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Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback, UK ed.)
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This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and
truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell's life. Raised by his
paternal grandparents, young Russell was never told the whereabouts
of his parents. Driven by a desire for knowledge of his own
history, he attempted to force the world to yield to his yearnings:
for truth, clarity and resolve. As he grew older, and increasingly
sophisticated as a philosopher and mathematician, Russell strove to
create an objective language with which to describe the world - one
free of the biases and slippages of the written word. At the same
time, he began courting his first wife, teasing her with riddles
and leaning on her during the darker days, when his quest was
bogged down by paradoxes, frustrations and the ghosts of his
family's secrets. Ultimately, he found considerable success - but
his career was stalled when he was outmatched by an intellectual
rival: his young, strident, brilliantly original student, Ludwig
Wittgenstein. An insightful and complexly layered narrative,
Logicomix reveals both Russell's inner struggle and the quest for
the foundations of logic. Narration by an older, wiser Russell, as
well as asides from the author himself, make sense of the story's
heady and powerful ideas. At its heart, Logicomix is a story about
the conflict between pure reason and the persistent flaws of
reality, a narrative populated by great and august thinkers, young
lovers, ghosts and insanity.
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