The Great Philosophers: Russell
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- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2023
Summary
‘The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts’ Bertrand Russell
‘Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know’
Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transporting experience: ‘as dazzling as first love’. From that moment on, he would pursue his passion with undying devotion and fervour. Mathematics might succeed, he felt, where ph…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399612357 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399612352 |
| Author: | Ray Monk |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 53g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 110mm x 8mm |
| Series: | GREAT PHILOSOPHERS |
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The virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing * EVENING STANDARD *The books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance * TES *A promising venture * THE TIMES *Rarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap * FINANCIAL TIMES *If you want to acquire some first-hand experience of philosophy and democracy you would do well to read this welcome series * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT *
About The Author
Ray Monk
Ray Monk is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Southampton. He won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1991 Duff Cooper Prize for Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius and has also written biographies of Bertrand Russell and J. Robert Oppenheimer. His chief interests now lie in environmental activism and the promotion of veganism.
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