Name: anthem
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Author: Ayn Rand
ISBN: 9780870041242

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ayn Rand

Publisher

Caxton Press

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.2 x 15.0 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN

087004124X

ISBN13

9780870041242

Synopsis "anthem"

"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"A new generation has discovered that Rand's "Anthem" is more socially relevant today than it was when it was written seventy-five years ago. "Anthem" is the classic story about the consequences of social collectivism and the importance of individualism. "Anthem" has been described as "one of the most important prose poems ever written."

Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand (St. Petersburg, 1905; New York, 1982) was a writer and philosopher born in Russia and naturalized American. After publishing her first two novels, We the Living (1936) and Anthem (1938), she achieved success with The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), her magnum opus. In these works, Rand developed her philosophy, known as Objectivism, in which she concretizes her original vision of man as «a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute».

Later, she would establish the theoretical foundations of this philosophy in her non-fiction books: Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979), The Virtue of Selfishness (1964), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966), and The Romantic Manifesto (1969).

Her legacy continues to be enormously influential among conservatives and libertarians, both in the United States and around the world, because it directly confronts the acquired cultural inertia, challenging the axis «mysticism-altruism-collectivism» and replacing it with a philosophy based on: «reason-selfishness-capitalism».

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