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by Ayn Rand (Author), Peter Schwartz (Contributor) "The so-called student "rebellion," which was started and key-noted at the University of California at Berkeley, has profound significance, but not of the kind that..." (more)
Key Phrases: ecological crusade, personal alchemy, conceptual faculty, United States, New Left, Women's Lib (more...)
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Book Description
In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd. In Return Of The Primitive (originally published in 1971 as The New Left), Ayn Rand, bestselling novelist and originator of the theory of Objectivism, identified the intellectual roots of this movement. She urged people to repudiate its mindless nihilism and to uphold, instead, a philosophy of reason, individualism, capitalism, and technological progress. Editor Peter Schwartz, in this new, expanded version of The New Left, has reorganized Rand's essays and added some of his own in order to underscore the continuing relevance of her analysis of that period. He examines such current ideologies as environmentalism and multiculturalism and argues that the same primitive, tribalist, "anti-industrial" mentality which animated the New Left a generation ago is shaping society today.

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The late 1960s saw the first widespread expression, in overt form, of the creed of anti-industrialism in America. The original edition of this book was published as a response - as an analysis and refutation of that deadly phenomenon. Among noted thinkers of the day, Ayn Rand alone stood firm against the tide of Kantian nihilism and in support of reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism - the philosophic ideals that are the foundation of American achievement and progress. Three decades later, despite a seemingly different sociopolitical climate, the intellectual essence of the "New Left" endures. Its continued influence - manifested in such ideologies as environmentalism and multiculturalism - renders Rand's observations and warnings as relevant, and as urgently needed, as when they were first written. In this newly revised and expanded volume, Peter Schwartz supplements Rand's work by shedding new light on the dangerous legacy of the New Left - a legacy that seeks to return mankind to the era of primitivism.

Product Details
  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Plume; New Exp edition (January 1, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0452011841
  • ISBN-13: 978-0452011847
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars 33 customer reviews (33 customer reviews)
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The so-called student "rebellion," which was started and key-noted at the University of California at Berkeley, has profound significance, but not of the kind that most commentators have ascribed to it. Read the first page
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ecological crusade, personal alchemy, conceptual faculty, student rebellion
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United States, New Left, Women's Lib, Soviet Russia, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Immanuel Kant, Linguistic Analysis, Red Square, University of California, World War, Earth First, Governor Brown, Logical Positivism, Paul Ehrlich, Regnery Gateway, Free Press, Free Speech Movement, John Dewey, Professor Petersen, The Objectivist Newsletter, University of Pennsylvania, Clark Kerr, Illiberal Education, Mario Savio
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