A Comprehensive And Eye-opening Portrait Of One Of The Most Significant And Improbable Figures Of The Twentieth Century--from Her Childhood In Russia During The Bolshevik Revolution To Her Years As A Screenwriter In Hollywood, The Publication Of Her Blockbuster Novels, And The Rise And Fall Of The Cult That Formed Around Her In The 1950s And 1960s. Before The Revolution : 1905-1917 -- Looters : 1917-1925 -- Freedom To Think : 1926-1934 -- We Are Not Like Our Brothers : 1934-1938 -- The Fountainhead : 1936-1941 -- The Soul Of An Individualist : 1939-1942 -- Money : 1943 -- Fame : 1943-1946 -- The Top And The Bottom : 1946-1949 -- The Means And The End : 1950-1953 -- The Immovable Mover : 1953-1957 -- Atlas Shrugged : 1957 -- The Public Philosopher : 1958-1963 -- Account Overdrawn : 1962-1967 -- Either/or (the Break) : 1967-1968 -- In The Name Of The Best Within Us : 1969-1982. Anne C. Heller. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [529]-540) And Index.

Ayn Rand made a profound impact as both a philosopher who founded a school of social thought, Objectivism, and as a novelist of penetrating insight and vision. Her works are founded on heroic ideals, demonstrating the maxim that, “man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.” The photos and illustrations in this volume have been hand-selected from the Ayn Rand Archives, and most have never been published. They include personal mementos of a Petersburg childhood, her family and their home on Nevsky Prospect; photos from her early years in America; personal papers, including her list of the twelve publishers who passed on The Fountainhead; original newspaper articles, film posters, notes, drawings, and much more. In a recent poll conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club, Rand's Atlas Shrugged was voted the novel most influential to American readers. This latest volume of the acclaimed Overlook Illustrated Lives series gives her legions of fans an unprecedented chance to better understand the author they adore.

A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage. THE AYN RAND LEXICON brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism. Begun under Rand's supervision, this unique volume is an invaluable guide to her philosophy or reason, self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism--the philosophy so brilliantly dramatized in her novels THE FOUNTAINHEAD, WE THE LIVING, and ATLAS SHRUGGED.

ayn Rand Here Sets Forth The Moral Principles Of Objectivism, The Philosophy That Holds Man's Life--the Life Proper To A Rational Being--as The Standard Of Moral Values And Regards Altruism As Incompatible With Man's Nature, With The Creative Requirements Of His Survival, And With A Free Society. library Journal the Problem With Rand Is Easily Detectable By Careful Listeners Of This Production: A Good Essayist With A Flair For The Dramatic Turn Of Phrase, She Wasted Her Obvious Writing Skills In An Effort To Support Outlandish Personal Opinions Cloaked In The Guise Of Logic. An Absolutist Thinker, She Devotes One Whole Essay To An Effort To Persuade Us That We Really Should See Things As Black And White, With No Shades Of Gray. Born In Soviet Russia, Rand So Despised Socialism And Collectivist Thinking That She Leapt To The Furthest Extreme Possible To Become The Champion Of Unbridled Capitalism, The Rights Of The Individual At The Expense Of The Community, And The Diminution Of All Regulation By The State, With The Exception Of A Judicial System And The Control Of Crime. Among The Sadly Dated Ideas She Conveys Are The Attitude That Homosexuals Are Mutant Symptoms Of A Sick Society And The Belief That Anyone With An Interest In Internationalism Is A One World Proponent. To Use One Of Her Own Favored Words, Rand's Political And Social Philosophy Is Critically Muddled. C.m. Herbert's Voice Is Efficient And Cold, Making It A Perfect Choice For The Narration Of This Author's Work. Recommended Only As Documentation Of An Anomaly In The History Of Ideas. Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.l., Columbus, Nc Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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.

Today Man's Mind Is Under Attack By All The Leading Schools Of Philosophy. We Are Told That We Cannot Trust Our Senses, That Logic Is Arbitrary, That Concepts Have No Basis In Reality. Ayn Rand Opposes That Torrent Of Nihilism, And She Provides The Alternative In This Eloquent Presentation Of The Essential Nature--and Power--of Man's Conceptual Faculty. She Offers A Startlingly Original Solution To The Problem That Brought About The Collapse Of Modern Philosophy: The Problem Of Universals. This Brilliantly Argued, Superbly Written Work, Together With An Essay By Philosophy Professor Leonard Peikoff, Is Vital Reading For All Those Who Seek To Discover That Human Beings Can And Should Live By The Guidance Of Reason.--from Publisher Description. Cognition And Measurement -- Concept-formation -- Abstraction From Abstractions -- Concepts Of Consciousness -- Definitions -- Axiomatic Concepts -- The Cognitive Role Of Concepts -- Consciousness And Identity -- Summary: The Analytic-synthetic Dichotomy / Y Leonard Peikoff -- Appendix: Excerpts From The Epistemology Workshops. Ayn Rand ; With An Additonal Essay By Leonard Peikoff ; Edited By Harry Binswanger And Leonard Peikoff. A Meridian Book. Includes Index.