The Return of the Primitive

The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz, Peter Schwartz

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Penguin Putnam Inc
01 January 1999

Philosophy

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.

By: Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz
Introduction by: Peter Schwartz
Imprint: Penguin Putnam Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Open market ed
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9780452011847
ISBN 10: 0452011841
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 January 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction (Peter Schwartz) Foreword to the First Edition The Schools The Cashing-In: The Student ""Rebellion"" The Chickens' Homecoming The Comprachicos The Culture Apollo and Dionysus The ""Inexplicable Personal Alchemy"" The Age of Envy The Politics The Left: Old and New From a Symposium ""Political"" Crimes Racism Global Balkanization Gender Tribalism (Peter Schwartz) The Anti-Industrial Revolution The Philosophy of Privation (Peter Schwartz) Multicultural Nihilism (Peter Schwartz) The Anti-Industrial Revolution"

Born February 2, 1905, Ayn Rand published her first novel, We the Living, in 1936. Anthem followed in 1938. It was with the publication of The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) that she achieved her spectacular success. Rand's unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide audience. The fundamentals of her philosophy are put forth in three nonfiction books, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, The Virtues of Selfishness, and Capitalism- The Unknown Ideal. They are all available in Signet editions, as is the magnificent statement of her artistic credo, The Romantic Manifesto.