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Introducing Ayn Rand
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Eamonn Butler’s Ayn Rand: An Introduction is a short, well-organized, and easy-to-read guide to Ayn Rand’s key ideas. This primer focuses on the essentials, avoids academic details, and is structured around the major elements of her philosophy of Objectivism. Butler’s book is a fine, brief introduction to Rand’s thought.
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Abstract
Eamonn Butler’s Ayn Rand: An Introduction is a short, well-organized, and easy-to-read guide to Ayn Rand’s key ideas.
This primer focuses on the essentials, avoids academic details, and is structured around the major elements of her philosophy of Objectivism.
Butler’s book is a fine, brief introduction to Rand’s thought.
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