Portraits from Memory: And Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9780367540845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str.

Bertrand Russell

Opis

Portraits from Memory is Russell at his best and will enthrall those new to Russell as well as those already well-acquainted with his work. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Nicholas Griffin.

Spis treści

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Nicholas Griffin  1. Adaptation: An Autobiographical Epitome  2. Six Autobiographical Talks  3. How to Grow Old  4. Reflections on my Eightieth Birthday  5. Portraits from Memory  6. Lord John Russell  7. John Stuart Mill  8. Mind and Matter  9. The Cult of "Common Usage"  10. Knowledge and Wisdom  11. A Philosophy for Our Time  12. A Plea for Clear Thinking  13. History as an Art  14. How I Write  15. The Road to Happiness  16. Symptoms of Orwell's 1984  17. Why I am Not a Communist  18. Man's Peril  19. Steps Towards Peace.  Index

O autorze

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.