Russell Journal

Members of the Bertrand Russell Society get online access to all issues of Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies. Members also get print issues mailed to them during the period of their membership in good standing in the Society. You can browse back issues online at the Russell website.

The scholarly journal Russell, founded in 1971 under the editorship of Kenneth Blackwell, is now edited by Andrew Bone and Gülberk Koc Maclean. Its editorial board is listed here. A synopsis of its aims and institutional support is given below:

Russell is devoted to the study of all aspects of Bertrand Russell’s thought as well as his life, times and influence. In addition to original research and reviews of new books, Russell publishes new texts and textual studies, discussions, bibliographies, indexes, and archival lists. Scholarly articles submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed twice anonymously. Russell is not the organ of any association or institution.

“There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal, as human beings, to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”

– Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 9 July 1955