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What I Believe
Paperback
Main Details
| Title |
What I Believe
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Bertrand Russell
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Foreword by Alan Ryan
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| Series | Routledge Classics |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback | | Pages:72 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism
Philosophy of religion |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780415325097
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| Classifications | Dewey:211.4 |
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| Audience | | General | | Professional & Vocational | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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| Edition |
2nd Revised edition
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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| Imprint |
Routledge
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| Publication Date |
2 February 2004 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell's famed atheism. It is also one of the most notorious. Used as evidence in a 1940 court case in which Russell was declared unfit to teach college-level philosophy, What I Believe was to become one of his most defining works. The ideas contained within were and are controversial, contentious and - to the religious - downright blasphemous. A remarkable work, it remains the best concise introduction to Russell's thought.
Reviews'Bertrand Russell wrote the best English prose of any twentieth-century philosopher.' - Anthony Howard, The Times 'Bertrand Russell attributed religion to a primitive terror of the unknown and the desire for a kindly older brother to stand alongside us.' - The Age
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