Bibliography of Ayn Rand and Objectivism

This is a bibliography for Ayn Rand and Objectivism. Objectivism is a philosophical system initially developed in the 20th century by Rand.

Works by Rand

The lists below provide information on Rand's major works and collections. Where there are multiple editions, the primary information listed is for the first regular trade edition, with notes following about other editions if they involve revisions or additions to the content. For dramatic works, date of first production is used instead of date of first publication. Individual essays, short stories and other short items are not listed separately, but most are reproduced in the items below.

Fiction

First edition cover of Anthem

Novels and short stories

  • Ideal (written in 1934, published in 2015). NAL. ISBN 0451475550.
  • We the Living (1936). New York: Macmillan. Revised edition published by Random House in 1959. 60th anniversary edition published by New American Library in 1996, includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, ISBN 0-525-94054-5.
  • Anthem (1938). London: Cassell and Company. Revised edition published by Pamphleteers in 1946. 50th anniversary edition published by Dutton in 1995, includes the revised edition text plus a facsimile of the first edition, ISBN 0-525-94015-4.
  • The Fountainhead (1943). New York: Bobbs-Merrill. 25th anniversary edition published by New American Library in 1971, includes a new introduction by Rand. 50th anniversary edition published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1993, includes an afterword by Leonard Peikoff, ISBN 0-451-17512-3.
  • Atlas Shrugged (1957). New York: Random House. 35th anniversary edition published by Dutton in 1992, includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff, ISBN 0-525-93418-9.
  • The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction (1984). Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-453-00465-2. Expanded second edition published in 2005, ISBN 0-451-21465-X.

Drama

  • Night of January 16th (1934). Stage play. Produced in Los Angeles as Woman on Trial, then on Broadway as Night of January 16th. Player's book and director's manuscript with edits by Nathaniel Edward Reeid published in 1936. Revised version by Rand published by The World Publishing in 1968.
  • The Unconquered (1940). Stage adaptation of We the Living. Two versions of the script, edited by Robert Mayhew, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014
  • Love Letters (1945). Screenplay.
  • You Came Along (1945). Screenplay, co-written with Robert Smith.
  • The Fountainhead (1949). Screenplay adaptation of her own novel.
  • Ideal (1989). New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-451-47555-0. Stage play, published in The Early Ayn Rand prior to first production.
  • Three Plays (2005). Richard E. Ralston, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-451-21466-8. Anthology of plays, including Night of January 16th, Ideal, and Think Twice.

Non-fiction books

Paperback cover of Philosophy: Who Needs It
  • Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982). Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: Bobbs-Merrill. ISBN 0-672-52725-1.
  • The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (1989). Leonard Peikoff, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-453-00634-5. Includes essays by Leonard Peikoff and Peter Schwartz.
  • The Ayn Rand Column: Written for the Los Angeles Times (1991). Peter Schwartz, ed. Oceanside, California: Second Renaissance Books. ISBN 1-56114-099-6. Expanded second edition published by Second Renaissance Books in 1998, ISBN 1-56114-292-1. A collection of twenty-six newspaper columns that Rand wrote for the Los Angeles Times from 1962 on, as well as six essays (with an additional three in the revised edition).
  • Ayn Rand's Marginalia: Her Critical Comments on the Writings of Over 20 Authors (1995). Robert Mayhew, ed. New Milford, Connecticut: Second Renaissance Books. ISBN 1-56114-250-6
  • Letters of Ayn Rand (1995). Michael S. Berliner, ed. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-93946-6. Includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff.
  • Journals of Ayn Rand (1997). David Harriman, ed. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-94370-6. Includes a foreword by Leonard Peikoff.
  • The Ayn Rand Reader (1999) Gary Hull and Leonard Peikoff, eds. New York: Plume. ISBN 0-452-28040-0.
  • Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1999). Peter Schwartz, ed. New York: Meridian. ISBN 0-452-01184-1. Revised edition of Rand's earlier book, The New Left, and includes essays by Schwartz.
  • Russian Writings on Hollywood (1999). Michael S. Berliner, ed.; Dina Garmong, trans. Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press. ISBN 0-9625336-3-7. Reproduces and translates two booklets previously published in Russia without Rand's knowledge.
  • Why Businessmen Need Philosophy (1999). Richard E. Ralston, ed. Los Angeles: Ayn Rand Institute Press. ISBN 0-9625336-2-9. Includes essays by Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, Edwin A. Locke, John Ridpath, Richard M. Salsman, and Jaana Woiceshyn.
  • The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (2000). Tore Boeckmann, ed. New York: Plume. ISBN 0-452-28154-7. Includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff.
  • The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (2001). Robert Mayhew, ed. New York: Plume. ISBN 0-452-28231-4. Includes an introduction by Peter Schwartz.
  • Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A (2005). Robert Mayhew, ed. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-451-21665-2.

Periodicals edited by Ayn Rand

  • The Objectivist Newsletter. Vols. 1–4. 1962–1965. Co-edited with Nathaniel Branden.
  • The Objectivist. Vols. 5–10. 1966–1971. Co-edited with Nathaniel Branden through the April 1968 issue (Volume 7, Issue 4), then solely by Rand. Volume numbering carried over from The Objectivist Newsletter.
  • The Ayn Rand Letter. Vols. 1–4. 1971–1976.

Books about Rand or Objectivism

The books listed below are either entirely about Ayn Rand/Objectivism or contain multiple relevant chapters/essays. The main body of the list consists of books about Objectivist ideas published by academic, commercial or institutional presses. A special subsection lists books about Rand's life and writing. For books with a single relevant chapter or essay, see the list of other works below.

Biography and literary analysis

The books below focus on Ayn Rand's life or her literary works.

Other works about Rand or Objectivism

The works listed below include articles, pamphlets, individual chapters of books, and materials in non-print media. Articles reproduced in books listed above are not included on this list.

  • Aune, James Arnt (2001). "Checking Ayn Rand's Premises (or, The Revenge of the Nerds)". Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 1-57230-598-3.
  • Barry, Norman P. (1987). "Ayn Rand and Egoism". On Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-00243-2. OCLC 14134854.
  • Branden, Nathaniel (Fall 1984). "The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand: A Personal Statement". Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 24 (4): 39–64. doi:10.1177/0022167884244004. S2CID 144772216. Archived from the original on July 22, 2009. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
  • Cox, Stephen (Winter 1986). "Ayn Rand: Theory versus Creative Life" (PDF). Journal of Libertarian Studies. 8 (1): 19–29.
  • Den Uyl, Douglas & Rasmussen, Douglas (April 1978). "Nozick On the Randian Argument". The Personalist. 59: 184–205.
  • Efron, Robert (Autumn 1967). "Biology Without Consciousness – And Its Consequences". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 2 (1).
  • Forman, Frank (1989). "Ayn Rand and Natural Rights". The Metaphysics of Liberty. Theory and Decision Library, Series A. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-0080-7.
  • Gordon, Philip (Autumn 1977). "The Extroflective Hero: A Look at Ayn Rand". Journal of Popular Culture. 10 (4): 701–10. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1977.1004_701.x.
  • Hessen, Robert (1999). "Objectivist, 1962–1976". In Lora, Ronald & Henry, William Longton (eds.). The Conservative Press in Twentieth-Century America. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 349–56. ISBN 0-313-21390-9. OCLC 40481045.
  • Hicks, Stephen (Winter 2003). "Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics" (PDF). Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy. 3 (1): 1–26. Based on a lecture given to the Ayn Rand Society at the American Philosophical Association on December 29, 1995.
  • Hospers, John:
    • "Memories of Ayn Rand"
    • "Conversations With Ayn Rand" Part 1 by John Hospers (Originally published in Liberty, 1987)
    • Part 2 (Originally published in Liberty, 1987)
  • Kelley, David (1996). Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence. Poughkeepsie, NY: The Objectivist Center. ISBN 1-57724-000-6.
  • —————— (1999). A Theory of Abstraction. Poughkeepsie, NY: The Objectivist Center. ISBN 1-57724-062-6.
  • —————— (2008). "Objectivism". The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 363–64. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n221. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.
  • Machan, Tibor (April 1977). "Nozick and Rand on Property Rights". The Personalist. 58: 192–95.
  • Nozick, Robert (Spring 1971). "On the Randian Argument". The Personalist. 52: 282–304. Reprinted in Nozick, Socratic Puzzles, 1997, ISBN 0-674-81653-6.
  • O'Neil, Patrick M. (Spring 1983). "Ayn Rand and the Is–Ought Problem" (PDF). Journal of Libertarian Studies. 7 (1): 81–99.
  • Rasmussen, Douglas (1982). "Essentialism, Values and Rights: The Objectivist Case for the Free Society". In Machan, Tibor R. (ed.). The Libertarian Reader. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8476-7061-9.
  • Menaul, Christopher, director (1998) The Passion of Ayn Rand. (Dramatisation of Barbara Branden's The Passion of Ayn Rand; released as a motion picture in 1999; leading players: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Peter Fonda)
  • Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (1996). Ayn Rand: Her Life and Thought. Poughkeepsie, NY: The Atlas Society. ISBN 1-57724-031-6.
  • ——————————— (Fall 1998). "A Renaissance in Rand Scholarship" (PDF). Reason Papers. 23: 132–59.
  • ——————————— (2008). "Rand, Ayn (1905–1982)". The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 412–15. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n254. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.
  • Smith, George H. (2000). "Belief and Knowledge: Ayn Rand's Theory of Knowledge". Why Atheism?. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-268-4.
  • Stockton, Sharon (2006). "Engineering Fascism: Ayn Rand, Ezra Pound and the Virile Hero". The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-century Literature. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press Press. pp. 48–70. ISBN 0-8142-1018-X.
  • Thomas, William (2003). "Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism". In Frost, Bryan-Paul & Sikkenga, Jeffrey (eds.). History of American Political Thought. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-0623-6.

Objectivist periodicals

  • The Intellectual Activist (1979–2010). Peter Schwartz editor (1979–1991), Robert Stubblefield editor (1991–1996), Robert Tracinski editor (1996–2010).[1] Published fortnightly to September 1991; then bi-monthly to November 1998; monthly thereafter.
  • The Objectivist Forum. Vols 1–8, 1980–1987. Harry Binswanger, editor and publisher; Leonard Peikoff, consulting editor. Published bi-monthly.
  • Full Context. Vols 1–13, 1988–2000. Karen (Reedstrom) Minto, editor. Published monthly to June 1998; bi-monthly thereafter.
  • Objectivity. Vols 1–2, 1990–1998. Stephen C. Boydstun, editor. Published occasionally.
  • The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (1999–2023). R.W. Bradford (until his death in 2005), Stephen D. Cox, Roderick Long (replacing Bradford), and Chris Matthew Sciabarra, editors. Published semi-annually.
  • The Undercurrent (2005– ). Various student editors. Published occasionally.
  • The Objective Standard (2006– ). Craig Biddle, editor and publisher. Published quarterly.

References

  • Gladstein, Mimi Reisel (1999). The New Ayn Rand Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30321-5.
  • Perinn, Vincent L. (1990). Ayn Rand: First Descriptive Bibliography. Rockville, Maryland: Quill & Brush. ISBN 0-9610494-8-0.
  1. ^ Tracinski, Robert. "The Tracinski Letter: About". Retrieved September 26, 2012.

External links

  • Chronology & Bibliography of Ayn Rand's Life & Works – Detailed chronological listing of Rand's articles, books, lectures and other works
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