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Why I am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
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About This Item
Allen & Unwin, London, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. xvi + 225pp. Binding firm, spine slightly cocked. Endpapers partially browned, text block clean. Dust Jacket marked and chipped with slight loss and a couple of larger tears. Library sticker to jacket spine. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Edges browned. Ex-library, with minimal stamps and markings (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Religion & Theology; Philosophy. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52193. .
Synopsis
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scrupulous logic, and lofty wisdom for which his other work as philosopher, writer, and teacher has been famous. These qualities make the essays included in this book perhaps the most graceful and moving presentation of the freethinker's position since the days of Hume and Voltaire. "I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue," Russell declares in his Preface, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle man's mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as 1954. The book has been edited, with Lord Russell's full approval and cooperation, by Professor Paul Edwards of the Philosophy Department of New York University. In an Appendix, Professor Edwards contributes a full account of the highly controversial "Bertrand Russell Case" of 1940, in which Russell was judicially declared "unfit" to teach philosophy at the College of the City of New York. Whether the reader shares or rejects Bertrand Russell's views, he will find this book an invigorating challenge to set notions, a masterly statement of a philosophical position, and a pure joy to read.
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- Seller
- Dreadnought Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 52193
- Title
- Why I am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
- Author
- Bertrand Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- BZDB243 religion, Christian, philosophy Religion & Theology; Philosophy. Unbranded Bertrand Russell Why I am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Religion & Theology;
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