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For the New Intellectual
- Author
- Ayn Rand
- Narrator
- Anna Fields
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2007
- Run Time
- 7 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
“Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.”—Ayn Rand
One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy of rational self-interest that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. Her unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide following. The fundamentals of this morality are vibrantly set forth here by this spokesman for a new class of intellectual. For the New Intellectual 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.
Critics Review
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“Ayn Rand is destined to rank in history as the outstanding novelist and most profound philosopher of the twentieth century.”
New York Daily Mirror
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“Represents Rand’s first step from fiction to public philosophy.”
James T. Baker, historian
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Details
- Author
- Ayn Rand
- Narrator
- Anna Fields
- Duration
- 7 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2007
- ISBN
- 9781481560559
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
Synopsis
“Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.”—Ayn RandOne of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy of rational self-interest that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. Her unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide following. The fundamentals of this morality are vibrantly set forth here by this spokesman for a new class of intellectual. For the New Intellectual 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.
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