Full name: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

Author: Ayn Rand Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Non Fiction, Politics, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780452010468

Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand's life, are gathered in book form for the first time. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff's epilogue, "My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir," which answers the question "What was Ayn Rand really like?" Important reading for all thinking individuals, Rand's later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise. Similar books: Philosophy by Ayn Rand Objectivism by Leonard Peikoff For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche On Seeing and Noticing by Alain de Botton A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell The Perfect Crime by Jean Baudrillard The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton Ayn Rand by Chris Matthew Sciabarra The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten by Julian Baggini Philosophy by Edward Craig The Duck That Won the Lottery by Julian Baggini Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell The Postmodern Condition by Jean-Francois Lyotard Rationalism in Politics by Michael Oakeshott The Silence of Animals by John Gray