Author(s): Ayn Rand
Publisher: Plume
Pages: 352
Binding: Paperback
Ayn Rand, best-selling novelist and originator of the theory of Objectivism, identified the intellectual roots of the anti-technology and anti-progress movement which took off in the 1960s and 1970s. She urged people to repudiate its mindless nihilism and to uphold, instead, a philosophy of reason, individualism, capitalism, and technological progress. This book includes Rand's magnificent, classic essay, “The Comprachicos." This timeless article is must-reading for anybody who wants to better understand today's nihilism and school violence. Rand's assertions are becoming more and more relevant, as time goes by.