Description
Published as part of a batch of Russell titles, Russell is a long over-due addition to the Routledge Classics series.
One of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, its message couldn't be more relevant in today's world.
Arguably Russell's most famous book after History of Western Philosophy
With a new preface by Simon Blackburn, University of Cambridge, the author of the bestsellers Think and Being Good (both OUP)
Russell - British philosopher, logician, essayist, and renowned peace advocate. One of the greatest thinkers the world has ever produced, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition -- Editor’s Introduction -- Preface by Bertrand Russell -- 1 Why I am not a Christian -- 2 Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilisation? -- 3 Do We Survive Death? -- 4 Seems, Madam? Nay, it is -- 5 On Catholic and Protestant Sceptics -- 6 Life in the Middle Ages -- 7 The Fate of Thomas Paine -- 8 Nice People -- 9 The New Generation -- 10 Our Sexual Ethics -- 11 Freedom and the Colleges -- 12 The Existence of God—a Debate Between Bertrand Russell and Father F. C. Copleston, SJ -- 13 Can Religion Cure Our Troubles? -- 14 Religion and Morals -- Appendix: How Bertrand Russell was Prevented from Teaching at the College of the City of New York -- Index.
