内容简介
HistoryOfWesternPhilosophywaspublishedin1946.Adazzlinglyambitiousproject,itremainsunchallengedtothisdayastheultimateintroductiontoWesternphilosophy.
作者简介
BertrandArthurWilliamRussell,3rdEarlRussell,ViscountAmberley,borninWales,May18,1872.EducatedathomeandatTrinityCollege,Cambridge.DuringWorldWarI,servedfourmonthsinprisonasapacifist,wherehewroteIntroductiontoMathematicalPhilosophy.In1910,publishedfirstvolumeofPrincipiaMathematicawithAlfredWhitehead.VisitedRussiaandlecturedonphilosophyattheUniversityofPekingin1920.ReturnedtoEnglandand,withhiswife,ranaprogressiveschoolforyoungchildreninSussexfrom1927-1932.CametotheUnitedStates,wherehetaughtphilosophysuccessivelyattheUniversityofChicago,UniversityofCaliforniaatLosAngeles,Harvard,andCityCollegeofNewYork.AwardedtheNobelPrizeforLiteraturein1950.Hasbeenactiveindisarmamentandanti-nuclear-testingmovementswhilecontinuingtoaddtohislargenumberofpublishedbookswhichincludePhilosophicalEssays(1910);TheABCofRelativity(1925)HumanKnowledge:ItsScopeandLimits(1948);WhyIAmNotaChristian(1957);andTheAutobiographyofBertrandRussell(1967).ForachronologicallistofRussell'sprincipalworksseeTheBasicWritingsofBertrandRussell(SimonandSchuster).--ThistextreferstoanalternatePaperbackedition.
