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Key Objectivist Texts

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Book Title	Author(s)	Date	Genre	Brief Com­ment
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	Influ­en­tial 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. Quin­tes­sen­tial 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	How things might be and ought to be.
Return of the Primitive	Ayn Rand and others	1971	Col­lect­ed Essays	The Anti-Indus­tri­al Revolution.
The Omi­nous Parallels	Leonard Peikoff	1982	Prin­ci­pal Philosophy	Vast but unnec­es­sary human suffering.
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 Voice of Rea­son: Essays in Objec­tivist Thought	Ayn Rand and others	1990	Col­lect­ed Essays	A coda of Ayn Rand’s essays.
Objec­tivism: The Phi­los­o­phy of Ayn Rand	Leonard Peikoff	1993	Prin­ci­pal Philosophy	Defin­i­tive State­ment of Objectivism.
The DIM Hypothesis	Leonard Peikoff	2012	Prin­ci­pal Philosophy	Why the lights of the west are going out.

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