# Authority and the Individual

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- Book: [Authority and the Individual](https://www.bookquiver.com/bertrand-russell/authority-and-the-individual) ([Authority and the Individual.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bertrand-russell/authority-and-the-individual.md))
- Authors: [Bertrand Russell](https://www.bookquiver.com/bertrand-russell)
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN: 978-11-3815-980-8
- Pages: 104
- Published: 2017-02-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

First published in 1985. In the first of the BBC''s famous Reith Lectures, Russell tackles what is still one of the most hotly debated issues of the twentieth century: the conflict between law, order and authority and the rights of each individual man and woman.