For the New Intellectual : The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd.In Return Of The Primitive (originally published in 1971 as The New Left ), Ayn Rand , bestselling novelist and originator of the theory of Objectivism, identified the intellectual roots of this movement. She urged people to repudiate its mindless nihilism and to uphold, instead, a philosophy of reason, individualism, capitalism, and technological progress.Editor Peter Schwartz , in this new, expanded version of The New Left , has reorganized Rand's essays and added some of his own in order to underscore the continuing relevance of her analysis of that period. He examines such current ideologies as feminism, environmentalism and multiculturalism and argues that the same primitive, tribalist, "anti-industrial" mentality which animated the New Left a generation ago is shaping society today.

ayn Rand Here Sets Forth The Moral Principles Of Objectivism, The Philosophy That Holds Man's Life--the Life Proper To A Rational Being--as The Standard Of Moral Values And Regards Altruism As Incompatible With Man's Nature, With The Creative Requirements Of His Survival, And With A Free Society.

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the Problem With Rand Is Easily Detectable By Careful Listeners Of This Production: A Good Essayist With A Flair For The Dramatic Turn Of Phrase, She Wasted Her Obvious Writing Skills In An Effort To Support Outlandish Personal Opinions Cloaked In The Guise Of Logic. An Absolutist Thinker, She Devotes One Whole Essay To An Effort To Persuade Us That We Really Should See Things As Black And White, With No Shades Of Gray. Born In Soviet Russia, Rand So Despised Socialism And Collectivist Thinking That She Leapt To The Furthest Extreme Possible To Become The Champion Of Unbridled Capitalism, The Rights Of The Individual At The Expense Of The Community, And The Diminution Of All Regulation By The State, With The Exception Of A Judicial System And The Control Of Crime. Among The Sadly Dated Ideas She Conveys Are The Attitude That Homosexuals Are Mutant Symptoms Of A Sick Society And The Belief That Anyone With An Interest In Internationalism Is A One World Proponent. To Use One Of Her Own Favored Words, Rand's Political And Social Philosophy Is Critically Muddled. C.m. Herbert's Voice Is Efficient And Cold, Making It A Perfect Choice For The Narration Of This Author's Work. Recommended Only As Documentation Of An Anomaly In The History Of Ideas. Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.l., Columbus, Nc Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

The Late 1960s Saw The First Widespread Expression, In Overt Form, Of The Creed Of Anti-industrialism In America. The Original Edition Of This Book Was Published As A Response - As An Analysis And Refutation Of That Deadly Phenomenon. Among Noted Thinkers Of The Day, Ayn Rand Alone Stood Firm Against The Tide Of Kantian Nihilism And In Support Of Reason, Individualism, And Laissez-faire Capitalism - The Philosophic Ideals That Are The Foundation Of American Achievement And Progress. Three Decades Later, Despite A Seemingly Different Sociopolitical Climate, The Intellectual Essence Of The New Left Endures. Its Continued Influence - Manifested In Such Ideologies As Environmentalism And Multiculturalism - Renders Rand's Observations And Warnings As Relevant, And As Urgently Needed, As When They Were First Written. In This Newly Revised And Expanded Volume, Peter Schwartz Supplements Rand's Work By Shedding New Light On The Dangerous Legacy Of The New Left - A Legacy That Seeks To Return Mankind To The Era Of Primitivism. Ayn Rand ; Edited And With An Introduction And Additional Articles By Peter Schwartz. Comprises, In Addition To Three Articles By Peter Schwartz, The Text Of The Original Ed. Of The New Left, Supplemented By Two Ayn Rand Articles, Racism And Global Balkanization Previously Published Elsewhere. Cf. P. Ix. Includes Bibliographical References. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill.Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism—her groundbreaking philosophy—offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century's leading artists. "Original edition published as The New Left : the anti-industrial revolution by Signet in 1971. "Racism" appeared in ... The virtue of selfishness ... published by Signet in 1964 ..."-- T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references. The late 1960s saw the first widespread expression, in overt form, of the creed of anti-industrialism in America. The original edition of this book was published as a response - as an analysis and refutation of that deadly phenomenon. Among noted thinkers of the day, Ayn Rand alone stood firm against the tide of Kantian nihilism and in support of reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism - the philosophic ideals that are the foundation of American achievement and progress.Three decades later, despite a seemingly different sociopolitical climate, the intellectual essence of the "New Left" endures. Its continued influence - manifested in such ideologies as environmentalism and multiculturalism - renders Rand's observations and warnings as relevant, and as urgently needed, as when they were first written.In this newly revised and expanded volume, Peter Schwartz supplements Rand's work by shedding new light on the dangerous legacy of the New Left - a legacy that seeks to return mankind to the era of primitivism In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd. In Return Of The Primitive (originally published in 1971 as The New Left), Ayn Rand, bestselling novelist and originator of the theory of Objectivism, identified the intellectual roots of this movement. She urged people to repudiate its mindless nihilism and to uphold, instead, a philosophy of reason, individualism, capitalism, and technological progress. Editor Peter Schwartz, in this new, expanded version of The New Left, has reorganized Rand's essays and added some of his own in order to underscore the continuing relevance of her analysis of that period. He examines such current ideologies as feminism, environmentalism and multiculturalism and argues that the same primitive, tribalist, "anti-industrial" mentality which animated the New Left a generation ago is shaping society today.

When it was first published in 1943, The Fountainhead--containing Ayn Rand’s daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism—won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial edition of The Fountainhead, celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Rand’s personal notes on the development of her masterwork. “A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.”--The New York Times

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Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.

Here is Ayn Rand’s first non-fiction work—a challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the “atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion” that they create. As incisive and relevant today as it was sixty years ago, this book presents the essentials of Ayn Rand’s philosophy “for those who wish to acquire an integrated view of existence.” In the title essay, she offers an analysis of Western culture, discusses the causes of its progress, its decline, its present bankruptcy, and points the road to an intellectual renaissance. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy—and ethic of rational self-interest—that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality—"a philosophy for living on Earth"—are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual . "This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas shrugged" is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. "Atlas shrugged" emerged as a premier moral apologia for Capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who have never heard Capitalism defended in other than technical terms." This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemys but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas shrugged" is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. "Atlas shrugged" emerged as a premier moral apologia for Capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who have never heard Capitalism defended in other than technical terms.

the Year 2005 Marks Ayn Rand’s Centennial Year. The Astounding Story Of A Man That Said That He Would Stop The Motor Of The World—and Did. Tremendous In Scope, Breathtaking In Its Suspense, Atlas Shrugged Is Unlike Any Other Book You Have Ever Read. “a Writer Of Great Power. She Has A Subtle And Ingenious Mind And The Capacity Of Writing Brilliantly, Beautifully, Bitterly.”—the New York Times

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the Book's Female Protagonist, Dagny Taggart, Struggles To Manage A Transcontinental Railroad Amid The Pressures And Restrictions Of Massive Bureaucracy. Her Antagonistic Reaction To A Libertarian Group Seeking An End To Government Regulation Is Later Echoed And Modified In Her Encounter With A Utopian Community, Galt's Gulch, Whose Members Regard Self-determination Rather Than Collective Responsibility As The Highest Ideal.

A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy.Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works—Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged—have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her famous novels is her philosophy, a new morality—the ethics of rational self-interest—that offers a robust challenge to altruist-collectivist thought. Known as Objectivism, her divisive philosophy holds human life—the life proper to a rational being—as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature. In this series of essays, Rand asks why man needs morality in the first place, and arrives at an answer that redefines a new code of ethics based on the virtue of selfishness. More Than 1 Million Copies Sold! Introduction by Leonard Peikoff PART ONE NON-CONTRADICTION THE THEME THE CHAIN THE TOP AND THE BOTTOM THE IMMOVABLE MOVERS THE CLIMAX OF THE D'ANCONIAS THE NON-COMMERCIAL THE EXPLOITERS AND THE EXPLOITED THE JOHN GALT LINE THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE WYATT'S TORCH PART TWO EITHER-OR THE MAN WHO BELONGED ON EARTH THE ARISTOCRACY OF PULL WHITE BLACKMAIL THE SANCTION OF THE VICTIM ACCOUNT OVERDRAWN MIRACLE METAL THE MORATORIUM ON BRAINS BY OUR LOVE THE FACE WITHOUT PAIN OR FEAR OR GUILT THE SIGN OF THE DOLLAR PART THREE A IS A ATLANTIS THE UTOPIA OD GREED ANTI-GREED ANTI-LIFE THEIR BROTHER'S KEEPERS THE CONCERTO OF DELIVERANCE "THIS IS JOHN GALT SPEAKING" THE EGOIST THE GENERATOR IN THE NAME OF THE BEST WITHIN US ABOUT THE AUTHOR READER'S GUIDE Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller. Non-contradiction The theme The chain The top and the bottom The immovable movers The climax of the D'Anconias The non-commercial The exploiters and the exploited The John Galt line The sacred and the profane Wyatt's torch Either-or The man who belonged on earth The aristocracy of pull White blackmail The sanction of the victim Account overdrawn Miracle metal The moratorium on brains By our love The face without pain or fear of guilt The sign of the dollar A is A Atlantis The utopia of greed Anti-greed Anti-life Their brothers' keepers The concerto of deliverance "This is John Galt speaking" The egoist The generator In the name of the best within us. This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? The answers to these questions become clear when the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book is uncovered . Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas shrugged" is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, and a premier moral apologia for Capitalism From the Publisher: This is Ayne Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrine of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy-an ethic of rational self-interest that stands in sharp opposition of the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality-"a philosophy for living on earth"--Are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual SUMMARY: This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--"a philosophy for living on Earth"--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual. The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence The Fountainhead is an unprecedented phenomenon in modern literature. Arguably the century's most challenging novel of ideas, The Fountainhead is the story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle with conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with the beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. In his fight for success, he first discovers, then rejects, the seductive power of fame and money, finding that in the end, creative genius must triumph. His battle against mediocrity gives a gripping new dimension to the concept of evil Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds human life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society. Ayn Rand set forth the moral principles of objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life-- the life proper to a rational being-- as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. It was Rand's first major literary success and brought her fame and financial success. More than 6.5 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide. The decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken man's awareness of himself as an heroic being The story of a gifted architect, his struggle against conventional standards, and his violent love affair Peter Keating Ellsworth M. Toohey Gail Wynand Howard Roark