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100 _aRussell, Bertrand
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245 _aPortraits from memory and other essays
260 _bRoutledge
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300 _axiv, 220 p.
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500 _aTable of content: Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Nicholas Griffin 1. Adaptation: An Autobiographical Epitome 2. Six Autobiographical Talks 3. How to Grow Old 4. Reflections on my Eightieth Birthday 5. Portraits from Memory 6. Lord John Russell 7. John Stuart Mill 8. Mind and Matter 9. The Cult of "Common Usage" 10. Knowledge and Wisdom 11. A Philosophy for Our Time 12. A Plea for Clear Thinking 13. History as an Art 14. How I Write 15. The Road to Happiness 16. Symptoms of Orwell's 1984 17. Why I am Not a Communist 18. Man's Peril 19. Steps Towards Peace. Index [https://www.routledge.com/Portraits-from-Memory-And-Other-Essays/Russell/p/book/9780367540845?srsltid=AfmBOop5ua_xkmKculB9nZYCQu-4lL9Pger6DZeGQUAHW3tf7vgb5m1z]
520 _a‘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 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’. 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’. (https://www.routledge.com/Portraits-from-Memory-And-Other-Essays/Russell/p/book/9780367540845?srsltid=AfmBOop5ua_xkmKculB9nZYCQu-4lL9Pger6DZeGQUAHW3tf7vgb5m1z)
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