For the New Intellectual; the Philosophy of Ayn Rand Summary
Ayn Rand

For the New Intellectual; the Philosophy of Ayn Rand Summary

Ayn Rand, whose real name was Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (1905-1982) was one of the 20th century's great American novelist. Originally, Russian, she not only wrote novels, but plays and movies as well. She was widely seen as an important social philosopher. Rand has become famous from her novel sales but particularly due to the ideas that she placed at the core, ideas she tied together in a system she called Objectivism...

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