The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition (Signet Shakespeare)

In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important achievements of our time. Title Page......Page 6 Copyright Page......Page 7 Introduction......Page 9 1. - The Psycho-Epistemology of Art......Page 13 2. - Philosophy and Sense of Life......Page 21 3. - Art and Sense of Life......Page 28 4. - Art and Cognition......Page 36 5. - Basic Principles of Literature......Page 64 6. - What Is Romanticism?......Page 80 7. - The Esthetic Vacuum of Our Age......Page 99 8. - Bootleg Romanticism......Page 104 9. - Art and Moral Treason......Page 114 10. - Introduction to Ninety-Three......Page 123 11. - The Goal of My Writing......Page 130 12. - The Simplest Thing in the World......Page 139 Index......Page 150 "In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important achievements of our time." --Publisher's description THE position of art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities. Underlying this treatise is the objectivist philosophy which has placed Ayn Rand in the mainstream of American thought.