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  • MYSTICISM AND LOGIC
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    MYSTICISM AND LOGIC
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    “To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things – this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship.” —Bertrand Russell Mysticism and Logic is one of Russell's most celebrated collection of essays. They not only set the tone for analytical philosophy in the English-speaking world but are ...

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  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF LEIBNIZ
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    THE PHILOSOPHY OF LEIBNIZ
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Bertrand Russell’s study of the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz is one of his earliest books, providing a fascinating glimpse of his philosophical brilliance. It remains one of the most important books on this polymathic seventeenth-century thinker and the only book Russell wrote about a major philosopher. Written when Russell was only in his late twenties, it g...

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  • LOGIC AND KNOWLEDGE
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    LOGIC AND KNOWLEDGE
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Bertrand Russell's writings on logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language and epistemology are among the most influential of the twentieth century. Logic and Knowledge presents Russell's very best and most important work on these topics in a single volume, which by placing philosophical logic at its core was of monumental importance in shaping the path of analytical philosophy....

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  • AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING AND TRUTH
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    AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING AND TRUTH
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    In An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Bertrand Russell returns to philosophy after a long period of writing about education, religion and marriage. Investigating how we can be justified in what we know and how we can reconcile knowledge of the physical world with immediate sensory knowledge, Russell sets out to reconcile the various aspects of his thought since his early logici...

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  • THE ATOMIC AGE
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    THE ATOMIC AGE
    M. L. OLIPHANT / P. M. S. BLACKETT / R. F. HARROD / BERTRAND RUSSELL / LIONEL CURTIS / D. W. BROGAN
    Originally published in 1949, this volume The Atomic Age contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust in 1948. Following the first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945 the Western world was very concerned about the impact of nuclear war. This book reflects on the consequences at that time from a number of different angles. This book is a re...

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  • FACT AND FICTION
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    FACT AND FICTION
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    This collection of Bertrand Russell's essays is available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1961. Its first section deals with the books which influenced Russell in his youth. The works of Shelley, Turgenev, Ibsen and Gibbon are among those selected for discussion. The second part is devoted to essays on politics and education. The third section is one of...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 7
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 7
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    This volume provides a historical introduction in the writing of the manuscript. Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript is the only book-length work on epistemology that Russell left unpublished in its original form, and its publication here is an important addition to knowledge of Russell's thought. ...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 8
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 8
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    This volume collects together all of Russell's philosophical papers inspired by his work with Whitehead on 'Principia Mathematica'. ...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 14
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 14
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    During the First World War, Bertrand Russell was political commentator for The Tribunal, the official weekly publication of the No-Conscription Fellowship, of which Russell was Action Chairman.This volume contains many short papers from that period, which reflect Russell's immediate reponses to developments in the conflict. These documents bear witness to Russell's growing comm...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 15
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 15
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 15 assembles Russell's writings on his experiences of visiting and reflecting on Russia and China.Having emerged from the Great War determined to prevent another armed conflict, Russell became a champion of international socialism as the antidote to the destructive forces of nationalism and capitalism. His quest for international...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 12
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 12
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Contemplation and Action 1902-14 is the first volume devoted exclusively to Russell's non-technical writings. It follows chronologically Volume 1, Cambridge Essays: 1888-99 which presented his earliest papers. ...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL VOLUME 21
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL VOLUME 21
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    In Collected Papers 21 Bertrand Russell grapples with the dilemma that confronted all opponents of militarism and war in the 1930s—namely, what was the most politically and morally appropriate response to international aggression. How to Keep the Peace contains some of Russell’s best-known essays, such as the famous Auto-obituary and his treatment of The Superior Virtue of the ...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 13
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 13
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Bertrand Russell's shorter writings against British participation in the First World War from its outbreak until the formation of Lloyd George's coalition. It includes the fullest documentation yet of the continuing government attempts to stifle Russell, then regarded as Britain's most dangerous pacifist. ...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 6
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 6
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's entire career. In addition to the papers reprinted here, he bought Principia Mathematica to its finished form and wrote The Problems of Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge and Knowledge of the External World. In October 1910 he began te...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 11
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 11
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    This volume collects together Russell's philosophical writings during the period from 1947-68. For about half of this period Russell worked steadily at philosophy but after the publication of My Philosophical Development in 1959 he retired from academic philosophy for the second time. After that date, only the occasional philosophical piece appeared, as he was preoccupied with ...

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  • ICARUS OR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
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    ICARUS OR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Mr. Haldane's Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his forecast, a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me somewhat sceptical. I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, r...

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  • THE ANALYSIS OF MIND
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    THE ANALYSIS OF MIND
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Bertrand Russell wrote The Analysis of Mind during one of the most turbulent periods of his life. He began it in 1918 whilst in in prison in London for his opposition to the First World War, and completed it in Peking (now Beijing) in 1921, where he had been giving lectures at the National University. It is a vital book for understanding Russell's philosophy. He argues for a fr...

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  • AN ESSAY ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRY
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    AN ESSAY ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRY
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 when Bertrand Russell was 25 years old. It marks his first major foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. It provides a brilliant insight into Russell's early philosophical thought and an engaging and authoritative introduction to the philosophic...

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  • MY PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENT
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    MY PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENT
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    My Philosophical Development is Russell's intellectual autobiography and provides a fascinating insight into the extraordinary energy and philosophical ambition that saw him write over 40 books. As well as offering some fascinating glimpses into the changing nature of his philosophical beliefs, Russell also reflects on the fundamental themes that governed his thinking in later ...

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  • INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY
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    INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    "The philosophy of mathematics will naturally be expected to deal with questions at the frontier of knowledge, as to which comparative certainty is not yet attained. But separation of such questions is hardly likely to be fruitful unless the more scientific parts of mathematics are known. A book dealing with those parts may, therefore, claim to be an introduction to mathematica...

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  • THE ANALYSIS OF MATTER
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    THE ANALYSIS OF MATTER
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    The Analysis of Matter is the product of thirty years of thinking by one of the twentieth century's best-known philosophers. An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of physics, it was written against the background of stunning new developments in physics earlier in the century, above all relativity, as well as the excitement around quantum theory, which was just being dev...

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  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 26
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    THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 26
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 26 covers a period of transition in Russell's political life between his orthodox and sometimes pugnacious defence of the West in the early post-war, and the dissenting advocacy of nuclear disarmament and détente that started in earnest in the mid-1950s. While some of the assembled writings echo harsh prior criticism of Soviet ex...

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  • PORTRAITS FROM MEMORY
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    PORTRAITS FROM MEMORY
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    ‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.’ – Bertrand Russell, Portraits from Memory Portraits from Memory is one of Bertrand Russell’s most self-reflective and engaging books. Whilst not intended as an autobiography, it is a vivid recollection of some of h...

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  • THE PROBLEM OF CHINA
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    THE PROBLEM OF CHINA
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    'China, by her resources and her population, is capable of being the greatest power in the world after the United States.' Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China In 1920 the philosopher Bertrand Russell spent a year in China as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Beijing (then Peking), where his lectures on mathematical logic enthralled students and listeners, includin...

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  • IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS
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    IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of maddening unreason. From a devastating critique of the ancestry of fascism to a vehement defence of 'useless' knowledge, with...

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  • WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN
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    WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief. Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought we to behave? Russell snatches that comfort away, leaving us instead with other, more troublesome alternatives: re...

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  • UNPOPULAR ESSAYS
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    UNPOPULAR ESSAYS
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    In this volume of essays Bertrand Russell is concerned to combat, in one way or another, the growth of dogmatism, whether of the Right or of the Left, which has hitherto characterised our tragic century. This serious purpose inspires them even if, at times, they seem flippant; for those who are solemn and pontifical. In subject they range from Philosophy for the Layman, The Fun...

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  • PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS
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    PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Published in 1903, this book was the first comprehensive treatise on the logical foundations of mathematics written in English. It sets forth, as far as possible without mathematical and logical symbolism, the grounds in favour of the view that mathematics and logic are identical. It proposes simply that what is commonly called mathematics are merely later deductions from logic...

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  • MARRIAGE AND MORALS
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    MARRIAGE AND MORALS
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    First published in 1985. Marriage and Morals won Bertrand Russell the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. With his customary wit and clarity, Russell explores the changing role of marriage, the codes of sexual ethics and the question of population. By what codes should we live our sexual lives? Every aspect, from the origin of marriage to the values of a healthy sex life, from ...

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  • THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS
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    THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell‘s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion ofThe Happy Man ...

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