ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
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When intellect met arrogance
GORDON PARSONS builds a picture of the paradoxical life of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell (centre), alongside his wife Edith leading an anti-nuclear march in London, February 18 1961
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Bertrand Russell: Public Intellectual
Edited by Madigan & Peter Stone
Spokesman Books £19.99
THE title of this collection of 19 essays on the life of arguably the 20th century’s most famous philosopher raises the question, what is a public intellectual?
Michael Ruse in his brief opening memoire of Bertrand Russell defines the soubriquet as “the professional in the public market place.”
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