by Ayn Rand · Penguin Publishing Group · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780451149169
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«The Romantic Manifesto» is Ayn Rand's essay collection on art and literature, published by Penguin in paperback (208 pages, in English).
The work gathers essays in which Ayn Rand sets out her philosophy of art and the purpose it serves in human life. She defends Romanticism against Naturalism in literature, analyses the relationship between art and cognition, and comments on the artist's task, with references to writers such as Victor Hugo and Dostoyevsky.
Revised edition, published in 1971, with the subtitle «A Philosophy of Literature»; includes the essay «Arte y cognición».
For readers interested in the philosophy of art, Objectivist aesthetics, and literary criticism.
Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.
