Supplement to Bertrand Russell
Sound Clips of Bertrand Russell Speaking
The following two sound clips are from Bertrand Russell's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. They appear here courtesy of the United Nations Unesco Archives (tape #823, 18.12.50) and the library of the Bertrand Russell Society.
Bertrand Russell on Desire
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Bertrand Russell on Political Theory
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The Nobel Prize website includes a video (in Swedish) of the 1950 Nobel Prize ceremony.
It also includes a text version of the presentation speech made by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy and a text version of Russell's acceptance speech, under the title “What Desires Are Politically Important?”
As Österling remarks in his presentation speech delivered in the midst of the Cold War, in making its award the Academy chose to honour Russell as a brilliant defender of “rationality and humanity” and as a fearless champion of “free speech and free thought in the West.”
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