Mysticism and Logic.

RUSSELL, Bertrand.

Item Number: 138950

New York: W.W. Norton & Compan Inc, 1929.

First edition of this classic collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the front free endpaper. From the library of Allan Knight Chalmers with his signature to the front free endpaper. Allan Knight Chalmers was a social justice activist who mentored Martin Luther King Jr. during King’s time at Boston University. Chalmers, who was a minister, engaged in numerous civil rights activities and played a major role in key civil rights organizations. This collection contains material on the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s as well as the crucial years of the black freedom movement that preceded it. In very good condition.

Mysticism and Logic are ten brilliant essays by a Nobel Prize-winning philosopher challenge romantic mysticism and promote a scientific view of society and nature. Russell explains his theory of logical atomism in these witty, cogent writings, which include popular treatments of religious and educational issues as well as more technical examinations of problems of logic.