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Books: Key Objectivist Texts

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• 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
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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