The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 11: Last Philosophical Testament 1947-68 / Edition 1

by Bertrand Russell, John Slater, Peter Köllner

Overview

This volume collects together Russell's philosophical writings during the period from 1947-68. For about half of this period Russell worked steadily at philosophy but after the publication of My Philosophical Development in 1959 he retired from academic philosophy for the second time. After that date, only the occasional philosophical piece appeared, as he was preoccupied with political writings. In this volume there are a handful of papers dated later than 1959, and all of these were certainly written by Russell himself.
This volume contains Russell's writings on diverse philosophical interests, including autobiographical and self-critical papers, critiques of other philosophers and his controversial opinions on Christianity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415094092
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/03/1997
Series:	The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell , #11
Pages:	936
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

Only a handful of papers reprinted in this collection were written after 1959<-->Russell retired from academic philosophy for the second time after the publication of "My Philosophical Development", devoting his final years to political protest. 1949 and 1950<-->the years that Russell was appointed to the Order of Merit and awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature<-->fall in the period covered by this volume. The papers include autobiographical and self-critical writings as well as papers on non-demonstrative inference, his contemporaries, metaphysics and epistemology, ethics and politics, John Stuart Mill, religion, Albert Einstein, and ordinary language philosophy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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