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"Roads to Freedom" is a fascinating glimpse of progressive intellectual politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Written at the end of the first world war in the midst of great and rapid world change, the book is an historical analysis and criticism of Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, the author of "Why Men Fight." This deluxe edition of "Roads to Freedom" has an additional essay by Bertrand Russell titled "Democracy and Direct Action" and a never-before-included foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning philosopher and historian Will Durant. "A remarkable book by a remarkable man." The London Times "Really worth reading," The New York Evening Post. "We strongly advise a careful reading of 'Roads to Freedom' as good medicine for these times. Those who have the courage to look facts in the face will get from it both warning and information. Others if they can be induced to read, may be shocked by it out of a dangerous complacency." The Westminster Gazette BERTRAND RUSSELL (1872-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. A celebrated British philosopher and mathematician, his works include "Why I Am Not a Christian" (1927), "Power: A New Social Analysis" (1938), and "My Philosophical Development" (1959).

`E: Erroneous: Capable of being proved true'; `J: Jolly: The downfall of our enemies'; `M: Mystery: What I understand and you don't' . . . Enter the delightful, satirical world of the Good Citizen, according to one of the best-known writers and philosophers of modern times.

Originally published in 1947, this book presents the fourth annual lecture of the National Book League, which was delivered by Bertrand Russell in October 1946. In his lecture Russell provides a discussion of the relationship between philosophies and the development of political systems, in addition to the political qualities of philosophical thinking.

Features Bertrand Russell's shorter writings against British participation in the World War I from its outbreak until the formation of Lloyd George's coalition.

This volume signals reinvigoration of Russell the public campaigner and captures the essence of Russell's thinking about nuclear weapons and the Cold War in the mid 1950s.

This volume covers the period from the beginning of Whitehead and Russell's work on Volume 2 of the "Principles of Mathematics" to the critical discovery of the theory of descriptions in 1905. The collection includes many previously unpublished manuscripts.

This volume shows Russell in transition from a neo-Kantian and neo-Hegelian philosopher to an analytic philosopher of the first rank. It contains three articles which have not previously been published in English.

This volume collects together all of Russell's philosophical papers inspired by his work with Whitehead on "Principia Mathematica.".

This book provides the original text of A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, which was first published in 1900. The text includes an appendix containing extracts from Leibniz, classified according to subject. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Leibniz and the early philosophy of Russell.

The years covered by this volume of the "Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell" were among the most productive of Russell's entire career.

This volume captures the philospher and public icon's battles with injustice, ignorance and cruelty through more than 400 letters. They express his views on a wide range of subjects and tell us much about the social and political history of the time.

"The Bertrand Russell Archive has as before, yielded some interesting unpublished material ... this volume lavishly footnoted, elegantly produced and a pleasure to read, is a real treat for anyone interested in Russell or in that strange remote country, Edwardian England." -- London Times Higher Education Supplement

Charts the struggle between freedom and control, two determining forces in 19th-century history, from the defeat of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna to the lead-up to the First World War. Russell also considers the founding of democracy in America and the emerging Imperialism in Europe.

Written with Dora Black in 1920 this work examines the threat of industrialisation to human freedom and demonstrates how humanity perpetually struggles against the centralising forces of industrialisation and nationalism.