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Synopsis:
This brilliantly
illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of
Bertrand Russell's life. Raised by his paternal grandparents, young Russell
was never told the whereabouts of his parents.
Driven by a desire
for knowledge of his own history, he attempted to force the world to yield to
his yearnings: for truth, clarity and resolve. As he grew older, and
increasingly sophisticated as a philosopher and mathematician, Russell strove
to create an objective language with which to describe the world - one free of
the biases and slippages of the written word. At the same time, he began
courting his first wife, teasing her with riddles and leaning on her during
the darker days, when his quest was bogged down by paradoxes, frustrations
and the ghosts of his family's secrets. Ultimately, he found considerable
success - but his career was stalled when he was outmatched by an
intellectual rival: his young, strident, brilliantly original student, Ludwig
Wittgenstein.
An insightful and
complexly layered narrative, Logicomix reveals both Russell's inner struggle
and the quest for the foundations of logic. Narration by an older, wiser
Russell, as well as asides from the author himself, make sense of the story's
heady and powerful ideas. At its heart, Logicomix is a story about the
conflict between pure reason and the persistent flaws of reality, a narrative
populated by great and august thinkers, young lovers, ghosts and insanity.
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
USED Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth - Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou
RM 45.00
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All,
English Fiction,
Graphic Novel,
Used Fiction
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