Key Objectivist Texts
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Title | Author/Editor | Date | Genre | Brief Comment | WebLinks |
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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 | Objectivist Art = Romantic Realism. | |
Return of the Primitive | Ayn Rand and others | 1971 | Collected Essays | The Anti-Industrial Revolution. | |
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 | A coda of Ayn Rand’s essays. | |
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand | Leonard Peikoff | 1993 | Principal Philosophy | Definitive Statement of Objectivism. | |
The Objective Standard | Ed. Craig Biddle | 2006 | Quarterly Journal | TOS offers print and digital subscription options. All subscriptions include access to archives. | Subscribe! |
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 | This dictionary is a father of dictionaries. | |
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (2nd Edition) | David Christian | 2011 | History | An updated and detailed expansion of Professor Christian’s revolutionary ideas about history from his 2008 video lectures: Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity. |