Bøker av Bertrand Russell

This volume brings together Russell's writings on ethics, politics, religion and academic philsophy. It should be a useful guide to the thought and development of one of the most famous philosophers of this century.

This acclaimed selection of Russell's early letters, available in paperback for the first time, reveals the full scope of his life and innermost thoughts up to the First World War.

A study of the conflicts between science and traditional religion during the last four centuries. This text examines accounts in which scientific advances clashed with Christian doctrine of the day, and points to the constant upheaval and re-evaluation of our systems of belief throughout history.

Originally entitled Why Men Fight, this work is generally seen as the fullest expression of Russell's political philosophy. The ideas laid out here greatly contributed to Russell's fame as a social critic and anti-war activist.

Presents a further selection of essays, ranging from the politically correct, to the perfectly obscure: from The Prospects of Democracy to Men Versus Insects.

In this collection of essays, Russell surveys the social and political consequences of his beliefs with characteristic clarity and humour. In Praise of Idleness is a tour de force that only Bertrand Russell could perform.

In the first of the BBC's famous Reith Lectures, Russell tackles what is still one of the most hotly debated issues of the twentieth century: the conflict between law, order and authority and the rights of each individual man and woman.

This is Bertrand Russell's classic attempt to show by means of examples, the nature, capacity and limitations of the logico-analytical method in philosophy.

Russel on Religion presents a unique selection of Bertrand Russell's writings on religion and related topics from the turn of the century to the end of his life which provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the development of his thin

Russell's classic examination of the relation between individual experience and the general body of scientific knowledge. It is a rigorous examination of the problems of an empiricist epistemology.

This important work was abandoned by Russell under the impact of Wittgenstein's ideas. It was first published in 1984 and is presented here for the first time in a handy student edition, with an introduction by Elizabeth Ramsden Eames.

This title presents Bertrand Russell's keen insights into the threat of nuclear conflict. Written at the height of the Cold War, the book offers an understanding of Russell's involvement in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and his passionate campaigning for peace.

This volume contains the essence of all Bertrand Russell's thought on education and society. Russell dissects the motives behind much educational theory and practice, and attacks the influence of chauvanism, snobbery and money.

This volume contains Russell's reviews of and introductions to other philosophical works including his famous introduction to Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus".

Published in 1903, this book was the first treatise on the logical foundations of mathematics to be written in English. It sets forth the arguments in favour of the view that mathematics and logic are identical.

Now available for the first time in paperback, this collection of essays display all of Russell's clarity, incisiveness and brilliance of exposition, particularly on matters of ethics and the nature of truth.

Characteristic and self-revealing, this book was written to combat the growth in Dogmatism.