For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition) [Paperback]

Here is Ayn Rand’s first non-fiction work—a 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.

As incisive and relevant today as it was sixty years ago, this book presents the essentials of Ayn Rand’s philosophy “for those who wish to acquire an integrated view of existence.” In the title essay, she offers an analysis of Western culture, discusses the causes of its progress, its decline, its present bankruptcy, and points the road to an intellectual renaissance.

One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy—and ethic of rational self-interest—that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality— a philosophy for living on Earth —are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.For the New Intellectual - Ayn Rand Preface
For the New Intellectual
We the Living
Anthem
The Fountainhead
The Nature of the Second-Hander
The Soul of a Collectivist
The Soul of an Individualist
Atlas Shrugged
The Meaning of Money
The Martyrdom of the Industrialists
The Moral Meaning of Capitalism
The Meaning of Sex
From Each According to His Ability, to Each According to His Need
The Forgotten Man of Socialized Medicine
The Nature of an Artist
This Is John Galt Speaking Born February 2, 1905,Ayn Randpublished her first novel,We the Living, in 1936.Anthemfollowed in 1938. It was with the publication ofThe Fountainhead(1943) andAtlas Shrugged(1957) that she achieved her spectacular success. Rand’s unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide audience. The fundamentals of her phill“G