The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution Trade paperback - 1999
by Ayn Rand
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- Title The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
- Author Ayn Rand
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Expanded
- Condition Used - Very Good-Plus
- Pages 290
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume, New York, New York
- Date 1999-01-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 26139-AC
- ISBN 9780452011847 / 0452011841
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.4 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 3.56 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Technology and civilization, New Left - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98024523
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.4
Summary
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 feminism, 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.