Name: The Fountainhead
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Author: Ayn Rand
ISBN: 9780451191151

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Physical Book

Author

Ayn Rand

Epilogue by

Leonard Peikoff

Publisher

Signet Book

Year

1996

Language

English

Pages

720

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.5 x 10.7 x 4.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0451191153

ISBN13

9780451191151

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Synopsis "The Fountainhead "

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim. This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand's provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction--that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress... "A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall."--The New York Times

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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Felipe Bravo Wednesday, April 03, 2013
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Compré The Fountainhed (El manantial) para aprender de la filosofia de Ayn Rand, el objetivismo. Muy buen libro que subio mucho mi autoestima y me enseño a pensar por mi mismo, defender mis propositos, motivaciones y pensamiento. El manantial supera a cualquier libro de autoayuda. Lo recomiendo al 100%.
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Anonymous User Sunday, August 05, 2018
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El producto es excelente. El plazo de entrega un poco largo.
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Pedro Valenzuela Thursday, April 07, 2022
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aún no he leído el libro pero llegó muy rápido y en buenas condiciones
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