Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy. Her unique vision of a
world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his own good is skillfully developed
and illustrated in her most famous novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. But
Rand's first novel, We the Living, a lesser-known but no less important book, offers an early
form of the author's nascent philosophy—the philosophy Rand later called Objectivism. In
the second edition, Robert Mayhew once again brings together pre-eminent scholars of …

In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the
historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to
the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany). Written in 1937, published in
1938 in Britain, and subsequently in a revised form in the United States in 1946, Anthem
investigates the importance of the ego and freedom, and the individual against the state.
Editor Robert Mayhew has collected a variety of essays dealing with such topics including …