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The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 2 - The Public Years 1914-1970 (Hardcover, New)
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The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 2 - The Public Years 1914-1970 (Hardcover, New)
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An "epistolary biography" comprised of a selection of Russell's
previously unpublished correspondence - mostly love letters to his
wife, Alys, mid to Ottoline Morrell, a married Bloomsbury courtesan
- discussing his work, education, women's rights, and his own
priggish morality. Griffin (Philosophy/McMaster Univ.) clearly
appreciates both the cerebral "logic machine," as Russell called
himself, and the lonely, confused, passionate lover. Descended from
eccentric, politically powerful aristocrats and orphaned at an
early age, Russell (1872-1970), over the objections of his
grandmother, married an American Quaker five years his senior - the
subject of many letters. Fearful of perpetuating the madness that
had haunted both of their families, the couple avoided children but
feared contraception, which Russell believed had caused his
father's epilepsy. Still, the first ten years of his marriage were
his most "fruitful" as a mathematical philosopher. They were
followed by ten years of dutiful devotion to his emotionally
fragile wife - whom, impulsively, he had decided he didn't love.
Russell did love the elusive Ottoline, however, whom he wooed with
long daily letters, over one thousand of them. During a year in
America, he found a cure for the gum disease that had made him
repugnant to Ottoline - and he fell for another woman, 28-year-old
Helen Dudley, who, as this collection concludes, was on her way to
England to marry him and to bear the children he longed for. The
great names are all here: Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Joseph Conrad,
Gilbert Murray, et al., with their brilliant minds, high causes -
and dysfunctional lives. And, as these letters so pitifully reveal,
Russell's strength as a philosopher - his abstract, unyielding,
insular nature - prevented him from achieving the intimacy,
children, and romance he craved. A brilliant psychological
portrait, annotated and explained with tact and sensitivity.
(Kirkus Reviews)
This long-awaited second volume of Russell's best letters reveals the inner workings of a philosophical genius and an impassioned campaigner for peace and social reform. The letters, only three of which have been published before, cover most of Russell's adult life, a period in which he wrote over thirty books, including his famous History of Western Philosophy. Richly illustrated with photographs from Russell's life, the collection includes letters to Ho Chi Minh, Tito, Jawaharlal Nehru and Albert Einstein.
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