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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rand, Ayn. Return of the primitive. New York : Meridian, c1999 (OCoLC)756425131 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ayn Rand; Peter Schwartz |
| ISBN: | 0452011841 9780452011847 |
| OCLC Number: | 39281836 |
| Notes: | Comprises, in addition to three articles by Peter Schwartz, the text of the original ed. of The New Left, supplemented by two Ayn Rand articles, "Racism" and "Global Balkanization" previously published elsewhere. Cf. p. ix. |
| Description: | x, 290 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Selections. |
| Responsibility: | Ayn Rand ; edited and with an introduction and additional articles by Peter Schwartz. |
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Abstract:
The late 1960s saw the first widespread expression, in overt form, of the creed of anti-industrialism in America. The original edition of this book was published as a response - as an analysis and refutation of that deadly phenomenon. Among noted thinkers of the day, Ayn Rand alone stood firm against the tide of Kantian nihilism and in support of reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism - the philosophic ideals that are the foundation of American achievement and progress. Three decades later, despite a seemingly different sociopolitical climate, the intellectual essence of the "New Left" endures. Its continued influence - manifested in such ideologies as environmentalism and multiculturalism - renders Rand's observations and warnings as relevant, and as urgently needed, as when they were first written. In this newly revised and expanded volume, Peter Schwartz supplements Rand's work by shedding new light on the dangerous legacy of the New Left - a legacy that seeks to return mankind to the era of primitivism.
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