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1 августа 2012 г., 13:41
Russell's Nobel Prize was... «Russell: A Very Short Introduction»
Russell's Nobel Prize was awarded to him for literature, and the book cited was Marriage and Morals. Russell wrote much on practical moral questions, some of the best of it to be found in the dozens of short pieces he contributed to newspapers, not least those published by the Hearst Press in America during the early 1930s. In these pieces (invariably 750 words long, as required by the size of the column reserved for them on the newspaper page) Russell comes across as remarkably observant, tolerant, humane, and sensible — and on many questions a long way ahead not only of his time but of ours.
