Name: The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature(Revised Edn) (Signet Shakespeare)
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Author: Ayn Rand
ISBN: 9780451149169

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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature(Revised Edn) (Signet Shakespeare)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ayn Rand

Publisher

Signet Book

Year

1971

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.4 x 10.8 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.10 kg.

ISBN

0451149165

ISBN13

9780451149169

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature(Revised Edn) (Signet Shakespeare) "

In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important achievements of our time.

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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