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Tables of Contents for The Ayn Rand Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Leonard Peikoff
Editor's Preface
xiii
Gary Hull
Part One: The Fountainhead
Roark vs. Keating
3
40
The Quarry Sequence
43
16
The Stoddard Trial
59
12
Part Two: Ethics
Selfishness
71
23
From Roark's Speech
71
8
Why ``Selfishness''?
79
5
The Objectivist Ethics
84
10
Anti-Altruism
94
31
From Galt's Speech
94
9
Moral Inflation
103
11
The Age of Envy
114
11
Man, the Rational Animal
125
166
Apollo 11
125
14
Apollo and Dionysus
139
5
How Does One Lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society?
144
7
Part Three: Atlas Shrugged
Rearden's Anniversary Party
151
40
The John Galt Line
191
26
The Abandoned Factory
217
22
Directive 10-289
239
20
The Tunnel Disaster
259
27
Atlantis
286
5
Part Four: Basic Philosophy
Reason and Reality
291
15
Axioms of Objectivism
291
7
Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World
298
8
Mind and Body
306
36
Attila and the Witch Doctor
306
16
The Meaning of Sex
322
3
Of Living Death
325
15
On Emotions, Including Love
340
2
Theory of Concepts
342
27
Concept-Formation
342
10
Consciousness and Identity
352
4
Abstraction from Abstractions
356
4
Induction
360
9
Part Five: Early Novels and Politics
The Individual vs. the State
369
49
Anthem
369
14
We the Living
383
35
The Purge
383
21
The Profiteers on Collectivism
404
14
Capitalism vs. Collectivism
418
33
What Is Capitalism?
418
14
Man's Rights
432
7
Collectivized ``Rights''
439
6
On Utilitarianism
445
6
Part Six: Romanticism and the Benevolent Universe
Romanticism
451
26
The Goal of My Writing
451
9
What Is Romanticism?
460
17
The Benevolent Universe
477
17
Introduction to Calumet ``K''
478
4
Letter to a Fan
482
2
Don't Let It Go
484
10
Recommended Readings
494