BERTRAND RUSSELL: The Ghost of Madness. By Ray Monk. Free Press, $40. THE splendid subtitles of Ray Monk's two-volume biography of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell illuminate two aspects ...

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Over the course of a long career, Russell also ...

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All comic books are about a hero’s journey. Each hero must travel the path destined for him, be it Superman, Batman, Maus or as is the case with Logicomix, Bertrand Russell. Sure, Russell was a ...

In the introduction to the first volume of his biography of Russell, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, Ray Monk was clear, as his title indicated, about the story he had to tell, though also ...