For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451078070 (0451078071)
Publish date: December 1st 1963
Publisher: Signet
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Modern,
Western
I usually don't review comic books but I'll make an exception for this book. There is no grey in her world, and this book read like a comic book. The real world is such that you can't have perfect liberty with perfect equality (moreover she doesn't care about anything but the individual so inequali...
I rather sympathize (if not really agree with) a LibraryThing reviewer who gave this a half star and complained this was a cut and paste job. That is true of three-quarters of this book, which consists of excerpts from Rand's novels. Thus my relatively low rating. Her novels certainly should be read...
Part III of multi-part review series.A greatest hits: introductory essay and selections from the four novels. Will reserve commentary on the novels for those reviews. Introductory essay develops two sets of binaries: Attila/Witch Doctor and Producer/Parasite. The latter is crass unexamined prod...