Name: Anthem
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Author: Ayn Rand
ISBN: 9781088017838

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ayn Rand

Illustrated by

Mathew Kane

Publisher

Mathew Kane

Language

English

Pages

102

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN13

9781088017838

Synopsis "Anthem "

Rand's debut published work is a hard one to swallow. At least it was when it was originally published, it is much easier to digest these days. This Kane Classics Edition of the text revises the language of the original to bring it up to 2022 standards and also provides a brand new Forward. Mathew Kane mixes HST-style Gonzo writing with an academic essay flair while examining Rand's work, yet still treating the text with reverence. Kane's ultimate achievement, though, is bringing the work into context with a post-pandemic society. The second dark age of man could be upon us, but Rand and Kane remind us that our children's children will break free of tyranny should our generation fall to the whims of psychotic despots.

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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