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Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand

Author : Mimi Reisel Gladstein
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043296
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand written by Mimi Reisel Gladstein and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloemlezing van bijdragen vanuit feministisch perspectief over het werk van de Amerikaanse filosofe en schrijfster Ayn Rand. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Ayn Rand: the reluctant feminist / Barbara Branden; Ayn Rand and feminism: an unlikely alliance / Mimi Reisel Gladstein; On 'Atlas shrugged' / Judith Wilt; Ayn Rand: a traitor to her own sex / Susan Brownmiller; Psyching out Ayn Rand / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison; Reflections on Ayn Rand / Camille Paglia; Ayn Rand and feminist synthesis: rereading 'We the living' / Valérie Loiret-Prunet; Skyscrapers, supermodels, and strange attractors: Ayn Rand, Naomi Wolf, and the third wave aesthos / Barry Vacker; Looking through a paradigm darkly / Wendy McElroy; The romances of Ayn Rand / Judith Wilt; Who is Dagny Taggart?: the epic hero/ine in disguise / Karen Michalson; Was Ayn Rand a feminist? / Nathaniel Branden; Ayn Rand and the concept of feminism: a reclamation / Joan Kennedy Taylor; Ayn Rand's philosophy of individualism: a feminist psychologist's perspective / Sharon Presley; Ayn Rand: the women who would not be president / Susan Love Brown; Rereading Rand on gender in the light of Paglia / Robert Sheaffer; Sex and gender through an egoist lens: masculinity and femininity in the philosophy of Ayn Rand / Diana Mertz Brickell; The female hero: a Randian-feminist synthesis / Thomas Gramstad; Fluff and granite: rereading Rand's camp feminist aesthetics / Melissa Jane Hardie.

Mean Girl

Author : Lisa Duggan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967798
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Mean Girl written by Lisa Duggan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Astute."—New York Times Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand’s philosophy of selfishness, Mean Girl illuminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.

Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271061359
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes written by Nancy J. Hirschmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophical approaches and a range of feminist perspectives, this interdisciplinary collection aims to appeal to an audience of Hobbes scholars and nonspecialists alike. As a theorist whose trademark is a compelling argument for absolute sovereignty, Hobbes may seem initially to have little to offer twenty-first-century feminist thought. Yet, as the contributors to this collection demonstrate, Hobbesian political thought provides fertile ground for feminist inquiry. Indeed, in engaging Hobbes, feminist theory engages with what is perhaps the clearest and most influential articulation of the foundational concepts and ideas associated with modernity: freedom, equality, human nature, authority, consent, coercion, political obligation, and citizenship. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Joanne Boucher, Karen Detlefsen, Karen Green, Wendy Gunther-Canada, Jane S. Jaquette, S. A. Lloyd, Su Fang Ng, Carole Pateman, Gordon Schochet, Quentin Skinner, and Susanne Sreedhar.

The Virtue of Selfishness

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101137223
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Virtue of Selfishness written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1964-11-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy. Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works—Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged—have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her famous novels is her philosophy, a new morality—the ethics of rational self-interest—that offers a robust challenge to altruist-collectivist thought. Known as Objectivism, her divisive philosophy holds human life—the life proper to a rational being—as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature. In this series of essays, Rand asks why man needs morality in the first place, and arrives at an answer that redefines a new code of ethics based on the virtue of selfishness. More Than 1 Million Copies Sold!

Ayn Rand

Author : Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271063742
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Ayn Rand written by Chris Matthew Sciabarra and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (1905–1982) is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century. Yet, despite the sale of over thirty million copies of her works, there have been few serious scholarly examinations of her thought. Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical provides a comprehensive analysis of the intellectual roots and philosophy of this controversial thinker. It has been nearly twenty years since the original publication of Chris Sciabarra’s Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical. Those years have witnessed an explosive increase in Rand sightings across the social landscape: in books on philosophy, politics, and culture; in film and literature; and in contemporary American politics, from the rise of the Tea Party to recent presidential campaigns. During this time Sciabarra continued to work toward the reclamation of the dialectical method in the service of a radical libertarian politics, culminating in his book Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Penn State, 2000). In this new edition of Ayn Rand, Chris Sciabarra adds two chapters that present in-depth analysis of the most complete transcripts to date documenting Rand’s education at Petrograd State University. A new preface places the book in the context of Sciabarra’s own research and the recent expansion of interest in Rand’s philosophy. Finally, this edition includes a postscript that answers a recent critic of Sciabarra’s historical work on Rand. Shoshana Milgram, Rand’s biographer, has tried to cast doubt on Rand’s own recollections of having studied with the famous Russian philosopher N. O. Lossky. Sciabarra shows that Milgram’s analysis fails to cast doubt on Rand’s recollections—or on Sciabarra’s historical thesis.

Selfish Women

Author : Lisa Downing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000020614
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selfish Women written by Lisa Downing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proceeds from a single and very simple observation: throughout history, and up to the present, women have received a clear message that we are not supposed to prioritize ourselves. Indeed, the whole question of "self" is a problem for women – and a problem that issues from a wide range of locations, including, in some cases, feminism itself. When women espouse discourses of self-interest, self-regard, and selfishness, they become illegible. This is complicated by the commodification of the self in the recent Western mode of economic and political organization known as "neoliberalism," which encourages a focus on self-fashioning that may not be identical with self-regard or self-interest. Drawing on figures from French, US, and UK contexts, including Rachilde, Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher, and Lionel Shriver, and examining discourses from psychiatry, media, and feminism with the aim of reading against the grain of multiple orthodoxies, this book asks how revisiting the words and works of selfish women of modernity can assist us in understanding our fraught individual and collective identities as women in contemporary culture. And can women with politics that are contrary to the interests of the collective teach us anything about the value of rethinking the role of the individual? This book is an essential read for those with interests in cultural theory, feminist theory, and gender politics.

Anthem

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Ayn Rand Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 0996010130
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Anthem written by Ayn Rand and published by Ayn Rand Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About this Edition This 2021-2022 Digital Student Edition of Ayn Rand's Anthem was created for teachers and students receiving free novels from the Ayn Rand Institute, and includes a historic Q&A with Ayn Rand that cannot be found in any other edition of Anthem. In this Q&A from 1979, Rand responds to questions about Anthem sent to her by a high school classroom. About Anthem Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in the world of Anthem; personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him — questions that ultimately lead him to uncover the mystery behind his society’s downfall and to find the key to a future of freedom and progress. Anthem anticipates the theme of Rand’s first best seller, The Fountainhead, which she stated as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul.”

The Early Ayn Rand

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101137673
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Early Ayn Rand written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction—including her previously unpublished short story The Night King—ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead.

A Companion to Ayn Rand

Author : Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119099021
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ayn Rand written by Allan Gotthelf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The first publication to provide an in-depth scholarly treatment ranging over the whole of Rand’s corpus Provides informed contextual analysis for scholars in a variety of disciplines Presents original research on unpublished material and drafts from the Rand archives in California Features insightful and fair-minded interpretations of Rand’s controversial positions

The Romantic Manifesto

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110113772X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Manifesto written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1971-10-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important achievements of our time.

On Ayn Rand

Author : Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On Ayn Rand written by Allan Gotthelf and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the philosophical thoughts of Ayn Rand with overviews of her life and intellectual development, then covers her objectivist epistemology, giving attention to both her theory of perception and to her original theory of concepts. Other subjects covered include objectivist ethics, Rand's moral theory and politics, and her aesthetics.

Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell

Author : Alice Sowaal
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271077581
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell written by Alice Sowaal and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often referred to as a proto-feminist, early modern English philosopher and rhetorician Mary Astell was a pious supporter of monarchy who wrote about gender equality at a time when society tightly constrained female agency. This diverse collection of essays situates her ideas in feminist, historical, and philosophical contexts. Focusing on Astell’s work and thought, this book explores the degree to which she can be considered a “feminist” in light of her adherence to Cartesianism, Christian theology, and Tory politics. The contributors explore the philosophical underpinnings of Astell’s outspoken advocacy for the autonomy and education of women; examine the intricacies underlying her theories of power, community, and female resistance to unlawful authority; and reveal the similarities between her own philosophy of gender and sexual politics and feminist theorizing today. A broad-ranging look at one of the most important female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this volume will be especially valuable to students and scholars of feminist history and philosophy and the early modern era. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Kathleen A. Ahearn, Jacqueline Broad, Karen Detlefsen, Susan Paterson Glover, Marcy P. Lascano, Elisabeth Hedrick Moser, Christine Mason Sutherland, and Nancy Tuana.

Total Freedom

Author : Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271083719
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Total Freedom written by Chris Matthew Sciabarra and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon his previous books about Marx, Hayek, and Rand, Total Freedom completes what Lingua Franca has called Sciabarra’s "epic scholarly quest" to reclaim dialectics, usually associated with the Marxian left, as a methodology that can revivify libertarian thought. Part One surveys the history of dialectics from the ancient Greeks through the Austrian school of economics. Part Two investigates in detail the work of Murray Rothbard as a leading modern libertarian, in whose thought Sciabarra finds both dialectical and nondialectical elements. Ultimately, Sciabarra aims for a dialectical-libertarian synthesis, highlighting the need (not sufficiently recognized in liberalism) to think of the "totality" of interconnections in a dynamic system as the way to ensure human freedom while avoiding "totalitarianism" (such as resulted from Marxism).

The Fountainhead

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143194623
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Fountainhead written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand’s own notes on the making of The Fountainhead. As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a hero—and about those who try to destroy him.

Reclaiming the Mainstream

Author : Joan Kennedy Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming the Mainstream written by Joan Kennedy Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

The Journals of Ayn Rand

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101137215
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Journals of Ayn Rand written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From Journals of Ayn Rand, we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher, and of the enduring legacy she has left us.Rand comes vibrantly to life as an untried screenwriter in Hollywood, creating stories that reflect her youthful vision of the world. We see her painful memories of communist Russia and her struggles to convey them in We the Living. Most fascinating is the intricate, step-by-step process through which she created the plots and characters of her two masterworks, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and the years of painstaking research that imbued the novels with their powerful authenticity. Complete with reflections on her legendary screenplay concerning the making of the atomic bomb and tantalizing descriptions of projects cut short by her death, Journals of Ayn Rand illuminates the mind and heart of an extraordinary woman as no biography or memoir ever could. On these vivid pages, Ayn Rand lives.

Ayn Rand Cult

Author : Jeff Walker
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812693906
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Ayn Rand Cult written by Jeff Walker and published by Open Court. This book was released on 1998-12-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explains the origin of the ideas of Ayn Rand and exposes "Objectivism as a classic cult, unusual because of its overt emphasis on self-interest, rationality, and atheism, but typical of cults in its guru-worship, thought control, trial and excommuciation of deviants, and hostility to existing society."--Cover.