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Den Uyl calls "The Fountainhead" a "philosophical novel", meaning that it addresses philosophical ideas and offers a specific philosophical viewpoint about those ideas. In the years following the publication of "The Fountainhead", Rand developed a philosophical system that she called Objectivism. "The Fountainhead" does not contain this explicit philosophy, and Rand did not write the novel primarily to convey philosophical ideas. Nonetheless, Rand included three excerpts from the novel in "For the New Intellectual", a 1961 collection of her writings that she described as an outline of Objectivism. Peikoff used many quotes and examples from "The Fountainhead" in his 1991 book on Rand's philosophy, "".