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31. Mortals and Others

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Between 1931 and 1935, Bertrand Russell contributed some 156 essays to the literary pages of the American newspaper New York American. These were often fun, humorous observations on the very real issues of the day, such as the Depression, the rise of Nazism and Prohibition, to more perennial themes...

    Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
32. Our Knowledge of the External World

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Our Knowledge of the External World is a compilation of lectures Bertrand Russell delivered in the US in which he questions the very relevance and legitimacy of philosophy. In it he investigates the relationship between ‘individual’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge and questions the means in which we...

    Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
33. Marriage and Morals

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Marriage and Morals is a compelling cross-cultural examination of individual, familial and societal attitudes towards sex and marriage. By exploring the codes by which we live our sexual lives and conventional morality, Russell daringly sets out a new morality, shaped and influenced by dramatic...

    Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge
34. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between ‘...

    Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge
35. An Outline of Philosophy

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    In his controversial book An Outline of Philosophy, first published in 1927, Bertrand Russell argues that humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. From our inner-world to the outer-world, from our physical world to the universe, his...

    Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge
36. The Scientific Outlook

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    According to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular facts. It is, he argues, far superior to art, where much of the knowledge is intangible and assumed. In The Scientific Outlook, Russell delivers one of his most important works,...

    Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge
37. Philosophical Essays

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    First published in 1910, Philosophical Essays is one of Bertrand Russell’s earliest works and marks an important period in the evolution of thought of one of the world’s most influential thinkers. This selection of seven essays displays Russell's incisiveness and brilliance of exposition in the...

    Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge
38. Unpopular Essays

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    A classic collection of Bertrand Russell’s more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell’s most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to "combat… the growth in Dogmatism", on first publication in 1950 it met with critical acclaim and...

    Published February 15th 2009 by Routledge
39. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 21

    How to Keep the Peace: The Pacifist Dilemma, 1935–38

    By Bertrand Russell

    Edited by Andrew Bone

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    In Collected Papers 21 Bertrand Russell grapples with the dilemma that confronted all opponents of militarism and war in the 1930s—namely, what was the most politically and morally appropriate response to international aggression. How to Keep the Peace contains some of Russell’s best-known essays,...

    Published April 23rd 2008 by Routledge
40. The Conquest of Happiness

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to...

    Published January 31st 2006 by Routledge