Philosophy
by Ayn Rand | 
Objectivism
by Leonard Peikoff |
For the New Intellectual
by Ayn Rand | 
The Virtue of Selfishness
by Ayn Rand |
The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature
by Ayn Rand | 
Why I Am So Wise
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
On Seeing and Noticing
by Alain de Botton | 
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton |
Ayn Rand
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
by Julian Baggini | 
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
by Edward Craig |
The Duck That Won the Lottery
by Julian Baggini | 
On Suicide
by David Hume | 
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
by Daniel C. Dennett | 
On the Suffering of the World
by Arthur Schopenhauer | 
Philosophy and Social Hope
by Richard Rorty | 
Unpopular Essays
by Bertrand Russell | 
The Postmodern Condition
by Jean-Francois Lyotard | 
Rationalism in Politics
by Michael Oakeshott | 
The Silence of Animals
by John Gray |
Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand's life, are gathered in book form for the first time. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff's epilogue, "My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir," which answers the question "What was Ayn Rand really like?" Important reading for all thinking individuals, Rand's later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.