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Автор: Monk Ray
Название: Bertrand Russell: 1921-1970, the Ghost of Madness
Перевод названия: Рей Монк: Бертран Рассел. 1921-1970 гг. Призрак безумия
ISBN: 9781501153778
Издательство: Free Press
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1501153773
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 608
Вес: 0.88 кг.
Дата издания: 21.05.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 34
Поставляется из: США
Описание: In the second half of his life, Bertrand Russell transformed himself from a major philosopher, whose work was intelligible to a small elite, into a political activist and popular writer, known to millions throughout the world. Yet his life is the tragic story of a man who believed in a modern, rational approach to life and who, though his ideas guided popular opinion throughout the twentieth century, lost everything.
Russells views on marriage, religion, education, and politics attracted legions of devoted followers and, at the same time, provoked harsh attacks from every direction. On the one hand, he was stripped of his post at New Yorks City College because he was thought to be a bad influence on his students, and on the other, he was awarded the Order of Merit, the Nobel Prize in literature, and a lifetime Fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge. He lived to be ninety-seven, and as he became older he became increasingly controversial. Monk quotes Russells telegrams to Kennedy and Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis, an influence that Russell and his followers believed tipped the balance toward peace. Russell devoted his last years to a campaign organized by his secretary to lend support to Che Guevaras call for a globally coordinated revolutionary struggle against U.S. imperialism. Until now, this last campaign has been misunderstood as a -- perhaps misguided, but nevertheless innocent -- plea for world peace. Monk reveals it was no such thing.
Drawing on thousands of documents collected at the Russell archives in Canada, Monk steers through the turbulence of Russells public activities, scrutinizing his sometimes paradoxical and often outrageous pronouncements. Monks focus, however, is on the tragedy of Russells personal life, and in revealing this inner drama Monk has relied heavily on the cooperation of Russells surviving relatives and access to previously unexamined legal and private correspondence. A central player in Russells life was his first son, John. Russell applied the methods of the new science of child psychology in his parenting, believing that a new generation of children could be reared to be independent, fearless, and free. But instead of being a model of this new generation, John became anxious, withdrawn, and eventually schizophrenic. Nor was Johns daughter Lucy (who was Russells favorite grandchild) to be a model of the new generation; gradually she grew so emotionally disturbed that, at the age of twenty-six, she took her own life.
The Ghost of Madness completes the most searching examination yet published of Bertrand Russells unique life and work. Together with Ray Monks highly praised first volume of the biography, The Spirit of Solitude, this is the classic account of an extraordinary man who championed the great ideas of the twentieth century and was all but destroyed by them. It is a portrait of the mind of a century

Bertrand Russell: 1921-1970, the Ghost of Madness, Monk Ray