Title: Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
Author(s): Ayn Rand; Peter Schwartz
Language: English
Publisher: Meridian
ISBN: 9780452011847
Extension: EPUB
Size: 376 KB
Subjects: General, United States, Social Science, Social Aspects, Philosophy, History of Ideas & Popular Philosophy, Political Ideologies, Political Science, Conservatism & Liberalism, Technology & Engineering, Modern, History & Surveys, History & Surveys - Modern, Movements, USA, History & Theory, Movements - General, American Philosophy (20th Century), New Left - United States, Technology and civilization, Technology and civilization., New Left, New Left - United States.
Review
Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly. --_New York Times Book Review_
''Ayn Rand is destined to rank in history as the outstanding novelist and most profound philosopher of the twentieth century.'' --_New York Daily Mirror_
Product 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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