A Companion to Ayn RandAllan Gotthelf, Gregory Salmieri John Wiley & Sons, 18. dets 2015 - 544 pages The first volume to offer a comprehensive scholarly treatment of Rand’s entire corpus (including her novels, her philosophical essays, and her analysis of the events of her times), this Companion provides vital orientation and context for scholars and educated readers grappling with a controversial and understudied thinker whose enduring influence on American (and world) culture is increasingly recognized.
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Contents
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The Act of Valuing and the Objectivity of Values | 49 |
The Morality of Life | 73 |
A Being of SelfMade Soul | 105 |
Selfishness and Sacrifice | 130 |
Rands Social Philosophy | 159 |
A Radical for Capitalism | 187 |
The Objectivist Epistemology | 272 |
Ayn Rands Approach to | 321 |
Ayn Rands Evolving View of Friedrich Nietzsche | 343 |
Ayn Rands Political and Cultural Commentary | 351 |
Art and the Needs of a Conceptual Consciousness | 405 |
Rands Literary Romanticism | 426 |
The Benevolent Universe Premise and the Heroic | 453 |
Annotated Bibliography of Primary and QuasiPrimary Sources | 463 |
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