Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921, Monk Ray

Автор: Monk, Ray
Название: Ludwig Wittgenstein
ISBN: 0099883708 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099883708
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In this biography of Wittgenstein, the author interleaves the philosophical and emotional aspects of his subject`s life.

Автор: Monk, Ray
Название: Ludwig Wittgenstein
ISBN: 0140159959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140159950
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Monk, Ray
Название: Inside The Centre
ISBN: 0099433532 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099433538
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Описание: Having formed suspicious connections in the 1930s, in the wake of the Allied victory in World War Two, Oppenheimer`s attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race would lead many to question his loyalties - and set him on a collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch hunters.

Автор: Monk Ray
Название: Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center
ISBN: 0385722044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385722049
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: An unforgettable story of discovery and unimaginable destruction and a major biography of one of America's most brilliant--and most divisive--scientists, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center vividly illuminates the man who would go down in history as "the father of the atomic bomb." Oppenheimer's talent and drive secured him a place in the pantheon of great physicists and carried him to the laboratories where the secrets of the universe revealed themselves. But they also led him to contribute to the development of the deadliest weapon on earth, a discovery he soon came to fear. His attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race--coupled with political leanings at odds with post-war America--led many to question his loyalties, and brought down upon him the full force of McCarthyite anti-communism. Digging deeply into Oppenheimer's past to solve the enigma of his motivations and his complex personality, Ray Monk uncovers the extraordinary, charming, tortured man--and the remarkable mind--who fundamentally reshaped the world.

Автор: Monk, Ray
Название: How to read wittgenstein
ISBN: 186207724X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781862077249
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Описание: `Ray Monk here presents what is surely the best short introduction to the work of this wonderful thinker` John Banville, Irish Times

Автор: Monk Ray
Название: Bertrand Russell: 1921-1970, the Ghost of Madness
ISBN: 1501153773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501153778
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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.
Russell's 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 York's 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 Russell's 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 Guevara's 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 Russell's public activities, scrutinizing his sometimes paradoxical and often outrageous pronouncements. Monk's focus, however, is on the tragedy of Russell's personal life, and in revealing this inner drama Monk has relied heavily on the cooperation of Russell's surviving relatives and access to previously unexamined legal and private correspondence. A central player in Russell's 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 John's daughter Lucy (who was Russell's 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 Russell's unique life and work. Together with Ray Monk's 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