Bertrand Russell (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Monk
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1921-1970
- Setting: London, Cornwall, and various cities throughout the United States
- Principal Characters: Bertrand Russell, Dora Winifred (Black) Russell, Patricia (Spence) Russell, Edith (Finch) Russell, John Russell, Kate Russell (Tait), Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alfred North Whitehead, G. E. (George Edward) Moore, Griffin Barry, Che Guevara, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Beatrice (Potter) Webb, Ralph Schoenman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Socialism, Love or romance, Twentieth century, 1940’s, Friendship, Writing, 1920’s, 1930’s, Mental illness, England or English people, London, Nobel Prizes, Loneliness, Mathematics or mathematicians, Wales or Welsh people
- Locales: United States, London, England, Cambridge, England, Cornwall, England
In Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921-1970, Ray Monk completes his account of the philosopher’s life begun in his acclaimed Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872-1921 (1996). Monk provides an important corrective to the usual image of Russell as a benign eminence grise, an espouser of quaint but ultimately harmless social views, and a culmination of the philosophical tradition that had produced such figures as Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Kurt Gödel (1906-1978). Monk’s image of Russell is both more controversial and more complex...
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