BERTRAND RUSSELL'S IDEALIST HERITAGE

<p>Bertrand Russell's research on logic is believed alongside Wittgenstein's and<br>Moore's works to have fuelled the linguistic turn that characterized much of twentieth-<br>century philosophy. This process originated in the refutation of British idealism<br>and monism providing a new interpretation of empiricism. But while his debt<br>to traditional British empiricism has been the subject of study (including by Russell<br>himself) and extensively investigated the assumption that the British neo-idealist<br>legacy was merely a polemical target of Russell and Moore's realist pluralism has<br>hindered a proper assessment of its influence - which on the contrary proves to<br>be of theoretical significance. This essay attempts a documentary reconstruction<br>- in part relying on the Bertrand Russell Archives - to better understand Russell's<br>relationship with the thought of F. H. Bradley and indirectly but consequently with<br>the English idealist tradition.<br></p>