Why I Am Not a Christian (collection)

From the author of famous works “The Problems of Philosophy,” “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Boundaries,” and “An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity.”

Nobel Prize laureate in Literature Bertrand Russell is one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.

This edition includes Russell’s boldest writings about faith, morality, and sexual education.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) — Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, mathematician, public figure, and one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, author of such famous works as “The Problems of Philosophy,” “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Boundaries,” “An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity,” “Marriage and Morality,” and “A History of Western Philosophy.”

In this collection, the most daring of his writings on faith, morality, and sexual education are brought together—writings that earned him fame as one of the greatest heretics in the sphere of morals and religion. In these lectures and essays, he demonstrated the same insight, sharp wit, and eloquence characteristic of the brilliant prose of his other works. Thanks to these qualities, the essays included in this book may represent the most original and most elegant exposition of the position of a free-thinking person since the times of Hume and Voltaire.