The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of communist aggression. In those years the author was teaching philosophy at American universities and exercising a growing influence on America s student population. The essays assembled here are fundamentally concerned with the art of reckoning in the fields of mathematics, logic and philosophy. The simplicity of Russell s exposition is astonishing, as is his...

Russell, the sage non-conformist, is always meaningful, no matter what the topic or the issue. In this small book are presented some of his old but nonetheless remarkable observations, and some of his very new thoughts, as expressed on his 90th birthday. Here are titles, taken at random from the Table of Contents: Psychoanalysis Takes a Look; Envy and Belief; On Male Superiority; What Social Science Can Do; Intellectual Rubbish; Don t Be Too Certain; On Being Old."

Bertrand Russell, a Welsh atheist, wore many hats including philosopher, historical, logician, mathematician, and social reformist. In 1950 he won a Nobel Prize in literature for his humanitarianism and freedom of thought. Russell spent one month in Soviet Russia in 1920 and recorded his impressions in this essay. This is a work of commentary, of reflections, and journalism. The book gives a Westerner's valuable view of the prospects of Lenin's Russia.

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In this harsh and unsparing book, Bertrand Russell presents the unvarnished truth about the war in Vietnam. He argues that "To understand the war, we must understand America"-and, in doing so, we must understand that racism in the United States created a climate in which it was difficult for Americans to understand what they were doing in Vietnam. According to Russell, it was this same racism that provoked "a barbarous, chauvinist outcry when American pilots who have bombed hospitals, schools, dykes, and civilian centres are accused of committing war crimes." Even today, more than forty years...

An unabridged edition to include: Political Ideals - Capitalism and the Wage System - Pitfalls in Socialism - Individual Liberty and Public Control - National Independence and Internationalism

This book presents the 1946 National Book League lecture, delivered by Bertrand Russell on the relationship between philosophies and the development of political systems.

Bertrand Russell, (1872 - 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. Russells books are excellent for those who have no experience of reading philosophy.

This volume contains many of his most notable works:

The Problems with Philosophy,
The Analysis of the Mind,
Mysticism and Logic and other Essays,
Political Ideals,
The Problem of China,
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism,
Proposed Roads to Freedom,
Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy

This book, originally entitled Why Men Fight, is generally seen as the fullest expression of Russell's political philosophy. Russell argues that after the experience of the Great War the individualistic approach of traditional liberalism has reached its limits. Political theory must be based on the motivated forces of creativity and impulse rather than on competition. Both are best fostered in the family, in education, and in religion - each of which Russell proceeds to discuss.
The ideas expressed in Principles of Social Reconstruction have greatly contributed to...