The Journals of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand (EPUB)

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Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From Journals of Ayn Rand, we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher, and of the enduring legacy she has left us.Rand comes vibrantly to life as an untried screenwriter in Hollywood, creating stories that reflect her youthful vision of the world. We see her painful memories of communist Russia and her struggles to convey them in We the Living. Most fascinating is the intricate, step-by-step process through which she created the plots and characters of her two masterworks, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and the years of painstaking research that imbued the novels with their powerful authenticity. Complete with reflections on her legendary screenplay concerning the making of the atomic bomb and tantalizing descriptions of projects cut short by her death, Journals of Ayn Rand illuminates the mind and heart of an extraordinary woman as no biography or memoir ever could. On these vivid pages, Ayn Rand lives.

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⭐Fascinating insight into a truly unique mind. These journals show the progression of Ayn Rand’s thinking and the beginnings of her later polished conclusions. The writings cover her philosophical ideas as well as the background details for her various novels and span all the way back until her early twenties. Her fierce independence and unwavering focus on reality are apparent in all of her writings. These journals also demonstrate her ideas were not completed when she first started writing, rather they progressed and were steadily built throughout her life. The airtight logic demonstrated in her non-fiction works was an accumulation of years of thinking. There is also a lot of her thoughts on psychology and what leads different people to different conclusions and actions. I found all of the sections to be riveting.There are some negative reviews based on these journals purportedly being incorrectly edited. I don’t know any details of this but find it extremely unlikely given the fact there is a foreword by Leonard Peikoff and David Harriman was a very reputable source at the time of this publication, so I would not put much merit into those claims if you are considering reading these.

⭐I have read almost all the book, and honestly this is my first thought Ayn Rand is a remarkable complete writer, even though you haven’t completeher reading writing, you assert the incoming of values, integration, and creation of new love instantly. Her intelligence is always in command and resolving with clarity, or convey on a new assumption to express the philosophic contest. Rand brought a new open horizons to future to come, andresolving pernicious plot I was so content to read her perception of Her Journals that, I was feeling on top of everything, felling sorecharge of energy that facilitated approach life and have more confidence, motivation to reach conclusions that, things were not intimidating like before..The Journals was e great inspiration and understanding of the greatness of Rand. There are reflections and conclusion that Rand philosophy isa new open for new philosophic arena of the future to come. The new vision and Objectivism, create additional structure for society, and a greatamount of cultural education to explored and developed for the goodness od human being and society as well.

⭐I bought this book to shut up all the people that were talking nonsense about Ayn Rand. It’s a great resource to refer to when you are trying to make a point about Rand. The seller was honest and fast.

⭐Can’t get enough of Ayn Rand, the greatest mind of the 20th century.

⭐My girlfriend bought this and I just noticed the ugly face on the cover. The book might be nice although. 🙂

⭐The JOURNALS OF AYN RAND is an important addition to the large body of work by and about Ayn Rand. This work is put out by Rand’s Estate, which worked with scholars associated with the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI). JOURNALS contains an introduction and notes by editor David Harriman which are, for the most part, helpful. There is a forward by Leonard Peikoff which is pretty much what you would expect.Rand wrote out her notes in complete sentences, so there is a good deal of lengthy philosophical and other matters contained in this book. One of the best parts her notes for a work Rand started after THE FOUNTAINHEAD, called THE MORAL BASIS OF INDIVIDUALISM. It’s over 60 pages long. Particularly revealing are the notes for an early story called “The Little Street” which is highly Nietzschian in tone, as even the editor had to admit. (Peikoff’s forward attempts to downplay the influence of Nietzsche on Rand’s thought.)One thing I found interesting is that most of the journal entries are before 1955. However, Rand didn’t start writing philosophical essays until after that. JOURNALS includes some notes for the articles that make up INTRODUCTION TO OBJECTIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY, but that’s about it. Editor Harriman tells us that Rand made only brief outlines for her philosophical essays, and felt that publishing them wouldn’t add much. I would like to take Harriman’s word for it. But was there no benefit to publishing these outlines? This might be a minor point, but for the fact that there are reasons to question the accuracy of the JOURNALS. Prior to this book, some small portions of Rand’s journals were published by ARI-associated scholars. In an entry dated January 20, 1947, the previously published version contains a reference to Albert J. Nock, which is left out in the version published in JOURNALS. There are other changes as well, such as the removal of “duty” in a passage on ethics. [Sciabarra,”Bowlderizing Ayn Rand”, Liberty, Sept. 1998.] This isn’t a big deal to fans and casual students, but to scholars attempting to sort out the influence of other thinkers on Rand’s thought, it is a big problem.

⭐I am an Objectivist and I enjoy very much reading her journals

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