Books: Key Objectivist Texts
- With just a few additions, this is a reproduction of the table in Part 4, Section 6 of Objectivism: Reality Anchored Principles.
- Date refers to a book’s first publication. Consult the the principal book’s Annotated Bibliography.
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Title | Author/Editor | Date | Content | Brief Comment | Amazon |
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Objectivism: Reality Anchored Principles | Orrin Smith | 2022 | Philosophy | ||
We The Living | Ayn Rand | 1936 | Principal Fiction | The Individual vs. The State | |
Anthem | Ayn Rand | 1938 | Principal Fiction | A mental state of nature tale | |
The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 1943 | Principal Fiction | Individualism vs. Collectivism | |
Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 1957 | Principal Fiction | Rational egoists go on strike! | |
For the New Intellectual | Ayn Rand | 1963 | Collected Essays | An excellent recap of the fiction works | |
The Virtue of Selfishness | Ayn Rand and others | 1964 | Collected Essays | Rational-Self-Interest. Egoism. | |
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal | Ayn Rand and others | 1967 | Collected Essays | Its roots reside in objective reality | |
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology | Ayn Rand | 1967 | Principal Philosophy | Concept-formation mastered | |
The Romantic Manifesto | Ayn Rand | 1969 | Collected Essays | Objectivist Art = Romantic Realism | |
Return of the Primitive | Ayn Rand and others | 1971 | Collected Essays | Primeval wobble or vibrant sprint? | |
The Ominous Parallels | Leonard Peikoff | 1982 | Principal Philosophy | Roots of human-generated tragedies | |
Understanding Objectivism | Leonard Peikoff | 1983 | Principal Philosophy | Objectivist learning guide | |
Philosophy: Who Needs It | Ayn Rand | 1984 | Collected Essays | We’ve all got some. But what is it? | |
Teaching Johnny to Think | Leonard Peikoff | 1985 | Principal Philosophy | Youth education. (Adults too!) | |
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z | Ed. Harry Binswanger | 1988 | Reference | Rand excerpted and indexed | |
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought | Ayn Rand and others | 1990 | Collected Essays | The coda of Ayn Rand’s essays | |
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand | Leonard Peikoff | 1993 | Principal Philosophy | Definitive Statement of Objectivism | |
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand | Leonard Peikoff | 1993 | Principal Philosophy | Definitive Statement of Objectivism | ARI eStore |
The Objective Standard | Ed. Craig Biddle | 2006 | Objectivist Commentary | Objectivist commentary. Amazon Kindle Edition. | |
The Objective Standard | Ed. Craig Biddle | 2006 | Objectivist Commentary | Objectivist commentary. Direct subscriptions page. | TOS Direct |
The DIM Hypothesis | Leonard Peikoff | 2012 | Principal Philosophy | Why the lights of the west are going out | |
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged (1993) | Merriam-Webster | 1993 | Reference | A Father of Dictionaries | |
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (2nd Edition) | David Christian | 2011 | History | An updated and much detailed expansion of Professor Christian’s revolutionary ideas about history that he presents in his Great Course video lectures: Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity (2008). |
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