1st Edition

Portraits from Memory And Other Essays

By Bertrand Russell Copyright 2021
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

‘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... Read more

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

Biography

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.