscripts, and papers that reveal his philosophical creativity, social conscience, and erotic drives.