המדריך החדש לאמריקניזם: ההגות הפוליטית של איין ראנד (Anochi Library)

by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, Yaron Brook

"המחלוקת העיקרית בעולם כיום היא בין שני עקרונות: אינדיבידואליזם וקולקטיביזם", טענה איין ראנד בפתח סדרת מאמרים שפרסמה בשנת 1946, בשם "המדריך לאמריקניזם". במאמרים אלה הצביעה ראנד על העקרונות הפילוסופיים שעומדים ביסוד כינונה של ארצות הברית, שהיא לדבריה "המדינה המוסרית היחידה בהיסטוריה", כמו גם על העקרונות שמהווים איום על קיומה.שבעים ושתיים שנים לאחר פרסום "המדריך" של ראנד, בוחנים ממשיכי דרכה את הסוגיות שהעלתה, מפתחים ומרחיבים את הגותה הפוליטית, ועוסקים בשאלות עכשוויות נוספות בתחומי הפילוסופיה, הכלכלה, הפוליטיקה והמוסר. מאמרים עדכניים אלה מכונסים יחד עם מאמריה של ראנד ב"מדריך החדש לאמריקניזם".בנוסף, כולל הספר דיונים שנערכו עם ראנד על אתיקה ופוליטיקה, וקטעים מתוך ספרו של לאונרד פייקוף, "היפותזת ה- מדוע כבים אורות המערב.בין התורמים לספר: ד"ר ירון ברוק, ד"ר הארי בינסוונגר, ד"ר אנדרו ברנשטיין, ד"ר אונקר גתה ואח'.Featuring never before released material from Ayn Rand... about politics!Most people have no idea what the United States represents. Ayn Rand did grasp America’s political essence down to its roots. World-famous as the author of Atlas Shrugged, Rand emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1926 at the age of twenty-one. Upon her arrival, she discovered that the collectivist politics of Russia, and Europe in general, were taking hold in America.An early effort to fight this trend was Rand’s Textbook of Americanism, which she began writing in 1946 but was left unfinished. Until now.Seventy-two years later, A New Textbook of The Politics of Ayn Rand addresses the questions she did not answer then, building on her insights to illuminate Americanism and its present-day application.Featuring Rand’s full 1946 work plus essays from the New Intellectuals, including Leonard Peikoff, and never-before-published discussions with Ayn Rand.Rand once called the United States “the only moral country in the history of the world.” A New Textbook of Americanism explores the reasons for her judgment.

262 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism.

Fiction of this better author and philosopher developed a system that she named. Educated, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early initially duds and two Broadway plays, Rand achieved fame. In 1957, she published Atlas Shrugged , her best-selling work.

Rand advocated reason and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism. She condemned the immoral initiation of force and supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system, based on recognizing individual rights, including private property. Often associated with the modern movement in the United States, Rand opposed and viewed anarchism. In art, she promoted romantic realism. She sharply criticized most philosophers and their traditions with few exceptions.

Books of Rand sold more than 37 million copies. From literary critics, her fiction received mixed reviews with more negative reviews for her later work. Afterward, she turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy, published her own periodicals, and released several collections of essays until her death in 1982.

After her death, her ideas interested academics, but philosophers generally ignored or rejected her and argued that her approach and work lack methodological rigor. She influenced some right conservatives. The movement circulates her ideas to the public and in academic settings.