In part a history of We the Living, from its earliest drafts to the Italian film later based upon it, Mayhew's collection goes on to explore the enduring significance of Rand's first novel as a work both of philosophy and of literature. The edition includes three new chapters, as well as an epilogue by renowned Rand-scholar Leonard Peikoff. In the second edition, Robert Mayhew once again brings together pre-eminent scholars of Rand's writing. But Rand's first novel, We the Living, a lesser-known but no less important book, offers an early form of the author's nascent philosophy-the philosophy Rand later called Objectivism. Her unique vision of a world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his own good is skillfully developed and illustrated in her most famous novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy.
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