For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand
For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand
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For the New Intellectual

Author: Ayn Rand

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

“Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.”—Ayn RandOne of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy of rational self-interest that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. Her unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide following. The fundamentals of this morality are vibrantly set forth here by this spokesman for a new class of intellectual. For the New Intellectual is Ayn Rand’s challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the “atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion” that they create.

About Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was born in Russia, graduated from the University of Leningrad, and came to the United States in 1926. She published her first novel in 1936. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943, she achieved a spectacular and enduring success, and her unique philosophy, Objectivism, gained a worldwide following.

About Anna Fields

Anna Fields (1965–2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher on September 25, 2012

"I swear - by my life and my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." There is a quality in Ayn Rand's writing that I find supremely attractive: the unflinching, unapologetic assertion of the sanctity of the individual human mind and tha......more

Goodreads review by Samson on September 12, 2008

A great explication of Ayn's philosophy, and the primary reason I think she's an idiot.......more

Goodreads review by Sleepless on May 27, 2017

I read this book during guard duty in the army. It was a perfect fit. A few years ago, I got into a discussion with a bookstore keeper about Marxism and capitalism. He pretty much told me I have to read Ayn Rand and so here we are. As I've grown up, my opinions have mellowed out. I do think Marxism......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on December 18, 2020

Good philosophy is usually recognizable, and awakens a desire to understand it more deeply. Bad philosophy inevitably has something fishy about it, but it is not often easy to articulate where the smell is coming from. And then who really wants to get closer? Often, I suppose, the badness has to do......more

Goodreads review by Chris on December 21, 2021

I have tried REALLY hard to understand and respect the philosophy of Ayn Rand, but it’s difficult. I really don’t like throwing this world around, but at certain points while reading her books, I think, “Is she a sociopath?”. If I’m being generous, Ayn Rand makes good arguments that being a pure alt......more

Quotes

“Ayn Rand is destined to rank in history as the outstanding novelist and most profound philosopher of the twentieth century.” New York Daily Mirror

“Represents Rand’s first step from fiction to public philosophy.” James T. Baker, historian

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