Ayn Rand: The Voice of Reason | Taschenbuch

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Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand's life, are gathered in book form for the first time. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff's epilogue, "My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir," which answers the question "What was Ayn Rand really like?" Important reading for all thinking individuals, Rand's later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.

Über den Autor

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and philosopher best known for her fiction of individualism, reason, ambition, and opposition to collectivism. Born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg in 1905, she experienced the Russian Revolution and the rise of Soviet power before emigrating to the United States in 1926. Her early life under revolutionary collectivism shaped much of her later writing, especially her interest in freedom, selfhood, productive achievement, and the moral status of the [...]'s major works include We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. Through these books and her later nonfiction, she developed the philosophy she called Objectivism, centred on reason, individual rights, rational self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism. Whether admired or disputed, Rand remains one of the most widely read and commercially influential writers of twentieth-century political and philosophical fiction, with continuing relevance for readers of dystopian literature, libertarian thought, capitalism, individualism, political philosophy, and novels of ideas.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Voice of Reason - Essays in Objectivist Thought by Ayn Rand Edited and with Additional Essays by Leonard Peikoff

Introductionby Leonard Peikoff
Part One: Philosophy
1. Introducing Objectivism
2. Review of Aristotle by John Herman Randall, Jr.
3. To Young Scientists
4. Who Is the Final Authority in Ethics?
5. The Psychology of Psychologizing
6. Altruism as Appeasement
7. The Question of Scholarships
8. Of Living Death
9. Religion vs. America - by Leonard Peikoff
Part Two: Culture
10. The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age
11. Our Cultural Value-Deprivation
12. Global Balkanization
13. How to Read (and Not to Write)
14. The Lessons of Vietnam
15. The Sanction of the Victims
16. Through Your Most Grievous Fault
17. Apollo 11
18. Epitaph for a Culture
19. Assault from the Ivory Tower: The Professors' War Against America - by Leonard Peikoff
20. The American School: Why Johnny Can't Think - by Leonard Peikoff
Part Three: Politics
21. Representation Without Authorization
22. To Dream the Noncommercial Dream
23. Tax Credits for Education
24. Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason
25. The Pull Peddlers
26. About a Woman President
27. The Inverted Moral Priorities
28. Hunger and Freedom
29. How Not to Fight Against Socialized Medicine
30. Medicine: The Death of a Profession - by Leonard Peikoff
31. Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty - by Peter Schwartz
Epilogue: My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir - by Leonard Peikoff

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	1990
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780452010468
ISBN-10:	0452010462
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Rand, Ayn
Redaktion:	Peikoff, Leonard
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 135 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Ayn Rand
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.06.1990
Gewicht:	0,473 kg