Russell, Idealism, and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy [Paperback]

Analytic philosophy has become the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. This book illuminates that tradition through a historical examination of a crucial period in its formation: the rejection of Idealism by Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the subsequent development of Russell's thought in the period before the First World War.

Introduction
Part I
1. The idealist background,T. H. Green
2. Russell's idealist period,F. H. Bradley
Part II: Platonic Atomism
3. Introduction
4. The underlying metaphysics
5. Russell's Principles of Mathematics
6. `On denoting'
Part III: Logic, fact, and knowledge
7. Introduction
8. The logic of Principia Mathematica
9. Judgement, belief, and knowledge: The emergence of a method
Bibliography
Index

This is a wonderful example of an emerging genre: treatments that are both genuinely philosophic and genuinely historical about recent philosophers. --Philosophical Review

An impressive analysis of Russellian ideas that refreshes our vision of Russell's place in modern philosophy....Not to be missed by anyone who would be informed about Bertrand Russell's role in closing the curtain on nineteenth-century idealism and bringing on stage the new act called analytic philosophy. --International Philosophical Quarterly

Here, at last, is a philosophically sophisticated, historically sensitive, and richly detailed account of the events that led to the overthrow of the sort of idealism that prevailed at Oxford and Cambridge at the turn of the century and its replacement by so-called analytic philosophy....A splendid book. A most welcome achievement and a must for any academic library. --Choice

An excellent book for relatively advanced students who want to understand the currents of thought at work ilãˆ