A HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY - and its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Russell, Bertrand

ISBN 10: 004109008X / ISBN 13: 9780041090086

Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1961

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Tenth impression 1983. Index 1.1kg weight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 848 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY - and its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
• Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, London
• Publication Date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 004109008X
• ISBN 13: 9780041090086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Edition; tenth impression.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

1961. New edition. 842 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.

About the Author

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, Viscount Amberley, born in Wales, May 18, 1872. Educated at home and at Trinity College, Cambridge. During World War I, served four months in prison as a pacifist, where he wrote Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. In 1910, published first volume of Principia Mathematica with Alfred Whitehead. Visited Russia and lectured on philosophy at the University of Peking in 1920. Returned to England and, with his wife, ran a progressive school for young children in Sussex from 1927-1932. Came to the United States, where he taught philosophy successively at the University of Chicago, University of California at Los Angeles, Harvard, and City College of New York. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Has been active in disarmament and anti-nuclear-testing movements while continuing to add to his large number of published books which include Philosophical Essays (1910); The ABC of Relativity (1925) Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948); Why I Am Not a Christian (1957); and The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967). For a chronological list of Russell's principal works see The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell (Simon and Schuster).