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The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 26 covers a period of transition in Russell's political life between his defence of the West in the early post-war, and the dissenting advocacy of nuclear disarmament and détente that started in earnest in the mid-1950s.
List of contents
Introduction
Andrew G. Bone Chronology
Part 1: Australian Broadcasts, Lectures, Articles and Miscellanea 1.
Guest of Honour [1950] Three Broadcasts for
Window on the World 2. The World as I See It [1950] 3. My Philosophy of Life [1950] 4. What Hope for Man [1950] 5. Ferment in Asia [1950] 6. Obstacles to World Government [1950] 7. Blurb for C. K. Bliss,
Semantography [1950] 8. We and U.S. Can Lead and Help Asian People [1950] 9. Science Can Help Australia Support More People [1950] 10. Communism, Capitalism, Socialism [1950] a. Bertrand Russell Tells Us What Communism Is b. Private Monopoly Is Bane of Capitalism c. Greater Democracy Is Socialism's Purpose 11. Living in the Atomic Age [1950] a i. Institutions b ii. Individuals 12. Refuting the Archbishop of Melbourne [1950] a. Reply to Dr. Mannix b. Telegram from Perth 13. Why Western Australians Should Be Happy [1950] 14. Land with a Future for Ambitious Youth [1950] 15. My Impressions of Australia [1950] 16. Happy Australia [1950] 17. Hopes for Australia in a Hundred Years [1951]
Part 2: "A Common-Sense Paradise" 18. If We Are to Survive This Dark Time- [1950] 19. What Desires Are Politically Important? [1950] 20. Loquacious Man and His Mind [1950] 21. "To Replace Our Fears with Hope" [1950] 22. "What Can I Do?" [1951] 23. What Does the Single Individual Signify? [1951] 24. The Future of Science [1951] 25. "Living in an Atomic Age": Abstract, Foreword and Related Blurb [1951] a. Provisional Abstract b. Living in an Atomic Age c. Blurb for
New Hopes for a Changing World 26. Christianity and Science: Is There a Gulf? [1951] 27. Prof. Gilbert Murray Honoured [1951] 28. Are Human Beings Necessary? [1951] 29. Competition and Co-operation in Politics and Economics [1951] 30. Denies Categorization as a "Humanist" [1951] 31. New Hopes for a Changing World [1951] 32. The Road to Happiness (i) [1951] 33. Lecture to Young Men and Young Women's Hebrew Association [1951] a. Life without Fear: A View of Poetry b. Questions and Answers 34. Sex Education Is Desirable [1951] 35. My Faith in the Future [1951] 36. A Liberal Decalogue [1951] 37. Prefatory Note to Reprint of "The Elements of Ethics" [1952] 38. The Road to Happiness (ii) [1952] 39. How Fanatics Are Made [1952] 40. Future of the B.B.C. [1952] 41. Leonardo's Day-and Our Own [1952]
Part 3: Autobiography, Humour, Fiction 42. Celebrity [1950] 43. How to Grow Old [1951] 44. How I Write [1951] 45. The Use of Books [1951] 46. Things I Know and Things I Conjecture [1951] a. Things I Know b. Things I Conjecture 47. Bertrand Russell: Biographical Notes [1951] 48. The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X [1951]
Part 4: Avoiding War 49. The Fanatics [1950] 50. Message to Japanese Students [1950] 51. On Nationalism [1950] Two Letters on Preventive War 52. Resignation from the Cambridge University Labour Club [1950] 53. Lord Russell and the Atom Bomb [1951] 54. Dictatorship Breeds Corruption [1951] 55. My Plan for Peace [1951] 56. Why Defend the Free World? [1951] 57. Soviet Humour-Does It Exist? [1951] 58. Fifty Years' Movement towards Equality [1951] 59. Communism and Christian Socialism [1951] 60. European Unity and the Atlantic Alliance [1951] 61. China in the Light of History [1951] 62. The Problem of Germany [1951] 63. Preface to
A World Apart [1951] 64. The Narrow Line [1951] 65. Western Values [1952] 66.
How Near Is War? [1952] 67. One World-Is It Feasible? [1952] 68. Message to Anti-Franco Protest Meeting [1952]
Part 5: Cold War America at Home and Abroad 69. On Mass Hysteria [1951] 70. Every Crisis an Opportunity [1951] 71. Why America Is Losing Her Allies [1951] 72. Lord Russell Sees MacArthur Dismissal as "Act of Courage" [1951] 73. What's Wrong with Anglo-American Relations [1951] 74. Are These Moral Codes Out of Date? [1951] 75. Commentary on "U.S.A. The Permanent Revolution" [1951] 76.
Meet the Press [1951] Three Papers on Political Conformity and Civil Liberties 77. Using Beelzebub to Cast Out Satan [1951] 78. Bertrand Russell and the U.S.A. [1952] 79. Bertrand Russell and the U.S. [1952] 80. Is America in the Grip of Hysteria? [1952]
Appendixes Interviews and Reported Speech Multiple-Signatory and Other Non-Authorial Texts Broadcast Transcripts Original Non-English Texts.
Missing and Unprinted Papers Annotation Textual Notes Bibliographical Index Index of Paper Titles General Index.
About the author
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.
