Biography & Memoir
Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography tells the story of a life in which mathematics, philosophy, politics, pacifism, education, love, and public controversy repeatedly collide. Russell begins from the world of late Victorian aristocracy and moves toward intellectual life at Cambridge, where his
Psychology & the Mind
Russell investigates mental phenomena through a philosophy of mind shaped by his broader analytic method. Questions about perception, belief, sensation and the relation between mind and the world make this a useful bridge between psychology, epistemology and philosophy
Politics & Society
Bertrand Russell offers a Western philosopher's analysis of China, its political institutions, culture, social structure, and relationship with the major powers of the early twentieth century
Philosophy & Ideas
A remarkably direct doorway into philosophical questions. Russell moves through appearance and reality, knowledge, doubt and the limits of what we can claim to know without turning the reader into a specialist first