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Description edit
Underlying this treatise is the objectivist philosophy which has placed Ayn Rand in the mainstream of American thought.
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First Sentence edit
THE position of art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
1. The Psycho-Epistemology of Art
2. Philosophy and Sense of Life
3. Art and Sense of Life
4. Basic Principles of Literature
5. What Is Romanticism?
6. The Esthetic Vacuum of Our Age
7. Bootleg Romanticism
8. Art and Moral Treason
9. Introduction to Ninety-Three
10. The Goal of My Writing
11. The Simplest Thing in the World
Index
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: World Pub. Co.
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1969
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 201
Publisher: World Pub. Co.
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1969
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 201
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PN45 .R35
- Dewey: 801.9
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics › Rand, Ayn
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( R ) › Rand, Ayn
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory › Semiotics
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Modern
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Criticism
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