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Fact and Fiction by Bertrand Russell
Category: Education | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. Also broaching on the highly controversial issues of war and peace, i ...Show more
Freedom and Organisation, 1814-1914 by Bertrand Russell
Category: History
'The purpose of this book is to trace the opposition and interaction of two main causes of change in the Nineteenth century: the belief in freedom which was common to Liberals and Radicals, and the necessity for organization which arose through industrial and scientific technique.' - Bertrand Russell A ...Show more
Freedom and Organization by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Written by one of the twentieth century's most significant thinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to be Bertrand Russell's major work on political history. It traces the main causes of political change during a period of one hundred years, which he argues were predominantly influenced by thre ...Show more
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that ...Show more
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Hailed as "lucid and magisterial" byThe Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy. Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration o ...Show more
Human Knowledge Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy
How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge,Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between ‘individ ...Show more
Human Society in Ethics and Politics by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1954, Human Society in Ethics and Politics is Bertrand Russell's last full account of his ethical and political positions relating to both politics and religion. Ethics, he argues, are necessary to man because of the conflict between intelligence and impulse - if one were without the ...Show more
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell; Bradley Trevor Greive
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Most People Would Die Sooner Than Think - Bertrand Russell Considered othe Voltaire of his timeo, Bertrand Russell was a fearless iconoclast who stood unbowed before political and religious leaders; his disdain for conventional thinking and accepted beliefs set him apart from his academic peers and at o ...Show more
In Praise of Idleness - A Timeless Essay by Bertrand Russell
Category: Languages and Reference
New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive breathes new life into Bertrand Russell’s classic work, In Praise of Idleness, with a magical package that includes BTG’s new introduction, biographical afterword, historical notes, additional quotations and comic illustrations. This is the perfect ...Show more
In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
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 o ...Show more
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell; Michael Potter (Foreword by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
"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 ...Show more