Top Offers

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought - from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage.
Ayn Rand Lexicon brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism. Begun under Rand's supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism - the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels The Fountainhead, We the Living, and Atlas Shrugged.
Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z by Ayn Rand
ISBN: 0452010519

Return of the Primitive

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, best-selling novelist and originator of the theory of Objectivism, identified the intellectual roots of this movement. Ayn Rand 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.
Peter Schwartz examines such current ideologies as 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.
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand
ISBN: 0452011841