Portraits from memory and other essays (Record no. 8033)
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International Standard Book Number | 9780367540845 |
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Classification number | 192 |
Item number | RUS |
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Personal name | Russell, Bertrand |
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Title | Portraits from memory and other essays |
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2021 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | xiv, 220 p. |
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Price type code | GBP |
Price amount | 16.99 |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
General note | Table of content:<br/>Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Nicholas Griffin<br/><br/>1. Adaptation: An Autobiographical Epitome<br/><br/>2. Six Autobiographical Talks<br/><br/>3. How to Grow Old<br/><br/>4. Reflections on my Eightieth Birthday<br/><br/>5. Portraits from Memory<br/><br/>6. Lord John Russell<br/><br/>7. John Stuart Mill<br/><br/>8. Mind and Matter<br/><br/>9. The Cult of "Common Usage"<br/><br/>10. Knowledge and Wisdom<br/><br/>11. A Philosophy for Our Time<br/><br/>12. A Plea for Clear Thinking<br/><br/>13. History as an Art<br/><br/>14. How I Write<br/><br/>15. The Road to Happiness<br/><br/>16. Symptoms of Orwell's 1984<br/><br/>17. Why I am Not a Communist<br/><br/>18. Man's Peril<br/><br/>19. Steps Towards Peace.<br/><br/>Index<br/>[https://www.routledge.com/Portraits-from-Memory-And-Other-Essays/Russell/p/book/9780367540845?srsltid=AfmBOop5ua_xkmKculB9nZYCQu-4lL9Pger6DZeGQUAHW3tf7vgb5m1z] |
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Summary, etc. | ‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.’ – Bertrand Russell, Portraits from Memory<br/><br/>Portraits from Memory is one of Bertrand Russell’s most self-reflective and engaging books. Whilst not intended as an autobiography, it is a vivid recollection of some of his celebrated contemporaries, such as George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb and D. H. Lawrence. Russell provides some arresting and sometimes amusing insights into writers with whom he corresponded. He was fascinated by Joseph Conrad, with whom he formed a strong emotional bond, writing that his Heart of Darkness was not just a story but an expression of Conrad’s ‘philosophy of life’. There are also some typically pithy Russellian observations; H. G. Wells ‘derived his importance from quantity rather than quality’, whilst after a brief and fraught friendship Russell thought D. H. Lawrence ‘had no real wish to make the world better, but only to indulge in eloquent soliloquy about how bad it was’.<br/><br/>This engaging book also includes some of Russell’s customary razor-sharp essays on a rich array of subjects, from his ardent pacifism, liberal politics and morality to the ethics of education, the skills of good writing and how he came to philosophy as a young man. These include ‘A Plea for Clear Thinking’, ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’ and ‘How I Write’.<br/>(https://www.routledge.com/Portraits-from-Memory-And-Other-Essays/Russell/p/book/9780367540845?srsltid=AfmBOop5ua_xkmKculB9nZYCQu-4lL9Pger6DZeGQUAHW3tf7vgb5m1z) |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Biography |
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Koha item type | Book |
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Dewey Decimal Classification | Public Policy & General Management | IN31969 | 18-12-2024 | Indian Institute of Management LRC | Indian Institute of Management LRC | General Stacks | 01/13/2025 | Overseas Press India Private | 1276.63 | 192 RUS | 007180 | 01/13/2025 | 1 | 1964.04 | 01/13/2025 | Book |