Questioning Ayn Rand : subjectivity, political economy, and the arts / Neil Cocks, editor.
2020
PS3535.A547 Z84 2020
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Questioning Ayn Rand : subjectivity, political economy, and the arts / Neil Cocks, editor.
ISBN
9783030530730 (electronic book)
3030530736 (electronic book)
3030530728
9783030530723
3030530736 (electronic book)
3030530728
9783030530723
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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PS3535.A547 Z84 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.52
Summary
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 they need to be taken seriously and analysed in detail. Rands 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 challenge the reductive individualistic ideology 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 Rands works in the context of wider political, economic, and philosophical debates.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cocks, Neil, 1971- editor.
Series
Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics.
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