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The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Brand: Ayn Rand
Collection: Ayn Rand Collection
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Product Code:: 1115-01
ISBN: 978-619-152-222-4
SKU: 14.0044

Year: 13-05-2013
Translation: from English: Iren Boikikeva, Ognyan Daskarev
Pages: 232
Size: 140/215 мм
Weight: 0.3 kg
Collection: Колекция "Айн Ранд"
Cover Type: Paperback
Genre: Essays, Political Science & Politics, State & Governance, Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Prose, Ayn Rand, Philosophical Researches

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 book is Ayn Rand's call to American youth to reject the tribal, conventional irrationality of the New Left and to grasp the need of a philosophical revolution founded on the supremacy of reason, with individualism, self-interest, science, technology, and progress as its consequences. There is nothing new about the New Left; it is the last gasp of an outworn philosophy.

This is the view presented by Ayn Rand in a critical analysis of such superior perceptiveness and originality that it ranks as a landmark in the history of contemporary ideas. The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution is a brilliant addition to the works of one of America's most influential thinkers.