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ISBN 10: 3030530752 ISBN 13: 9783030530754

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Riassunto

<div><p><i>Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts</i>&nbsp;offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand’s works and her wider Objectivist philosophy. While Rand’s texts are often dismissed out of hand by those hostile to the ideology promoted within them, these essays argue instead that they need to be taken seriously and analysed in detail. Rand’s influential worldview does not tolerate uncertainty, relying as it does upon a notion of truth untroubled by doubt. In contrast, the contributors to this volume argue that any progressive response to Rand should resist the dubious comforts of a position of ethical or aesthetic purity, even as they&nbsp;challenge the reductive&nbsp;individualistic ideology&nbsp;promoted within her writing. Drawing on a range of sources and approaches from Psychoanalysis to The Gold Standard and from Hannah Arendt to Spiderman, these essays consider Rand’s works in the context of wider political, economic, and philosophical debates.</p><br></div>

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<b>Neil Cocks</b>&nbsp;is Associate Professor of Literary Perspective in the Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK. He is the author of&nbsp;<i>Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood</i>&nbsp;(Palgrave 2017) and&nbsp;<i>The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism&nbsp;</i>(Palgrave 2014).<p></p>

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<p><i>Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts</i>&nbsp;offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand’s works and her wider Objectivist philosophy. While Rand’s texts are often dismissed out of hand by those hostile to the ideology promoted within them, these essays argue instead that they need to be taken seriously and analysed in detail. Rand’s influential worldview does not tolerate uncertainty, relying as it does upon a notion of truth untroubled by doubt. In contrast, the contributors to this volume argue that any progressive response to Rand should resist the dubious comforts of a position of ethical or aesthetic purity, even as&nbsp;they&nbsp;challenge the reductive&nbsp;individualistic ideology&nbsp;promoted within her writing. Drawing on a range of sources and approaches from Psychoanalysis to The Gold Standard and from Hannah Arendt to Spiderman, these essays consider Rand’s works in the context of wider political, economic, and philosophical debates.</p>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030530752
• ISBN 13: 9783030530754
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 252
• Redattore: Cocks Neil
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