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The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation (Bertrand Russell Paperbacks) Paperback – October 12, 1996

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ISBN-13: 978-0415131339 ISBN-10: 0415131332 Edition: 2nd

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Bertrand Russell's many books include The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Logic and Knowledge, and Sceptical Essays, all available from Routledge.
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  • Series: Bertrand Russell Paperbacks
  • Paperback: 258 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (October 12, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0415131332
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415131339
  • Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.2 x 8 inches
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful By Rerevisionist on November 27, 2011
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Bertrand Russell and Dora Russell 1923 - The Prospects of Industrial Civilization

Not a popular book by Russell. A second edition was published in 1959, with a preface attributed to Dora Russell (they married in 1921, for a while). It's not clear what differences were made from the first edition - the preface is worthless trivia and amusingly comments on the 'communist blaock' and 'spirit of free enterprise' despite the fact that book shows that even in 1918 there were huge American trusts. I'm pretty sure I once read the first edition - I remember a phrase something like 'men desire sexual intercourse with all women', which is missing from this version. Unfortunately, Russell was not averse to a bit of editing of his own past - his book 'Which Way To Peace?' published just before 1939 was never reprinted. Dora Black, 'daughter of a senior civil servant', studied Greek, Latin and German, before going to Cambridge where she got a first in Modern Languages. The details seem hard to find - but anyway after her degree she researched in France, so one assumes French was one of her languages. It's not clear to me whether she knew Russian. One has to assume she had something like zero awareness of science, technology, and industry, and I'll assume in what follows that Russell wrote most of the book, despite the claims that it was a joint effort. It seems she loved the Bolsheviks, but, with almost insane hypocrisy, disliked the 'machine age'.

First, the title and presentation. It's necessary to spend a little time on these. The title in fact is misleading. The book is in two parts, roughly speaking (1) a retrospective view of industrialism so far, and (2) a theoretical look at ethics and what a good society should be. There's a certain amount on prospects, but not much.
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