Cambridge Apostles

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The Cambridge Apostles was an elite, secretive intellectual society at the University of Cambridge whose members included prominent philosophers, writers, and politicians such as Bertrand Russell.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf intellectual society
secret society
student society
alsoKnownAs Cambridge Conversazione Society
The Apostles
associatedMovement Bloomsbury Group
basedIn University of Cambridge
country United Kingdom
fieldOfWork aesthetics
economics
ethics
history
literature
philosophy
politics
foundedIn 1820
hasActivity literary discussion
philosophical discussion
political discussion
presentation of papers
weekly meetings
hasCharacteristic elite
intellectual
male-only (historically)
secretive
hasReputation controversial due to secrecy
highly influential in Cambridge intellectual life
influenced 20th-century British philosophy
British politics
analytic philosophy
modernist literature
languageOfCommunication English
locatedIn Cambridge
England
United Kingdom
membershipPolicy invitation-only
small membership
notableMember Alfred North Whitehead
Bertrand Russell
E. M. Forster
G. E. Moore
G. H. Hardy
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
John Maynard Keynes
Leonard Woolf
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lytton Strachey
Roger Fry
Rupert Brooke
tradition circulation of private papers
use of nicknames for members

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