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Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872–1921

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Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872–1921
39.99 €
Born in 1872, the third child of Viscount Amberley and heir to the title of Earl, Bertrand Russell became the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. His first masterpiece Principia Mathematica, written with Alfred North Whitehead, set the course for modernist and postmodernist attention to language. But Russell's interest in philosophy was only one side of his insatiable appetite for new ideas. His energy and enthusiasm soon spilled over into the political arena as well. At the age of forty, he became the leader of the pacifist opposition to the First World War. His anti-war pamphlets and protests led to his expulsion from the university and imprisonment - not for the last time. Russell's personal life is marked by the same promiscuity as his public life. The author of Marriage and Morality, which won the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, boldly applied his free-thinking principles to the closest of relationships. Russell's avant-garde philosophy of free love combined with principled pacifism made him an international idol of the left in the 1960s. "The Spirit of Solitude" is the first biography of this remarkable figure to attempt to peer behind the veil of Russell's public life and reveal a complex and even contradictory character that has hitherto remained poorly understood. Drawing on five years of research, including never-before-published letters, manuscripts, and articles, world-renowned biographer Ray Monk presents an intimate portrait that emphasizes the dramatic interplay of Russell's philosophical creativity, social responsibility, and erotic urges. Monk uniquely combines a deep intellectual understanding of Russell's work with an insight into his character and a desire to create a superb literary work, an epic biography on the scale of a novel.