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My Father, Bertrand Russell
- Title
- My Father, Bertrand Russell / Katharine Tait.
- Author
- Tait, Katharine, 1923-
- Publication
- New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 211 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill; 22 cm.
- Summary
- “ ”What was it like, having Bertrand Russell for a father?” Katharine Tait has been asked that question all her life; this book is her answer. Here, a complex and difficult man emerges. Bertrand Russell was a militant atheist, yet possessed a deeply religious nature. He was a gentle man, yet raised his children by rigid behaviors and principles. And though many women loved him, he never felt lovable, and could not remain faithful to any. Russell’s public virtues – his lucidity, his lofty rationality, his uncompromising idealism – wrought havoc in his private life. The very passions and fears he hoped to subdue by reason gave him the energy to move from woman to woman and career to career. Yet they overwhelmed members of his family and swept them up in waves of contradiction which only Russell himself could ride. Katharine Tait was raised by utopian principles, and educated in a progressive school run by her father and her feminist mother; inevitably and personally, her memoir touches on the great ethical and political debates of the twentieth century. Though modest in intention, My Father Bertrand Russell rises above personal concerns: it is a commentary on and criticism of modern progressive thought, and a testimony to the price of nonconformity”- Publisher
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 0151304327
- 9780151304325
- LCCN
- 75015719
- OCLC
- ocm01365270
- 1365270
- SCSB-1733730
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library