For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.

RAND, Ayn.

$3,500.00

Item Number: 146058

New York : Random House, 1961.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Edith- -who wanted non-fiction as the “real” – wishing you best premises for a great future in fiction- Ayn Rand April 1, 1961.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. This is the longest inscription from from Rand we have seen in this title.

"Rand’s 1961 book For The New Intellectual outlines her philosophical system of Objectivism by means of excerpts from We The Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged She then opens the book with an essay on the cultural bankruptcy that has undermined the capitalistic system of the United States. The essay is directed at ‘the New Intellectuals’ needed to restore and defend a capitalist economy in the face of that cultural bankruptcy. Rand is very clear that neither pragmatic nor economic argument is what must be used. Instead, it is arguments for ‘a new morality of rational self-interest’ that will provide the foundation for a new capitalist culture" (Bostaph, Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 11:1,20).