Philosophy
by Ayn Rand | 
The Voice of Reason
by Ayn Rand |
Objectivism
by Leonard Peikoff | 
The Virtue of Selfishness
by Ayn Rand | 
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton | 
On Seeing and Noticing
by Alain de Botton | 
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
by Julia Annas | 
The Meaning of Life
by Terry Eagleton | 
The Silence of Animals
by John Gray | 
The Meaning of Things
by A. C. Grayling | 
Why I Am So Wise
by Friedrich Nietzsche |
Kant in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern | 
What Does It All Mean?
by Thomas Nagel | 
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
by Simon Blackburn |
The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature
by Ayn Rand | 
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand | 
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand | 
We the Living
by Ayn Rand | 
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
by John Locke | 
The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli |
This is Ayne Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosphical doctrince of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philsophy - an ethic of rational self-interest - that stands in sharp opposition of the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality - "a philosophy for living on earth" - are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, "For the New Intellectual."