The Voice of Reason, Ayn Rand Edited and with additional essays by Leonard Peikoff
The Voice of Reason, Ayn Rand Edited and with additional essays by Leonard Peikoff
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The Voice of Reason
Essays in Objectivism

Author: Ayn Rand: Edited and with additional essays by Leonard Peikoff

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 15 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/27/2008

Categories: Nonfiction


Synopsis

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rands life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rands longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoffs 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, this collection communicates not only Rands singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.

Reviews

Things Ayn Rand doesn’t understand: Plato, Kant, Christianity. The Humanae Vitae rant could be summed up as “the right to sex without consequences”, ironic considering her successfully destroying the Brandens’ marriage, and driving her husband Frank to drink himself to death. Other than that, a lot......more

Goodreads review by Zach

Three stars because I cannot agree with much of what Rand argues. But also three stars because, as Leonard Peikoff explains in the epilogue, Ayn Rand worked hard to be understood, down to the root. I have to say, reading more Ayn Rand has helped me in conversation with capitalism apologists. When yo......more

Collection deeply probing essays by Ayn Rand and her acolytes, that enhances one's understanding of the Ayn Rand's philosophy that one has grasped from the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Certainly, not for everyone, but for hardcore objectivists, like me, it is a must read.......more