Objectivist movement

Philosophy Objectivism Metaphysical objectivism Epistemological realism Rational egoism Individualism Capitalism Romantic realism

Organizations Ayn Rand Institute Atlas Society Nathaniel Branden Institute Objectivist Party Libertarianz

Theorists Ayn Rand Andrew Bernstein · Harry Binswanger Nathaniel Branden · Yaron Brook Allan Gotthelf · Alan Greenspan David Kelley · Tibor R. Machan Leonard Peikoff · George Reisman John Ridpath · Richard Salsman Tara Smith

Literature Bibliography for Ayn Rand and Objectivism The Objectivist Newsletter The Objectivist The Ayn Rand Letter The Objectivist Forum For the New Intellectual Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology The Ayn Rand Lexicon Capitalism Magazine Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal The Early Ayn Rand Journal of Ayn Rand Studies The Objective Standard Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Philosophy: Who Needs It Return of the Primitive The Romantic Manifesto The Virtue of Selfishness The Voice of Reason

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Objectivism is a philosophical system initially developed in the 20th century by Ayn Rand. The Objectivist movement was a movement to popularize Ayn Rands Objectivist philosophy that began with the founding of the Nathaniel Branden Institute in 1960. ... This article is about the philosophy of Ayn Rand. ... This article is about the philosophy of Ayn Rand. ... Contemporary philosophical realism, also referred to as metaphysical realism, is the belief in a reality that is completely ontologically independent of our conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, etc. ... Epistomological realism is a philosophical position, a subcategory of objectivism, holding that what you know about an object exists independently of your mind. ... Rational egoism is the philosophical view that it is always in accordance with reason to pursue ones own interests. ... For articles with similar names and topics, see Individual (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Capitalism (disambiguation). ... Romantic Realism is an aesthetic term that usually refers to art that deals with the themes of volition and value while also acknowledging objective reality and the importance of technique. ... The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism (ARI) was established in 1985, three years after Ayn Rands death, by Leonard Peikoff, Rands legal and intellectual heir. ... The Atlas Society — of which The Objectivist Center (TOC) is a part — is a research and advocacy organization promoting a culture that affirms the core Objectivist values of reason, individualism, freedom, and achievement. ... The Nathaniel Branden Institute (originally the Nathaniel Branden Lectures) was an organization founded by Nathaniel Branden in 1958 to promote Ayn Rands philosophy, Objectivism. ... The Objectivist Party is a political party which seeks to promote Ayn Rands philosophy of Objectivism. ... Libertarianz is a political party in New Zealand (hence the NZ at the end of their name) dedicated to libertarianism, and claims to be the only party in New Zealand dedicated to maximising personal freedom and reducing the size of government – to getting government out of your face, out of... Ayn Rand (IPA: , February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Russian: ), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher. ... Andrew Bernstein is an Objectivist philosopher and professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Purchase. ... Harry Binswanger (born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1944) is a philosopher and writer. ... Nathaniel Branden (b. ... Yaron Brook is the current president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute (since 2000). ... Allan Gotthelf (born Brooklyn NY, 1942) is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey and visiting professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he holds the Universitys Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism (since 2003). ... Squalltoonix (born March 6, 1926 in New York City) is an American economist and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. ... David Kelley For the producer of the same name, see David E. Kelley. ... Tibor R. Machan, Ph. ... Leonard Peikoff circa 1970 Leonard Peikoff (born 1933) is an Objectivist philosopher and author. ... George Reisman is Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University, and author of the massive 1,050-page volume Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (ISBN 0915463733). ... John Ridpath, Ph. ... Richard Salsman is an an American economist and lecturer. ... Tara Smith is a professor of philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin who has specialized in moral and political theory. ... The Objectivist Newsletter was an 4-page Objectivist magazine published monthly from January 1962 to December 1965, when it was replaced by The Objectivist. ... The Objectivist was an Objectivist magazine published from January 1966 to September 1971, as the successor to The Objectivist Newsletter. ... The Ayn Rand Letter was an Objectivist magazine published from October 1971 to February 1976, as successor to the previous The Objectivist. ... The Objectivist Forum was an Objectivist bimonthly journal published from February 1980 through December 1987. ... For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand is a 1961 book by Ayn Rand. ... Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, published in 1967, was Ayn Rands attempt to summarize the Objectivist theory of concepts, and to submit her solution to the problem of universals. ... The Ayn Rand Lexicon, edited by Harry Binswanger, is a comprehensive source of information on Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. ... Capitalism Magazine is an online magazine dedicated to the advocacy of unregulated capitalism, which is maintained by Marc Da Cunha. ... The Early Ayn Rand is a collection of unpublished early short stories, plays, and excerpts from We The Living and The Fountainhead, written by Ayn Rand and published after her death in 1984. ... The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (JARS) is an academic journal devoted to the study of the philosophy of Ayn Rand. ... The Objective Standard is an American journal on culture and politics written from the Objectivist perspective. ... Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, (ISBN 0-452-01101-9) is a book by Dr. Leonard Peikoff, which he claims is the first comprehensive statement of the philosophy of Objectivism. ... The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature is Ayn Rands non-fiction work, a collection of essays regarding the nature of art. ... The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays and papers by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. ... The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought is a collection of essays by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, and Peter Schwartz, and edited by Leonard Peikoff. ... Many individuals found their support of libertarianism upon ideological elements derived from the philosophy of novelist Ayn Rand, which she called Objectivism. ... Objectivism is a philosophy created by Ayn Rand, which some gay and lesbian people have been interested in for its celebration of personal freedom and individuality at the expense of government power. ... The Randian hero is a ubiquitous figure in the fiction of Ayn Rand, most famously in the figures of The Fountainheads Howard Roark and Atlas Shruggeds John Galt. ... A philosophical movement is either the appearance or increased popularity of a specific school of philosophy, or a fairly broad but identifiable sea-change in philosophical thought on a particular subject. ... This article is about the philosophy of Ayn Rand. ... List of philosophical schools and movements: Abderites Aberdeen Philosophical Society Academics Achintya Bheda Abheda Agriculture School Alexandrian School New England Transcendentalism Arianism Arminianism Athenian School Australian materialism Baden School British idealism Bavarian Illuminati Buchmanism Cambridge Platonists Carolingian Renaissance Chinese Legalism Collegium Conimbricense Confucianism Copernican revolution Critical Realism Cynics Cyrenaics Dialectical... Ayn Rand (IPA: , February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Russian: ), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher. ...

Works by Ayn Rand

The lists below provide information on Ayn Rand's major works and collections. Where there are multiple editions, the primary information listed is for the first regular trade edition, with notes following about other editions if they involve revisions or additions to the content. For dramatic works, date of first production is used instead of date of first publication. Individual essays, short stories and other short items are not listed separately, but most are reproduced in the items below.

Fiction and drama

• Night of January 16th (1934). Stage play. Produced in Los Angeles as Woman on Trial, then on Broadway as Night of January 16th. Player's book and director's manuscript with edits by Nathaniel Edward Reeid published in 1936. Revised version by Rand published by The World Publishing in 1968.
• We the Living (1936). New York: Macmillan. Revised edition published by Random House in 1959. 60th anniversary edition published by New American Library in 1996, includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, ISBN 0-525-94054-5.
• Anthem (1938). London: Cassell and Company. Revised edition published by Pamphleteers in 1946. 50th anniversary edition published by Dutton in 1995, includes the revised edition text plus a facsimile of the first edition, ISBN 0-525-94015-4.
• The Unconquered (1940). Stage adaptation of We the Living. Produced on Broadway but never published.
• The Fountainhead (1943). New York: Bobbs-Merrill. 25th anniversary edition published by New American Library in 1971, includes a new introduction by Rand. 50th anniversary edition published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1993, includes an afterword by Leonard Peikoff, ISBN 0-451-17512-3.
• Love Letters (1945). Screenplay.
• You Came Along (1945). Screenplay, co-written with Robert Smith.
• The Fountainhead (1949). Screenplay adaptation of her own novel.
• Atlas Shrugged (1957). New York: Random House. 35th anniversary edition published by Dutton in 1992, includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, ISBN 0-525-93418-9.
• The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction (1984). Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-453-00465-2. Expanded second edition published in 2005, ISBN 0-451-21465-X.
• Three Plays (2005). Richard E. Ralston, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-451-21466-8.

Night of January 16 was a play written by Ayn Rand, inspired by the death of the Match King, Ivar Kreuger. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... We the Living is Ayn Rands first novel. ... Anthem is a dystopian, science-fiction novella by philosopher Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. ... For the film, see The Fountainhead (film). ... For the film, see Atlas Shrugged (film). ... The Early Ayn Rand is a collection of unpublished early short stories, plays, and excerpts from We The Living and The Fountainhead, written by Ayn Rand and published after her death in 1984. ... Leonard Peikoff circa 1970 Leonard Peikoff (born 1933) is an Objectivist philosopher and author. ...

Non-fiction books

• For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (1961). New York: Random House.
• The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (1964). New York: New American Library. Includes essays by Nathaniel Branden. Introduction was revised in 1970.
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966). New York: New American Library. Includes essays by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. Expanded second edition published by New American Library in 1967. Introduction was revised in 1970.
• The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature (1969). New York: The World Publishing. Expanded second edition published by New American Library in 1975.
• The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971). New York: New American Library. Expanded second edition published by New American Library in 1975. See also Return of the Primitive below.
• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979). New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-451-61751-7. Includes an essay by Leonard Peikoff. A booklet of Rand's title essay was published by The Objectivist in 1967. Expanded second edition published by Meridian in 1990, edited by Harry Binswanger and Leonard Peikoff, ISBN 0-453-00724-4.
• Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982). Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: Bobbs-Merrill. ISBN 0-672-52725-1.
• The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (1989). Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-453-00634-5. Includes essays by Leonard Peikoff and Peter Schwartz.
• The Ayn Rand Column: Written for the Los Angeles Times (1991). Peter Schwartz, ed. Oceanside, California: Second Renaissance Books. ISBN 1-56114-099-6. Expanded second edition published by Second Renaissance Books in 1998, ISBN 1-56114-292-1.
• Ayn Rand's Marginalia: Her Critical Comments on the Writings of Over 20 Authors (1995). Robert Mayhew, ed. New Milford, Connecticut: Second Renaissance Books. ISBN 1-56114-250-6
• Letters of Ayn Rand (1995). Michael S. Berliner, ed. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-93946-6. Includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff.
• Journals of Ayn Rand (1997). David Harriman, ed. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-93946-6. Includes a foreword by Leonard Peikoff.
• The Ayn Rand Reader (1999) Gary Hull and Leonard Peikoff, eds. New York: Plume. ISBN 0-452-28040-0.
• Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1999). Peter Schwartz, ed. New York: Meridian. ISBN 0-452-01184-1. Revised edition of Rand's earlier book, The New Left, and includes essays by Schwartz.
• Russian Writings on Hollywood (1999). Michael S. Berliner, ed.; Dina Garmong, trans. Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press. ISBN 0-9625336-3-7. Reproduces and translates two booklets previously published in Russia without Rand's knowledge.
• Why Businessmen Need Philosophy (1999). Richard E. Ralston, ed. Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press. ISBN 0-9625336-2-9. Includes essays by Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, Edwin A. Locke, John Ridpath, Richard M. Salsman, and Jaana Woiceshyn.
• The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (2000). Tore Boeckmann, ed. New York: Plume. ISBN 0-452-28154-7. Includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff.
• The Art of Non-Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (2001). Robert Mayhew, ed. New York: Plume. ISBN 0-452-28231-4. Includes an introduction by Peter Schwartz.
• Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A (2005). Robert Mayhew, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-451-21665-2.

For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand is a 1961 book by Ayn Rand. ... The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays and papers by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. ... Nathaniel Branden (b. ... Squalltoonix (born March 6, 1926 in New York City) is an American economist and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. ... Robert Hessen, a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is a historian specializing in American economic and business history. ... The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature is Ayn Rands non-fiction work, a collection of essays regarding the nature of art. ... Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, published in 1967, was Ayn Rands attempt to summarize the Objectivist theory of concepts, and to submit her solution to the problem of universals. ... Leonard Peikoff circa 1970 Leonard Peikoff (born 1933) is an Objectivist philosopher and author. ... Harry Binswanger (born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1944) is a philosopher and writer. ... The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought is a collection of essays by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, and Peter Schwartz, and edited by Leonard Peikoff. ... Peter Schwartz is a writer and journalist who follows the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. ... The Ayn Rand Column: Written for the Los Angeles Times is a collection of the newspaper columns that Ayn Rand wrote for the Los Angeles Times, as well as other essays by Rand. ... The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers is a nonfiction book by Ayn Rand, published posthumously. ...

Periodicals edited by Ayn Rand

• The Objectivist Newsletter. Vols. 1-4. 1962–1965. Co-edited with Nathaniel Branden.
• The Objectivist. Vols. 5-10. 1966–1971. Co-edited with Nathaniel Branden through the April 1968 issue (Volume 7, Issue 4), then solely by Rand. Volume numbering carried over from The Objectivist Newsletter.
• The Ayn Rand Letter. Vols. 1-4. 1971–1976.

The term Objectivist periodicals refers to a variety of journals, magazines and newsletters with an editorial perspective explicitly based on Ayn Rands philosophy of Objectivism. ... Nathaniel Branden (b. ...

Books about Ayn Rand or Objectivism

The books listed below are either entirely about Ayn Rand/Objectivism or contain multiple relevant chapters/essays. The main body of the list consists of books about Objectivist ideas published by academic, commercial or institutional presses. Special subsections list books about Rand's life and writing or self-published books. For books with a single relevant chapter or essay, see the list of other works below.

• Badhwar, Neera K. (2001). Is Virtue Only a Means to Happiness?. Objectivist Studies Monographs. Poughkeepsie, New York: The Objectivist Center. ISBN 1-57724-059-6. 
• Bernstein, Andrew (2005). The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-faire. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 0-7618-3220-3. 
• Bernstein, Andrew (2009). Objectivism in One Lesson: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ayn Rand. Lanham, Maryland: Hamilton Books. ISBN 0-7618-4359-0. 
• Binswanger, Harry (1986). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-453-00528-4. http://aynrandlexicon.com/. 
• Binswanger, Harry (1990). The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts. Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press. ISBN 0-9625336-0-2. 
• Bishop, Lloyd (2001). In Defense of Altruism: Inadequacies of Ayn Rand's Ethics and Psychological Egoism. New Orleans: University Press of the South. ISBN 1-889431-79-6. 
• Branden, Nathaniel (1969). The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A New Concept of Man's Psychological Nature. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing. ISBN 0-8402-1109-0. 
• Branden, Nathaniel (1983). Honoring the Self. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher. ISBN 0-87477-270-2. 
• Childs, Roy A., Jr. (1994). Taylor, Joan Kennedy. ed. Liberty Against Power. San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes. ISBN 0-930073-13-4. 
• Den Uyl, Douglas & Rasmussen, Douglas, eds (1984). The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01033-7. 
• Ellis, Albert (1968). Is Objectivism A Religion?. New York: Lyle Stuart. 
• Ellis, Albert (2006). Are Capitalism, Objectivism, and Libertarianism Religions? Yes!. Santa Barbara, California: Walden Three. ISBN 1-4348-0885-8.  Revised and retitled edition of Is Objectivism a Religion?
• Gladstein, Mimi Reisel (2000). Atlas Shrugged: Manifesto of the Mind. Twayne's Masterwork Studies. New York: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-1638-6. 
• Gladstein, Mimi Reisel & Sciabarra, Chris Matthew, eds (1999). Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Re-reading the Canon. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-534-57625-7. 
• Gotthelf, Allan (2000). On Ayn Rand. Wadsworth Philosophers Series. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN 0-534-57625-7. 
• Hessen, Robert (1979). In Defense of the Corporation. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press. ISBN 0-8179-7071-1. 
• Hudgins, Edward (2008). An Objectivist Secular Reader. Washington, DC: The Atlas Society. ISBN 9780981527. 
• Kelley, David (1986). The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Perception. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1268-2. 
• Kelley, David (1990). Truth and Toleration. Verbank, New York: Institute for Objectivist Studies. 
• Kelley, David (2000). The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism (paperback ed.). Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-7658-0863-3. OCLC 44727861.  Revised and retitled edition of Truth and Toleration.
• Kroy, Moshe (1975) (in Hebrew). Ḥayim ʻal-pi ha-śekhel: tenaʾim le-osher obyeḳṭivi [Rational existence: The conditions for objective happiness]. Tel Aviv: Metsiʾut. 
• Long, Roderick T. (2000). Reason and Value: Rand versus Aristotle. Objectivist Studies Monographs. Poughkeepsie, New York: The Objectivist Center. ISBN 1-57724-045-6. 
• Machan, Tibor R. (2000). Ayn Rand. Masterworks in the Western Tradition. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 0-8204-4144-9. 
• Machan, Tibor R., ed (2006). Ayn Rand at 100. New Delhi, India: Pragun Publications. ISBN 81-89645-57-9. 
• Merrill, Ronald E. (1991). The Ideas of Ayn Rand. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing. ISBN 0-8126-9157-1. 
• O'Neill, William F. (1971). With Charity Toward None: An Analysis of Ayn Rand's Philosophy. New York: Philosophical Library. ISBN 0-80222-034-7. 
• Paul, Ellen Frankel; Miller, Fred D., Jr. & Paul, Jeffrey, eds (2008). Objectivism, Subjectivism, and Relativism in Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-71963-6. 
• Peikoff, Leonard (1982). The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America. New York: Stein & Day. ISBN 0-8128-2850-X. 
• Peikoff, Leonard (1991). Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. New York: E. P. Dutton. ISBN 0-452-01101-9. 
• Plasil, Ellen (1985). Therapist. New York: St. Martin's/Marek. ISBN 0-312-79912-8. 
• Podritske, Marlene & Schwartz, Peter, eds (2009). Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-534-57625-7. 
• Raimondo, Justin (1993). Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement. Burlingame, California: Center for Libertarian Studies. ISBN 1-883959-00-4. 
• Reisman, George (1996) (PDF). Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. Ottowa, Illinois: Jameson Books. ISBN 0-915463-73-3. http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf. 
• Robbins, John W. (1974). Answer to Ayn Rand: A Critique of the Philosophy of Objectivism. Washington, DC: Mount Vernon Publishing. ISBN 0-940931-50-8. 
• Robbins, John W. (1997). Without a Prayer: Ayn Rand and the Close of Her System. Hobbs, New Mexico: Trinity Foundation. ISBN 0-940931-50-8.  Revised and retitled edition of Answer to Ayn Rand.
• Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (1995). Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-271-01440-7. OCLC 31133644. 
• Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (2003). Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation. Cape Town, South Afica: Leap Publishing. ISBN 0-958-4573-3-6. 
• Seddon, Fred (2003). Ayn Rand, Objectivists, and the History of Philosophy. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 0-7618-2308-5. 
• Simpson, Brian (2005). Markets Don't Fail!. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-1034-9. 
• Smith, George H. (1991). Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-577-6. 
• Smith, Tara (1997). Moral Rights and Political Freedom. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8476-8026-6. 
• Smith, Tara (2000). Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8476-9760-6. 
• Smith, Tara (2006). Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-86050-4. 
• Torres, Louis & Kamhi, Michelle Marder, eds (2000). What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand. Chicago: Open Court Publishing. ISBN 0-8126-9372-8. 
• Touchstone, Kathleen (2006). Then Athena Said: Unilateral Transfers and the Transformation of Objectivist Ethics. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 0-7618-3519-9. 
• Wortham, Anne (1981). The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0-8142-0318-3. 
• Younkins, Edward W. (2005). Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-1076-4. 
• Younkins, Edward W. (2007). Champions of a Free Society: Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-2647-4. 

Andrew Bernstein is an Objectivist philosopher and professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Purchase. ... The Capitalist Manifesto : The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire is a book by Objectivist philosopher Andrew Bernstein, published in 2005. ... Harry Binswanger (born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1944) is a philosopher and writer. ... New American Library (aka NAL) began publishing paperbacks in the 1940s. ... The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism (ARI) was established in 1985, three years after Ayn Rands death, by Leonard Peikoff, Rands legal and intellectual heir. ... Nathaniel Branden (b. ... Roy A. Childs, Jr. ... Joan Kennedy Taylor (December 21, 1926 - October 29, 2005) was an American journalist, author, editor, public intellectual, and political activist. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Chris Matthew Sciabarra (b. ... Allan Gotthelf (born Brooklyn NY, 1942) is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey and visiting professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he holds the Universitys Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism (since 2003). ... On Ayn Rand is a 104-page book about the life and thought of 20th-century philosopher Ayn Rand, written by scholar Allan Gotthelf and published in early 2000 by Wadsworth Publishing (now part of Cengage Learning) in its Wadsworth Philosophers series. ... Robert Hessen, a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is a historian specializing in American economic and business history. ... David Kelley For the producer of the same name, see David E. Kelley. ... Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the worlds information and reducing information costs. ... Tibor R. Machan, Ph. ... Leonard Peikoff circa 1970 Leonard Peikoff (born 1933) is an Objectivist philosopher and author. ... Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, (ISBN 0-452-01101-9) is a book by Dr. Leonard Peikoff, which he claims is the first comprehensive statement of the philosophy of Objectivism. ... E. P. Dutton is an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton. ... Peter Schwartz is a writer and journalist who follows the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... George Reisman is Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University, and author of the massive 1,050-page volume Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (ISBN 0915463733). ... Chris Matthew Sciabarra (b. ... Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the worlds information and reducing information costs. ... George H. Smith is a libertarian author. ... Tara Smith is a professor of philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin who has specialized in moral and political theory. ... Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc. ... The headquarters of the Cambridge University Press, in Trumpington Street, Cambridge. ...

Biography and literary analysis

The books below focus on Ayn Rand's life or her literary works.

• Baker, James T. (1987). Ayn Rand. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-7497-1. OCLC 14933003. 
• Branden, Barbara (1986). The Passion of Ayn Rand. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company. ISBN 0-385-19171-5. OCLC 12614728. 
• Branden, Nathaniel (1989). Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-46107-3. 
• Branden, Nathaniel (1998). My Years with Ayn Rand. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. ISBN 0-7879-4513-7. OCLC 39391081.  Revised and retitled edition of Judgment Day.
• Branden, Nathaniel & Branden, Barbara (1962). Who is Ayn Rand?. New York: Random House. OCLC 313377536. 
• Britting, Jeff (2004). Ayn Rand. Overlook Illustrated Lives. New York: Overlook Duckworth. ISBN 1-58567-406-0. OCLC 56413971. 
• Den Uyl, Douglas J. (1999). The Fountainhead: An American Novel. Twayne's Masterwork Studies. New York: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-7932-9. 
• Doherty, Brian (20007). Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement. New York: Public Affairs. ISBN 1-58648-350-1. OCLC 76141517. 
• Gladstein, Mimi Reisel (1984). The Ayn Rand Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-22079-4. 
• Gladstein, Mimi Reisel (1999). The New Ayn Rand Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30321-5. OCLC 40359365.  Revised and retitled edition of The Ayn Rand Companion.
• Holzer, Erika (2005). Ayn Rand: My Fiction Writing Teacher. Madison Press. ISBN 0-615-13041-0. 
• Johnson, Donald Leslie (2005). The Fountainheads: Wright, Rand, the FBI and Hollywood. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1958-X. 
• Mayhew, Robert, ed (2004). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-0697-X. 
• Mayhew, Robert, ed (2005). Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-1030-6. 
• Mayhew, Robert (2005). Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-5276-4. 
• Mayhew, Robert, ed (2006). Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-1577-4. 
• Mayhew, Robert, ed (2009). Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-2779-7. 
• Paxton, Michael (1998). Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (The Companion Book). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 0-87905-845-5. OCLC 38048196. 
• Perinn, Vincent L. (1990). Ayn Rand: First Descriptive Bibliography. Rockville, Maryland: Quill & Brush. ISBN 0-9610494-8-0. 
• Sures, Mary Ann & Sures, Charles (2001). Facets of Ayn Rand. Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press. ISBN 0-9625336-5-3. http://www.facetsofaynrand.com/. 
• Thomas, William, ed (2005). The Literary Art of Ayn Rand. Poughkeepsie, New York: The Objectivist Center. ISBN 1-57724-070-7. 
• Valliant, James S. (2005). The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics. Dallas, Texas: Durban House. ISBN 1-930754-67-1. 
• Walker, Jeff (1999). The Ayn Rand Cult. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing. ISBN 0-8126-9390-6. OCLC 39914039. 
• Younkins, Edward W. (2007). Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 0-7546-5533-4. 

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Self-published books

The books below were self-published or published through a vanity press. A vanity press or vanity publisher is a book printer which, while claiming to be a publisher, charges the writer a fee in return for publishing his or her books, or otherwise makes most of its money from the author rather than from the public. ...

• Alexander, Jason (1988). Ayn Rand, Libertarians and The Fifth Revolution. San Francisco: Sinalta Press. ISBN 0-9318260-03-9. 
• Biddle, Craig (2002). Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It. Glen Allen, Virginia: Glen Allen Press. ISBN 0-9713737-0-1. 
• Bowden, Thomas A. (2003). The Enemies of Christopher Columbus. Cresskill, New Jersey: The Paper Tiger. ISBN 1-889439-34-7. 
• Cookinham, Frederick (2005). The Age of Rand. San Jose, California: iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-35153-0. 
• Erickson, Peter (1997). The Stance of Atlas: An Examination of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand. Portland, Oregon: Herakles Press. ISBN 0-9654183-0-8. 
• Firehammer, Reginald (2004). The Hijacking of a Philosophy: Homosexuals vs. Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Newton, New Hampshire: HP America. ISBN 1-59457-275-5. 
• Greenberg, Sid (1977). Ayn Rand and Alienation: The Platonic Idealism of the Objectivist Ethics and a Rational Alternative. San Francisco: Sid Greenberg. ISBN 0-915358-25-5. 
• Greiner, Donna & Kinni, Theodore B. (2001). Ayn Rand and Business. New York: Texere. ISBN 1-58799-072-5. 
• Hamel, Virginia L.L. (1990). In Defense of Ayn Rand. Brookline, Massachusetts: New Beacon Publications. 
• Lepanto, Paul (1971). Return to Reason: An Introduction to Objectivism. New York: Exposition Press. ISBN 0-682-47204-2. 
• Nyquist, Greg S. (2001). Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature. San Jose, California: Writers Club Press. ISBN 0-595-19633-0. 
• Porter, Tom (1999). Ayn Rand's Theory of Knowledge: A Commentary. Reseda, California: Tom Porter. ISBN 0-9670411-0-4. 
• Ryan, Scott (2003). Objectivism and the Corruption of Rationality: A Critique of Ayn Rand's Epistemology. San Jose: Writers Club Press. ISBN 0-595-26733-5. 
• Yang, Michael B. (2000). Reconsidering Ayn Rand. Enumclaw, Washington: WinePress Publishing. ISBN 1-57921-255-7. 
• Yoke, James H. (2002). An Introduction to the Objectivist Community: A Rational Philosophy and Way of Life. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris. ISBN 1-4010-2883-7. 

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Other works about Ayn Rand or Objectivism

The works listed below include articles, pamphlets, individual chapters of books, and materials in non-print media. Articles reproduced in books listed above are not included on this list.

• Aune, James Arnt (2001). "Checking Ayn Rand's Premises (or, The Revenge of the Nerds)". Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 1-57230-598-3. 
• Barnes, Hazel E. (1967). "Egoistic Humanism: Ayn Rand's Objectivism". An Existentialist Ethics. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 
• Barry, Norman P. (1987). "Ayn Rand and Egoism". On Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-00243-2. 
• Cox, Stephen (Winter 1986). "Ayn Rand: Theory versus Creative Life" (PDF). Journal of Libertarian Studies 8 (1): 19-29. http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/8_1/8_1_2.pdf. 
• Den Uyl, Douglas; Rasmussen, Douglas (April 1978). "Nozick On the Randian Argument". The Personalist 59: 184-205. 
• Efron, Robert (Autumn 1967). "Biology Without Consciousness – And Its Consequences". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 2 (1). 
• Forman, Frank (1989). "Ayn Rand and Natural Rights". The Metaphysics of Liberty. Theory and Decision Library, Series A. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-0080-7. 
• Gladstein, Mimi R. (February 1978). "Ayn Rand and Feminism: An Unlikely Alliance". College English 39 (6): 25-30. 
• Gordon, Philip (Autumn 1977). "The Extroflective Hero: A Look at Ayn Rand". Journal of Popular Culture 10 (4): 701-710. 
• Greenspan, Alan (2007). "The Making of an Economist". The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. New York: Penguin Press. pp. 38-53. ISBN 1-59420-131-5. OCLC 122973403. 
• Hessen, Robert (1999). "Objectivist, 1962-1976". in Lora, Ronald & Henry, William Longton (eds.). The Conservative Press in Twentieth-Century America. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 349–356. ISBN 0-313-21390-9. OCLC 40481045. 
• Hicks, Stephen (Winter 2003). "Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics" (PDF). Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy 3 (1): 1-26. http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/arcbe.pdf.  Based on a lecture given to the Ayn Rand Society at the American Philosophical Association on December 29, 1995.
• Kelley, David (1996). Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence. Poughkeepsie, New York: The Objectivist Center. ISBN 1-57724-000-6. 
• Kelley, David (1999). A Theory of Abstraction. Poughkeepsie, New York: The Objectivist Center. ISBN 1-57724-062-6. 
• Kornstein, Daniel (1982). "Ayn Rand's Legal World". The Music of the Laws. New York: Everest House Publishers. ISBN 0-89696-185-0. 
• Nozick, Robert (Spring 1971). "On the Randian Argument". The Personalist 52: 282-304.  Reprinted in Nozick, Socratic Puzzles, 1997, ISBN 0-674-81653-6.
• O'Neil, Patrick M. (Spring 1983). "Ayn Rand and the Is-Ought Problem" (PDF). Journal of Libertarian Studies 7 (1): 81-99. http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/7_1/7_1_4.pdf. 
• Raimondo, Justin (2000). "Three Encounters: Mises, Buckley, and Rand". An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-809-7. 
• Rasmussen, Douglas (1982). "Essentialism, Values and Rights: The Objectivist Case for the Free Society". in Machan, Tibor R.. The Libertarian Reader. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8476-7061-9. 
• Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (1996). Ayn Rand: Her Life and Thought. Poughkeepsie, New York: The Atlas Society. ISBN 1-57724-031-6. 
• Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (Fall 1998). "A Renaissance in Rand Scholarship" (PDF). Reason Papers 23: 132–159. http://www.reasonpapers.com/pdf/23/rp_23_16.pdf. 
• Smith, George H. (2000). "Belief and Knowledge: Ayn Rand's Theory of Knowledge". Why Atheism?. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-268-4. 
• Thomas, William (2003). "Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism". in Frost, Bryan-Paul & Sikkenga, Jeffrey (eds.). History of American Political Thought. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-0623-6. 

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Periodicals focused on Objectivism

• The Intellectual Activist (1979– ). Peter Schwartz editor (1979–1991), Robert Stubblefield editor (1991–1996), Robert Tracinski editor (1996– ). Published fortnightly to September 1991; then bi-monthly to November 1998; monthly thereafter.
• The Objectivist Forum. Vols 1-8, 1980–1987. Harry Binswanger, editor and publisher; Leonard Peikoff, consulting editor. Published bi-monthly.
• Full Context. Vols 1-13, 1988–2000. Karen (Reedstrom) Minto, editor. Published monthly to June 1998; bi-monthly thereafter.
• Objectivity. Vols 1-2, 1990–1998. Stephen C. Boydstun, editor. Published occasionally.
• The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (1999– ). R.W. Bradford (until his death in 2005), Stephen Cox and Chris Matthew Sciabarra, editors. Published semi-annually.
• The Undercurrent (2005– ). Various student editors. Published occasionally.
• The Objective Standard (2006– ). Craig Biddle, editor and publisher. Published quarterly.

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References

• Gladstein, Mimi Reisel (1999). The New Ayn Rand Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30321-5. 
• Perinn, Vincent L. (1990). Ayn Rand: First Descriptive Bibliography. Rockville, Maryland: Quill & Brush. ISBN 0-9610494-8-0. 

External links

• Ayn Rand Bibliography — Bibliography for Rand, including adaptations and unproduced dramatic works.
• Books about Objectivism or Ayn Rand — Lists of books related to Objectivism with detail pages including tables of contents, ISBN numbers for multiple editions, and links to reviews.
• Chronology & Bibliography of Ayn Rand's Life & Works — Detailed chronological listing of Rand's articles, books, lectures and other works.