About this title: "The Ideas of Ayn Rand" tells of Ayn Rand (1905-1982), who is best-known for her blockbuster novels, "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged". In the 1960s her "Objectivist" ideas, featuring laissez-faire capitalism, atheism, "the virtue of selfishness", and aesthetic romanticism, were promoted in an organized movement, which split apart following Rand's falling-out with protege Nathaniel Branden. Despite this debacle, she continues to attract readers and to exert a major, if largely subterranean, influence on thinking and policy. Recent works on Rand have focussed on the details of her ...
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Edition: First edition. 1st printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780812691573ISBN:0812691571
Description: Good in very good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Binding tight and square. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 191 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Open Court
Date Published: 1998-12-31
ISBN-13:9780812691580ISBN:081269158X
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Open Court, La Salle, IL
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780812691580ISBN:081269158X
Description: Trade Size 191 Pages. USED AS NEW fine/no dj issued, clean bright covers, interior clean and solid and bright, looks new and unread. read more
Edition: Reprint. Third Printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780812691580ISBN:081269158X
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 191 p. Index, BibliographyAudience: General/trade. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive survey of Rand's wide-ranging contributions: her literary techniques; her espousal and then rejetion of a Nietzschean outlook; her contradictory attitude to feminism; her forays into ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics; the development of her political creed; her influence on-and hostility to-both conservatism and ... read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Description: Very Good. 1991 Paperback. Orders usually ship on or before next business day. May have highlighting. We send best copy available. read more
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