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AYN RAND RESEARCH SOURCES

Below is a brief bibliography of works by and about Ayn Rand or influenced by Rand. Some links are provided to individuals and organizations. These do not imply an endorsement of specific individuals and organizations by The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, or of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies by these individuals and organizations.  They are provided for reference purposes only.

Works by Ayn Rand

Fiction

Anthem

Atlas Shrugged

The Early Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead

Night of January 16th

We the Living

 

Non-Fiction

The Art of Fiction:  A Guide for Writers and Readers - Edited by Tore Boeckmann

The Art of Nonfiction:  A Guide for Writers and Readers - Edited by Robert Mayhew

The Ayn Rand Column - Edited by Peter Schwartz

The Ayn Rand Letter (1971-1976)

Ayn Rand's Marginalia:  Her Critical Comments on the Writings of Over 20 Authors - Edited by Robert Mayhew

The Ayn Rand Reader - Edited by Gary Hull and Leonard Peikoff

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

For the New Intellectual

Glossary of Objectivist Definitions - With additional entries by Leonard Peikoff and Harry Binswanger; Edited by Allison T. Kunze and Jean F. Moroney

The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age (pages)

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology - Expanded edition

Journals of Ayn Rand - Edited by David Harriman

Letters of Ayn Rand - Edited by Michael S. Berliner

The Objectivist (1966-1971)

The Objectivist Newsletter (1962-1965)

The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution  [Now in an expanded edition:   Return of the Primitive]

The Playboy Interview with A. Toffler

Philosophy: Who Needs It

The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature

Russian Writings on Hollywood - Edited by Michael S. Berliner

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

 

Audio and Video Sources

Interviews: Ayn Rand - Phil Donahue (video, vols. 1 & 2)

Interview:   Mike Wallace Interviews Ayn Rand

Interview:   Ayn Rand - Tom Snyder (video)

Interview:   Ayn Rand at the University of Michigan

Foreign Film:   We the Living (Italian film version, video)

 

Reference Guides

The Ayn Rand Lexicon - Edited by Harry Binswanger

The New Ayn Rand Companion, Revised and Expanded Edition - Mimi Reisel Gladstein

 

Rand-Influenced Resources (books, lectures, tapes, journals, etc.)

Aristos:  The Journal of Esthetics

ART Ideas

Bidinotto, Robert James:

    The Case for Cultural Optimism

    The GOP's Foreign Imports

    Criminal Justice? The Legal System Versus Individual Responsibility (2nd edition)   (edited by Bidinotto)

    Green Cathedrals: Modern Spiritual Poverty and the Rise of Environmentalism

    The Green Machine

    Oranized Individualism: Building the Objectivist Community

    The Value-Seeking Personality

    What Objectivists Must Learn From Religion

Binswanger, Harry:  The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts

Blumenthal, Allan and Joan Mitchell Blumenthal:  Inner Life

Bolick, Clint:  Equality: Recapturing an Individualist Principle

Branden, Barbara:   Principles of Efficient Thinking

Branden Nathaniel:

    The Art of Living Consciously:  The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life

    Basic Principles of Objectivism

    The Disowned Self

    Honoring the Self:  Personal Integrity and the Heroic Potentials of Human Nature

    The Literary Method of Ayn Rand

    The Moral Revolution in Atlas Shrugged

    Objectivism, Past & Future

    On Loving One's Life

    The Psychology of Romantic Love

    The Psychology of Self-Esteem:  A New Concept of Man's Psychological Nature

    Self-Esteem at Work

    The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

    Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life

    What Are Our Spiritual Needs?

    A Woman's Self-Esteem

Chase, Alston:  In A Dark Wood

The Daily Objectivist

The Free Radical

Full Context

Heinking, Mary:  Homeschooling

Hicks, Stephen

    Defending Shylock: Productive Work in Financial Markets

    Post-Modernism

    Readings for Logical Analysis

Hudgins, Ed:  New Patterns of Force: Modern Threats to Freedom

Hurd, Michael J. Effective Therapy

The Intellectual Activist

Kelley, David:

    The Art of Reasoning

    The Art of Reasoning (Instructor's Manual)

    Beauty and the Beast

    The Best Within Us

    Choosing Life

    The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand

    Evidence and Justification

    The Evidence of the Senses:  A Realist Theory of Perception

    The Foundations of Knowledge

    The Fountainhead:  A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration

    A Life of One's Own:  Individual Rights and the Welfare State

    The Nature of Free Will

    Objectivism: The Philosophy and the Movement

    Objectivism and the Struggle for Liberty

    A Philosophy for the 21st Century

    The Politics of Virtue

    The Primacy of Existence

    Readings for Logical Analysis

    Responsibility and Happiness

    Skepticism

    A Theory of Abstraction

    Universals and Induction

    Unrugged Individualism:  The Selfish Basis of Benevolence

    The Values of a Free Society

    What's Wrong With Welfare Rights?

Lakein, Alan:  How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life

Lepanto, Paul:  Return to Reason

Livingston, Ken:

    The Psychology of Belief: Why Religion Seems to Work

    Raising Good Kids

    Rationality and the Psychology of Abstraction

Madigan, Timothy:  Rational Rituals, or 'Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain'

Mayer, David:

    Antitrust vs. Capitalism

    The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson

    The Declaration of Independence as a Literary and Philosophical Work

    The Intellectual Foundations of American Constitutionalism

    Origins of the Constitution and Bill of Rights

    Philosophy and the Founders

    The Welfare State vs. The Constitution

McCloskey, Susan: 

    How To Read A Novel

    Odysseus, Jesus, and Dagny

    Was Shakespeare a Determinist?

    Why Johnny Can't, Like, Write

Moses, Stephen:   Rolling Back the Welfare State

The New Individualist

Newman, Raymond:  Sovereign

Peikoff, Leonard: 

    Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

    The Ominous Parallels:  The End of Freedom in America

Ralston, Richard E., editor:  Why Businessmen Need Philosophy

Reisman, George:  Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics

Smith, George:  Atheism:  The Case Against God

Smith, Tara:  Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality

Stossel, John:

    Greed!

    The Power of Belief

Tomlinson, Charles:  A View from My Stump

Walsh, George:

    The Enlightenment

    The Judeo-Christian Tradition

    Marxism: Philosophy and Political Ideology

    Protestant Fundamentalism

    Religion and Civilization

    The Role of Religion in History (hardcover)

    The Roots of Collectivism

York, Alexandra:  From The Fountainhead to the Future and Other Essays on Art and Excellence

 

Biographical, Cultural, and Critical Studies

Badhwar, Neera:  Is Virtue Only a Means to Happiness?

Baker, James:  Ayn Rand

Bernstein, Andrew:  Cliffsnotes to Rand's Anthem; The Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged

Branden, Barbara:  

    The Passion of Ayn Rand

    Who is Ayn Rand?:  An Analysis of the Novels of Ayn Rand - Barbara Branden and Nathaniel Branden

Branden, Nathaniel:

    Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand (audio)

    Judgment Day [now in a revised form as My Years with Ayn Rand]

    Love and Sex in the Philosophy of Ayn Rand (audio)

Cox, Stephen:   The Fountainhead:  A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration

    The Woman and the Dynamo:  Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America

Den Uyl, Douglas: 

    The Fountainhead: An American Novel

    The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand - Edited by Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen

Ellis, Albert:  Is Objectivism a Religion?

Erickson, Peter:  The Stance of Atlas:  An Examination of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Gladstein, Mimi Reisel:

    Atlas Shrugged: Manifesto of the Mind

    Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand - Edited by Gladstein and Sciabarra

Gotthelf, Allan:  On Ayn Rand

Long, Roderick:  Reason and Value:  Aristotle versus Rand

Machan, Tibor:  Ayn Rand

Merrill, Ronald E.:  The Ideas of Ayn Rand

Minsaas, Kirsti:  Structure & Meaning in Ayn Rand's Novels

O'Neill, William:  With Charity Toward None:  An Analysis of Ayn Rand's Philosophy

Paxton, Michael:  Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

Robbins, John W.:  Without a Prayer:  Ayn Rand and the Close of Her System

Sciabarra, Chris Matthew:

    A Renaissance in Rand Scholarship, Reason Papers (Fall 1998)

    Ayn Rand: Her Life & Thought

    Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation

    Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical

    Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand - Edited by Gladstein and Sciabarra

    Investigative Report:  In Search of the Rand Transcript, Liberty (October 1999)

    The Rand Transcript, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Fall 1999)

    The Rand Transcript Revisited, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Fall 2005)

    Total Freedom:  Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism

Smith, George:  Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies

Torres, Louis and Michelle Marder Kamhi What Art Is:  The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand

Tuccille, Jerome:  It Still Begins with Ayn Rand

Walker, Jeff:  The Ayn Rand Cult

Yang, Michael:  Reconsidering Ayn Rand

 

Organizations / Reference Centers

(no endorsement by---or of---The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies is implied)

The Atlas Society

The Ayn Rand Institute

The Ayn Rand Society - Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association

Enlightenment

Objectivist Blog Index

The Objectivist Center (formerly the Institute for Objectivist Studies; see also TOC's Index at The Objectivism Store)

The Objectivist Reference Center

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