The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting in the late 1930s when Europe was being torn apart by extremist ideologies and the world was on the brink of war, Russell set out to found a 'new science' to make sense of the traumatic events of the day and explain those that would follow.
The result was Power, a remarkable book that Russell regarded as one of the most important of his long career. Countering the totalitarian desire to dominate, Russell shows how political enlightenment and human understanding can lead to peace - his book is a passionate call for independence of mind and a celebration of the instinctive joy of human life.
Über den Autor Bertrand Russell
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Sir Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, dritter Herzog von Bedford, gehört zu den führenden Philosophen unseres Jahrhunderts. Seine moralphilosophischen und politischen Arbeiten sind weit verbreitet, in den erkenntnistheoretischen Schriften suchte er das Weltbild der unmittelbaren Erfahrung mit dem der Physik zu vereinen. Sein Hauptwerk, zusammen mit Alfred N. Whitehead, die 'Principia Mathematica' (1910-1913), bildet noch heute die Grundlage der mathematischen Logik. Bertrand Russell erhielt 1950 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.
