Name: anthem
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Author: Ayn Rand
ISBN: 9781451578157

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ayn Rand

Publisher

Createspace

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

102

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 13.2 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

1451578156

ISBN13

9781451578157

Synopsis "anthem"

The author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead brings you a futuristic vision of an over-regulated society that depicts a dark picture for socialistic thinking and collectivism. Once technological advancement is handed over to the discretion of the government and individual ideas are all but eliminated, Equality 7-2521 realizes the only way he can survive the oppression is to plan his escape and venture into the Uncharted Forest to begin anew.

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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