Questioning Ayn Rand : subjectivity, political economy, and the arts /
Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rands works and her wider Objectivist philosophy. While Rands texts are often dismissed out of hand by those hostile to the ideology promoted within them, these essays argue instead that t...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: uncanny Rand, Neil Cocks
- Chapter 2: Reading Ayn Rand psychoanalytically: ethics, libertarian and otherwise, Ian Parker
- Chapter 3: Psychologization, what it is and what it is not: Objectivism, psychology, and Silicon Valley, Jan de Vos
- Chapter 4: Narrated Rand: HUAC, engraved invitations, and the real of sexual difference, Neil Cocks
- Chapter 5: The American mythology of individualism: Emerson, Ayn Rand, and the Romantic child, Kristina West
- Chapter 6: Selfish cinema: sex, heroism, and control in adaptations of Ayn Rand for the screen, Lisa Downing
- Chapter 7: At home with Marx and Rand: returning man in prehistory, Bonnie McGill
- Chapter 8: The New Left: Rand, pedagogy, and 'the cure, Jerome Cox- Strong
- Chapter 9: Topographies of Liberal Thought: Rand and Arendt and Race, Stephen Thomson
- Chapter 10: '"Oh, that's Francisco's private joke" [...]: Atlas Shrugged, the gold standard, and utopia, Neil Cocks.