{"product_id":"logicomix-apostolos-doxiadis-9780747597209","title":"Logicomix","description":"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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51515162329376,"sku":"9780747597209","price":14.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780747597209.jpg?v=1777094876","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/logicomix-apostolos-doxiadis-9780747597209","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}