ABSTRACT
The Collected Papers 28 signals reinvigoration of Russell the public campaigner. The title of the volume is taken from one of his most famous and eloquent short essays and probably the best known of his many broadcasts for the BBC. Man's Peril, 1954-55 not only captures the essence of Russell's thinking about nuclear weapons and the Cold War in the mid-1950s, its extraordinary impact served to jolt him into political protest once again. The activism of which we glimpse the initial stirrings in this volume continued in various guises more or less without interruption until his death. In the writings assembled in this volume, however, he is looking towards the non-aligned states and world scientific opinion as possible brokers of détente. (The volume includes Russell's famous public statement, the declaration of scientists known as 'The Russell Einstein Manifesto'.) Although Russell was becoming increasingly immersed in work for peace, this was not to the exclusion of all other interests. For example, here we find also him reminiscing about his peace campaigning during the First World War, defending 'History as an Art', and attacking the obscurantism of obscenity legislation and the opponents of birth control.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
part I|90 pages
Implications of the Hydrogen Bomb
chapter 1|5 pages
The Danger to Mankind [1954]
chapter 2|6 pages
Atomic Energy and the Future of the World [1954]
chapter 3|2 pages
Atomic Weapons [1954]
chapter 4|3 pages
Scientific Warfare [1954]
chapter 4a|1 pages
T.V.—Tuesday, 13 April
chapter 4b|3 pages
The Hydrogen Bomb
chapter 5|10 pages
Where Do We Go from Here? [1954]
chapter 6|5 pages
The Hydrogen Bomb and World Government [1954]
chapter 7|6 pages
My Plan for the Most Hopeful Road to Peace [1954]
chapter 8|5 pages
Reflections on the Re-Awakening East [1954]
chapter 9|5 pages
The Morality of “Hydrogen” Politics [1954]
chapter 10|8 pages
The Road to World Government [1954]
chapter 11|1 pages
Comment on Harrison Brown’s Challenge of Man’s Future [1954]
chapter 12|2 pages
Two Papers on India [1954]
chapter 12a|2 pages
What India Can Do For Mankind
chapter 12b|3 pages
What India Can Do For the World
chapter 13|6 pages
1948 Russell vs. 1954 Russell [1954]
chapter 14|6 pages
What Neutrals Can Do to Save the World [1954]
chapter 15|1 pages
Communism and War [1954]
chapter 16|8 pages
Man’s Peril [1954]
part II|52 pages
Autobiographical, Biographical, Historical and Commendatory Writings
chapter 17|2 pages
Sir Stanley Unwin [1954]
chapter 18|1 pages
Tribute to Einstein [1954]
chapter 19|5 pages
Trotsky in the Ascendant [1954]
chapter 20|1 pages
Bernard Shaw [1954]
chapter 21|3 pages
How I Write [1954]
chapter 22|16 pages
History as an Art [1954]
chapter 23|3 pages
Men of Genius [1954]
chapter 24|1 pages
On Reading His Own Obituary [1955]
chapter 25|3 pages
Three Autobiographical Broadcasts [1955]
chapter 25a|4 pages
Experiences of a Pacifist in the First World War
chapter 25b|4 pages
From Logic to Politics
chapter 25c|4 pages
Hopes: Realized and Disappointed
chapter 26|3 pages
Soviet Russia in Historical Perspective [1955]
chapter 27|1 pages
Two Literary Blurbs [1954–55]
chapter 27a|1 pages
Joan Henry, Yield to the Night [1954]
chapter 27b|1 pages
20Otto Larsen, Nightmare of the Innocents [1955]
part III|96 pages
Liberty, Morality, Religion and Other Prognoses and Prescriptions
chapter 28|4 pages
Have Liberal Ideals a Future? [1954]
chapter 29|7 pages
Suspicion [1954]
chapter 30|4 pages
The Next Twenty-five Years in Britain [1954]
chapter 31|1 pages
Homosexuality as a Crime [1954]
chapter 32|1 pages
Secrets of Happiness [1954]
chapter 32a|5 pages
You and Your Family
chapter 32b|4 pages
You and Your Work
chapter 32c|5 pages
You and Your Leisure
chapter 32d|4 pages
You and the State
chapter 33|9 pages
Can the Censor Promote Virtue? [1954]
chapter 34|4 pages
Was the Human Race Happier a Few Centuries Ago Than Now? [1954]
chapter 35|5 pages
Birth Control and World Problems [1954]
chapter 36|1 pages
The World in 2000 a.d. [1954–55]
chapter 36a|4 pages
Where Will Britain Stand in 2000 a.d.? [1955]
chapter 36b|5 pages
20 Men and Women in 2000 a.d. [1954]
chapter 36c|4 pages
Education in 2000 a.d. [1955]
chapter 36d|5 pages
The State in 2000 a.d. [1955]
chapter 37|9 pages
Can Religon Cure Our Troubles? [1955]
chapter 38|1 pages
Message to the Indian Rationalist Association [1955]
chapter 39|1 pages
Message to the Conference on Cultural Freedom in Asia [1955]
chapter 40|3 pages
Religion and Morality [1955]
chapter 40a|3 pages
Christianity and Morals
chapter 40b|10 pages
Religion and the Training of the Young
part IV|160 pages
Roads to Peace