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Philosophy: Who Needs It

Brand: Ayn Rand
Collection: Ayn Rand Collection
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Product Code:: 658-01
ISBN: 978-954-321-798-4
SKU: 21.0008

Year: 18-02-2011
Translation: From English: Milena Popova
Pages: 288
Size: 140/215 мм
Weight: 0.362 kg
Collection: Колекция "Айн Ранд"
Cover Type: Paperback
Genre: Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Researches, Philosophical Prose, Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, (1905–1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After…

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This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.